Storage Management Contracts in the North of England

Storage Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 151 200
Rank change year-on-year -2 +49 +22
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 12 32 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.69% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.81% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 3
10th Percentile £319 £403 £284
25th Percentile £403 £407 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £388
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% +7.10% -8.82%
75th Percentile £538 £449 £403
90th Percentile £623 £540 £405
England median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,962 3,958 5,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.68% 85.54% 90.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,906 2,413 3,509
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 364 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -38.26% +50.08%
75th Percentile £57.17 £45.00 £44.78
90th Percentile £82.01 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the North of England

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the North of England

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in the North of England

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the North of England

Storage Management
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 Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West - 9 £488 - 6
Yorkshire -15 3 £405 -2.41% 5
Storage Management
England

Storage Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) WLAN
3 2 (16.67%) NAS
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) DNS
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Industrial Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) Backup Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Head of Performance Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Storage Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 1 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (8.33%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 4 (33.33%) Change Management
2 4 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Management
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Break/Fix
5 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Firmware
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Backup Exec
1 3 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) EMC
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Brocade
3 4 (33.33%) HP
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Symantec
4 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 3 (25.00%) Veritas
5 2 (16.67%) NetApp
5 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (8.33%) Oracle
6 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (8.33%) Splunk