Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Storage Engineer
England > London

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in London is £519, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 371 398
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 7 10 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.051% 0.064% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.068% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 17
10th Percentile £371 £470 £367
25th Percentile £402 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +2.62% -1.41%
75th Percentile £606 £563 £588
90th Percentile £616 £600 £600
England median daily rate £500 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -9.09% +18.28% -7.46%

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 12,631 14,719 19,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.01% 93.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,383 9,518 13,972
10th Percentile £332 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 161 212
10th Percentile £17.16 £17.25 £18.02
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.50 £21.94
Median hourly rate £27.40 £39.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.74% -3.70% +25.58%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £61.94
90th Percentile £67.11 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.94
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.66% +53.13%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Storage Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies 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 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in London

Storage Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies 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 November 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 -2 1 £615 +14.42% 7
Storage Engineer
England

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

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

1 4 (57.14%) Dell
2 3 (42.86%) EMC
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) Isilon
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) CentOS
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) Datadog
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Front Office
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (28.57%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (14.29%) HP Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) CentOS
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) E-business
2 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) RHCE
1 1 (14.29%) RHCSA
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Dell
2 3 (42.86%) EMC
3 2 (28.57%) Isilon
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Commvault
4 1 (14.29%) CyberArk
4 1 (14.29%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft