Storage Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Storage Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Storage Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.90% - 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% - 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £312 - -
25th Percentile £313 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £406 - £488
90th Percentile £503 - -
North West median daily rate £350 £450 £489
% change year-on-year -22.22% -7.98% +11.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Storage Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 993 1,029 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.38% 88.25% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 586 1,029
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £364 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 53
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.00 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.00 £17.11
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -11.36%
75th Percentile £31.40 £47.50 £49.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £72.25
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% - +45.83%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Storage Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Storage Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Storage Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Storage Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Storage Management

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in Manchester

Storage Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Storage Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Storage Management

Storage Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) ISPF
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Change Management
1 8 (80.00%) Release Management
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (10.00%) Data Security
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) CLIST
1 7 (70.00%) COBOL
1 7 (70.00%) JCL
1 7 (70.00%) REXX
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) ACF2
1 7 (70.00%) RACF
1 7 (70.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) CA Endevor
1 7 (70.00%) Tivoli
1 7 (70.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Dell
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) NetApp
1 1 (10.00%) Veeam
1 1 (10.00%) VMware