Storage Management Contracts in Scotland

Storage Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 92 114 122
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 +47
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 24 15 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.48% 0.68% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 0.76% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 20
10th Percentile £405 £529 £453
25th Percentile £410 £628 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £675 £535
Median % change year-on-year -33.11% +26.23% +137.67%
75th Percentile £525 £705 £576
90th Percentile £600 £722 £627
UK median daily rate £474 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +2.93% -16.36% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in Scotland

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in Scotland

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in Scotland

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in Scotland

Storage Management
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 Management within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +18 22 £447 -29.57% 2
Edinburgh -1 2 £466 -31.04% 1
Storage Management
UK

Storage Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.17%) DB2
1 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Analyst
1 11 (45.83%) Programmer
1 11 (45.83%) Python Programmer
1 11 (45.83%) Technical Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Python Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Administrator
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) LDAP
1 3 (12.50%) X-Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Flash
2 1 (4.17%) POSIX
2 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) NVMe
3 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (95.83%) Linux
2 21 (87.50%) Unix
3 12 (50.00%) Windows
4 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
5 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
7 2 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Capacity Management
2 16 (66.67%) Technical Analysis
3 12 (50.00%) OO
4 4 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (12.50%) Information Security
5 3 (12.50%) Line Management
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (4.17%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (4.17%) Data Science
7 1 (4.17%) Decision-Making
7 1 (4.17%) Observability
7 1 (4.17%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Python
2 13 (54.17%) Perl
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.17%) GPFS
3 1 (4.17%) KVM
3 1 (4.17%) NFS
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
1 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Nagios
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (4.17%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) NetApp
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Brocade
3 1 (4.17%) Commvault
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) EMC
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) Sybase
3 1 (4.17%) Veritas