Storage Management Contracts in the North West

Storage Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 12 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% - 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% - 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £338 - £283
25th Percentile £417 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.05%
75th Percentile £513 - £438
90th Percentile £609 - £468
England median daily rate £492 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.55% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,937 2,002 2,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.49% 84.40% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,214 1,807
10th Percentile £280 £308 £300
25th Percentile £375 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £589
90th Percentile £665 £675 £674
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 176 171
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.08
Median hourly rate £28.43 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% -0.76% +51.52%
75th Percentile £58.27 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in the North West over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Cumbria - 4 £400 -
Lancashire - 3 - - 1
Merseyside - 3 £430 -
Manchester - 2 £425 - 2
Storage Management
England

Storage Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) WLAN
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
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%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Industrial Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
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%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Management
3 3 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) RBAC
4 2 (16.67%) SIEM
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
5 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (8.33%) Release Management
5 1 (8.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Firmware
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (25.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Veeam
4 3 (25.00%) Brocade
4 3 (25.00%) EMC
4 3 (25.00%) HP
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Symantec
5 2 (16.67%) Veritas
6 1 (8.33%) Dell
6 1 (8.33%) NetApp