Storage Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Storage Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 132 144
Rank change year-on-year +35 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 5 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.48% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.56% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 6
10th Percentile £337 - £656
25th Percentile £361 £603 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £605 £700
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -13.60% +50.59%
75th Percentile £409 £608 £775
90th Percentile £415 - £900
South East median daily rate £413 £605 £625
% change year-on-year -31.82% -3.20% +41.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the Thames Valley

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the Thames Valley

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the Thames Valley

Storage Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +22 4 £406 -32.85% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £321 -
Storage Management
South East

Storage Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Parquet
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) API Management
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) MLOps
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Bicep
4 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware