Storage Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £421, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 313 421
Rank change year-on-year -3 +108 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 20 86 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.41% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.45% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 63 27
10th Percentile £356 £413 £335
25th Percentile £396 £463 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +8.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £442 £604 £543
90th Percentile £494 £608 £597
UK median daily rate £473 £540 £523
% change year-on-year -12.46% +3.35% +16.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Storage Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK excluding London

Storage Engineer
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 Storage Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
North West +17 8 £488 +25.00% 2
North of England -2 8 £488 -6.16% 2
Scotland +9 5 £421 -31.82%
Midlands +21 4 - - 2
West Midlands - 4 - - 2
South West +36 1 £340 -32.00% 1
East of England +26 1 - - 1
South East +22 1 £375 -37.76% 4
Storage Engineer
UK

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) SAN
2 11 (55.00%) Storage Management
3 10 (50.00%) Windows
4 9 (45.00%) Linux
4 9 (45.00%) VMware
5 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
6 7 (35.00%) Problem Management
6 7 (35.00%) Change Management
6 7 (35.00%) Firmware
6 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
7 6 (30.00%) HP
7 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (25.00%) Dell
8 5 (25.00%) EMC
8 5 (25.00%) Cisco
8 5 (25.00%) Brocade
8 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
9 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (20.00%) NAS
9 4 (20.00%) LAN
9 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
9 4 (20.00%) NetBackup
9 4 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (15.00%) Veritas
10 3 (15.00%) HP Data Protector

Storage Engineer Skill Set
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 (5.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) SAN
2 4 (20.00%) LAN
2 4 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) SSL
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Linux
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Unix
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Storage Management
2 7 (35.00%) Change Management
2 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Problem Management
3 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL
4 1 (5.00%) ITSM
4 1 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (5.00%) Line Management
4 1 (5.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (5.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (5.00%) Server Building
4 1 (5.00%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Firmware
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (10.00%) vSphere
5 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 4 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 3 (15.00%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) HP
3 5 (25.00%) Brocade
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco
3 5 (25.00%) Dell
3 5 (25.00%) EMC
4 3 (15.00%) Veritas
5 1 (5.00%) NetApp
5 1 (5.00%) Remedy
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam
5 1 (5.00%) Zerto