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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 394 414
Rank change year-on-year +59 +20 +59
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 18 7 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.033% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.12% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 14
10th Percentile £385 £490 £274
25th Percentile £398 - £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £500 £402
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% +24.53% +7.07%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £508
90th Percentile £665 £586 £568
UK median daily rate £421 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.80% +5.26% -

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 4,610 6,086 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.94% 28.65% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,758 3,561 4,884
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £605
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 765 407
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.22 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.79 £35.65 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +62.05% +2.85%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.01 £72.50 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £36.00 £22.41
% change year-on-year -11.78% +60.64% -16.94%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
East of England +26 5 £250 -48.45%
North of England - 5 £390 - 3
South East +50 4 £600 +1.69%
Scotland - 4 £421 -
Yorkshire - 4 £390 - 3
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 4 (22.22%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) SAN
2 9 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (27.78%) iSCSI
4 4 (22.22%) DHCP
4 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (11.11%) NAS
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) TeamCity
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.56%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) TestNG
4 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Administrator
1 5 (27.78%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Storage Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.56%) pytest
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Data Centre
2 5 (27.78%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.11%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (5.56%) EMC VNX
4 1 (5.56%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Linux
2 10 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) CentOS
3 5 (27.78%) Ubuntu
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
2 5 (27.78%) ITSM
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 4 (22.22%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Storage Management
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Data Science
5 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Agile
6 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
6 1 (5.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
3 2 (11.11%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (5.56%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (27.78%) 3PAR
3 5 (27.78%) HP
3 5 (27.78%) Veritas
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 3 (16.67%) EMC
6 2 (11.11%) NetApp
7 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (5.56%) Brocade
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco
7 1 (5.56%) IBM
7 1 (5.56%) Oracle
7 1 (5.56%) Splunk