Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Storage Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.17% 0.48% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £537 £538 -
% change year-on-year -0.09% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 530 363 382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.98% 86.22% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 198 245
10th Percentile £305 £300 £375
25th Percentile £390 £436 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £587
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -9.02% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £619 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £568
% change year-on-year -9.52% -7.57% +13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £14.98 £15.05 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.68 £20.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.80 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +6.58%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Storage Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 4 October 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 Sheffield region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CloudBees
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) CloudBees
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas