Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Storage Engineer
England > North of England

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 142 180
Rank change year-on-year -52 +38 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 14 19 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.53% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.57% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £406 £403 £385
25th Percentile £425 £452 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £526 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +31.56% -23.81%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £469
90th Percentile £562 £585 £477
England median daily rate £500 £538 £465
% change year-on-year -6.98% +15.59% -11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,299 3,311 4,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.10% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 1,913 2,894
10th Percentile £213 £230 £265
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £592
90th Percentile £650 £651 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 173 205
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.36 £15.48
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.99 £25.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.49% -8.00% +27.91%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £61.99
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in the North of England

Storage Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Storage Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
North West -35 10 £475 -4.52% 3
Yorkshire -41 4 £468 -12.93% 1
Storage Engineer
England

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 17 December 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 North of England region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) NetApp
1 10 (71.43%) SAN
2 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Dell
3 5 (35.71%) DNS
3 5 (35.71%) EMC
3 5 (35.71%) High Availability
3 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
3 5 (35.71%) Veeam
3 5 (35.71%) Veritas
3 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco
4 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) Firmware
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) ITSM
4 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
4 4 (28.57%) VLAN
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (7.14%) CloudBees
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) SAN
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
3 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 4 (28.57%) VLAN
4 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (7.14%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Change Management
2 5 (35.71%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) ITSM
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
6 1 (7.14%) IT Governance
6 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
6 1 (7.14%) Scrum
6 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Firmware
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (7.14%) NFS
4 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) NetBackup
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) NetApp
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) Dell
3 5 (35.71%) EMC
3 5 (35.71%) Veeam
3 5 (35.71%) Veritas
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco
4 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 2 (14.29%) IBM
5 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.14%) Commvault
6 1 (7.14%) Pure Storage
6 1 (7.14%) Splunk