Enterprise Storage Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Enterprise Storage
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 110 132
Rank change year-on-year -75 +22 +31
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.047% 0.052% 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £426 - -
25th Percentile £455 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £521 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +30.13% -18.78%
75th Percentile £555 £531 -
90th Percentile £582 - -
England median daily rate £505 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +1.00% +25.00% -15.79%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Enterprise Storage falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,279 576 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.97% 30.19% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 386 557
10th Percentile £263 £196 £220
25th Percentile £394 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £611
90th Percentile £700 £662 £750
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 30 62
10th Percentile £13.91 £13.81 £10.47
25th Percentile £17.20 £15.22 £13.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.51 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.87% -5.08% -13.33%
75th Percentile £47.50 £30.68 £28.88
90th Percentile £74.00 £33.91 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.91 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.60% +12.43% +34.04%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Enterprise Storage job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Storage in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Storage in the Midlands

Enterprise Storage
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Storage within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
West Midlands -61 2 £506 -2.74% 3
Enterprise Storage
England

Enterprise Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Storage Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SAN Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SAN Storage Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) VMware