Enterprise Storage Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Enterprise Storage
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.67% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £499 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £548 - -
Wales median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

Enterprise Storage falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 142 101 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 31.70% 41.22% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 65 99
10th Percentile £285 £160 £136
25th Percentile £316 £259 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £331 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -33.77% -4.08%
75th Percentile £538 £446 £550
90th Percentile £686 £495 £577
Wales median daily rate £438 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 5
10th Percentile £24.28 £13.08 £14.61
25th Percentile £29.57 £18.95 £18.89
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.59% -44.76% +190.06%
75th Percentile £50.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £46.25 £81.10
Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £21.01 £19.00
% change year-on-year +109.23% +10.58% +11.57%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Storage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Enterprise Storage job vacancy trend in South Wales

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Storage within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Newport - 3 £525 - 2
Enterprise Storage
Wales

Enterprise Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Backup Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) VMFS
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SnapMirror
1 1 (33.33%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) VMware