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 £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 415 459
Rank change year-on-year +122 +44 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 92 41 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 27 37
10th Percentile £413 £313 £383
25th Percentile £463 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £600 £537 £488
90th Percentile £608 £597 £626
UK median daily rate £540 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +3.85% +15.56% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +52 29 £520 +7.11% 2
South East +31 29 £603 +14.76% 4
Yorkshire +40 19 £533 +9.79%
South West +30 12 £500 +81.82% 6
Scotland +32 8 £476 -7.39%
North West - 8 £390 - 1
East of England +8 7 £550 +41.94% 4
Midlands +32 5 £575 +70.37% 5
East Midlands +20 5 £575 +70.37% 3
North East - 2 £400 - 1
Wales - 2 - - 1
Storage Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 48 (52.17%) VMware
2 47 (51.09%) SAN
3 46 (50.00%) Windows
4 42 (45.65%) Linux
4 42 (45.65%) Security Cleared
5 35 (38.04%) EMC
6 32 (34.78%) DV Cleared
6 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
7 31 (33.70%) Dell
8 27 (29.35%) NetBackup
8 27 (29.35%) Cisco
8 27 (29.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
10 23 (25.00%) SC Cleared
11 20 (21.74%) ITIL
12 18 (19.57%) VMware ESXi
12 18 (19.57%) Azure
12 18 (19.57%) Data Centre
13 17 (18.48%) Windows Server
13 17 (18.48%) Storage Management
13 17 (18.48%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (18.48%) Brocade
13 17 (18.48%) NetApp
14 16 (17.39%) Data Protection
14 16 (17.39%) vCenter Server
15 15 (16.30%) EMC NetWorker
15 15 (16.30%) NAS
15 15 (16.30%) Veritas
16 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
16 14 (15.22%) Degree

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 4 (4.35%) SAS
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.57%) Azure
2 10 (10.87%) OCI
3 7 (7.61%) AWS
4 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.26%) GCP
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 1 (1.09%) Cohesity
7 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.09%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 47 (51.09%) SAN
2 15 (16.30%) NAS
3 12 (13.04%) DHCP
3 12 (13.04%) DNS
4 10 (10.87%) Firewall
5 9 (9.78%) Fibre Channel
6 8 (8.70%) VLAN
7 5 (5.43%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
General
1 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.04%) Finance
3 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.43%) Legal
5 4 (4.35%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) Flash
2 4 (4.35%) POSIX
3 2 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.04%) Replication
3 4 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (4.35%) NVMe
4 3 (3.26%) EMC VNX
4 3 (3.26%) HP Storage
5 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.09%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.09%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.09%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (50.00%) Windows
2 42 (45.65%) Linux
3 17 (18.48%) Windows Server
4 10 (10.87%) AIX
4 10 (10.87%) Windows 10
4 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2012
4 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (10.87%) Windows XP
5 8 (8.70%) Solaris
6 7 (7.61%) Unix
7 6 (6.52%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (21.74%) ITIL
3 17 (18.48%) Performance Tuning
3 17 (18.48%) Storage Management
4 16 (17.39%) Data Protection
5 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.13%) Migration
7 12 (13.04%) Service Delivery
8 11 (11.96%) Change Management
8 11 (11.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (10.87%) Break/Fix
9 10 (10.87%) Converged Infrastructure
9 10 (10.87%) Performance Monitoring
9 10 (10.87%) Proactive Monitoring
9 10 (10.87%) Project Management
9 10 (10.87%) Server Management
10 9 (9.78%) Customer Requirements
11 8 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
12 7 (7.61%) Database Migration
13 6 (6.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.13%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.61%) SQL
3 6 (6.52%) Perl
4 4 (4.35%) Java
4 4 (4.35%) Python
5 3 (3.26%) Bash
6 1 (1.09%) JCL
Qualifications
1 42 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.78%) DV Cleared
3 23 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (15.22%) Degree
5 10 (10.87%) CCNA
5 10 (10.87%) CCNP
5 10 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 24 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (19.57%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (13.04%) Active Directory
4 10 (10.87%) Hyper-V
5 7 (7.61%) Firmware
6 4 (4.35%) Docker
6 4 (4.35%) GPFS
6 4 (4.35%) NFS
7 3 (3.26%) SRDF
7 3 (3.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (29.35%) NetBackup
2 16 (17.39%) vCenter Server
3 15 (16.30%) EMC NetWorker
4 12 (13.04%) SCCM
5 10 (10.87%) Ansible
5 10 (10.87%) SCOM
5 10 (10.87%) WSUS
6 9 (9.78%) Puppet
7 8 (8.70%) Avamar
8 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
8 4 (4.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (3.26%) EMC TimeFinder
9 3 (3.26%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (2.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 48 (52.17%) VMware
2 35 (38.04%) EMC
3 31 (33.70%) Dell
4 27 (29.35%) Cisco
5 17 (18.48%) Brocade
5 17 (18.48%) NetApp
6 15 (16.30%) Veritas
7 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
8 13 (14.13%) HP
8 13 (14.13%) Oracle
8 13 (14.13%) Symantec
9 11 (11.96%) Veeam
10 10 (10.87%) 3PAR
10 10 (10.87%) Extreme Networks
10 10 (10.87%) Juniper
10 10 (10.87%) Palo Alto
11 9 (9.78%) IBM
12 5 (5.43%) Google
13 4 (4.35%) Isilon
13 4 (4.35%) Sybase