Enterprise Storage Contracts in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Storage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 383 435
Rank change year-on-year +65 +52 +49
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 16 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.053% 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 11
10th Percentile £390 - £230
25th Percentile £408 £400 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £378
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +19.05% +18.13%
75th Percentile £566 £516 £488
90th Percentile £645 £575 £515
UK median daily rate £421 £444 £378
% change year-on-year -5.13% +17.39% -5.50%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,236 6,091 7,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.16% 29.43% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 3,645 5,256
10th Percentile £208 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 724 436
10th Percentile £16.87 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.99 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Enterprise Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Storage in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Storage in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Storage in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Storage in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK excluding London

Enterprise Storage
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England - 5 £390 -
South East +35 4 £600 +50.00% 7
Yorkshire - 4 £390 -
Scotland - 4 £421 - 1
South West +28 2 £523 +4.50% 2
Midlands +18 1 £521 +30.13% 3
West Midlands +13 1 £521 +30.13% 1
North West - 1 - -
Enterprise Storage
UK

Enterprise Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) DHCP
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) Internet
3 3 (18.75%) Network Security
4 2 (12.50%) NAS
5 1 (6.25%) Firewall
5 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) TestNG
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Network Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Network Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Storage Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.25%) pytest
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (6.25%) EMC VNX
3 1 (6.25%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
1 10 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (25.00%) High Availability
3 4 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (18.75%) Network Design
4 3 (18.75%) Network Management
4 3 (18.75%) Network Security Management
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (18.75%) Security Management
5 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (6.25%) Digital Strategy
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 5 (31.25%) 3PAR
3 5 (31.25%) HP
3 5 (31.25%) Veritas
4 4 (25.00%) Dell
5 3 (18.75%) EMC
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco
6 2 (12.50%) NetApp
7 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (6.25%) Brocade
7 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
7 1 (6.25%) IBM
7 1 (6.25%) Juniper
7 1 (6.25%) Oracle
7 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (6.25%) Splunk