Storage Engineer Contracts in London

Storage Engineer
England > London

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 384 447
Rank change year-on-year +41 +63 +123
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 10 7 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.039% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.042% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 27
10th Percentile £473 £502 £415
25th Percentile £500 £504 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £663 £582 £650
90th Percentile £775 £617 -
England median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Storage Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in London

Storage Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Storage Engineer in London

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in London

Storage Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Storage Engineer in London

Storage Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +5 2 £750 +19.62%
Storage Engineer
England

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Hitachi
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Dell
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) F5
3 4 (40.00%) Ansible
4 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (30.00%) FCoE
4 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (30.00%) CentOS
4 3 (30.00%) iSCSI
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) EMC
4 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (20.00%) EMC Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Legal
5 2 (20.00%) JIRA

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 3 (30.00%) FCoE
2 3 (30.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) CentOS
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (20.00%) Internal Audit
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) EMC Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Avamar
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Hitachi
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 4 (40.00%) F5
3 3 (30.00%) EMC
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (20.00%) Pure Storage
5 1 (10.00%) VMware