Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Storage Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 1 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.065% - 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £259
25th Percentile £425 - £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £618
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.50%
75th Percentile £475 - £698
90th Percentile - - £722
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £465
% change year-on-year -4.65% +15.59% -11.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,394 1,498 2,258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.07% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 891 1,392
10th Percentile £216 £205 £250
25th Percentile £365 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 46 98
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.13 £12.29
25th Percentile £17.27 £17.46 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.09 £22.94 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -49.03% +153.95%
75th Percentile £55.63 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £65.27 £34.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.17% -5.71% -

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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 Scotland.

Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Storage Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Storage Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Edinburgh - 1 £450 - 1
Storage Engineer
UK

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, 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 Scotland region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VCP6
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCDA
1 1 (100.00%) VCP6
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) VMware