Storage Management Contracts in the Midlands

Storage Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Storage Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Storage Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 120 151
Rank change year-on-year +25 +31 +38
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 16 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.47% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.57% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 15
10th Percentile £455 £306 £387
25th Percentile £463 £464 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +11.11% +58.08%
75th Percentile £689 £775 £731
90th Percentile £700 - -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +10.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Storage Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the Midlands

Storage Management
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 Storage Management within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +20 16 £500 -33.33% 4
Storage Management
England

Storage Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (25.00%) LAN
2 4 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) Flink
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Support
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Support
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) AIX
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
2 4 (25.00%) VMS
2 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (25.00%) ITIL
1 4 (25.00%) Storage Virtualisation
1 4 (25.00%) Workflow
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
2 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
2 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (12.50%) DataOps
3 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 2 (12.50%) ITSM
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architecture
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Data Security
4 1 (6.25%) ETL
4 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) SLA
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Dell
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Foundry