Storage Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Storage Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Storage Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 374 445
Rank change year-on-year +76 +71 -106
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 97 91 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.37% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 60 62
10th Percentile £389 £346 £319
25th Percentile £415 £434 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £528 £429
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +23.10% -1.34%
75th Percentile £608 £663 £534
90th Percentile £713 £731 £592
UK median daily rate £474 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +3.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +225.00% -28.52%
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +225.00% -28.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Storage Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,670 21,826 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.98% 89.54% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,665 15,130 19,465
10th Percentile £248 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,010 1,339 1,382
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.20 £13.87
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.80 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +69 34 £415 +25.28% 14
Yorkshire +53 34 £415 +7.10% 9
South East +21 27 £590 +2.61% 15
Scotland +17 17 £675 +28.57% 1
Midlands +33 12 £750 +11.11% 14
West Midlands +25 10 £750 +11.11% 7
East of England +17 5 £450 -43.75% 9
South West +18 3 £323 -38.57% 5
East Midlands +14 2 £398 -6.47% 7
Storage Management
UK

Storage Management
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 6 (6.19%) SAS
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.80%) Azure
2 23 (23.71%) GitHub
3 16 (16.49%) AWS
4 12 (12.37%) OCI
5 6 (6.19%) AWS CodeBuild
5 6 (6.19%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 6 (6.19%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (5.15%) IaaS
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.15%) OpenShift
6 5 (5.15%) SaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.06%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.03%) GCP
8 1 (1.03%) MinIO
8 1 (1.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (27.84%) SAN
2 23 (23.71%) Firewall
3 21 (21.65%) DNS
4 20 (20.62%) DHCP
5 12 (12.37%) VPN
6 11 (11.34%) Fibre Channel
6 11 (11.34%) LAN
6 11 (11.34%) VoIP
6 11 (11.34%) WAN
7 10 (10.31%) MPLS
8 9 (9.28%) iSCSI
8 9 (9.28%) PBX
8 9 (9.28%) WLAN
9 7 (7.22%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (5.15%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (5.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (5.15%) Internet
10 5 (5.15%) SD-WAN
11 4 (4.12%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.15%) DB2
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) QlikView
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (15.46%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.34%) GitLab
3 1 (1.03%) Git
General
1 45 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.25%) Back Office
4 8 (8.25%) Finance
4 8 (8.25%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.06%) Electronics
7 2 (2.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (23.71%) Storage Manager
2 22 (22.68%) Architect
3 20 (20.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (16.49%) Storage Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) AWS Architect
6 6 (6.19%) Database Specialist
6 6 (6.19%) Platform Specialist
7 5 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (5.15%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Senior
7 5 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.15%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Storage Architect
8 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Solution Architect
9 3 (3.09%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) YAML
2 9 (9.28%) Web Services
3 8 (8.25%) REST
3 8 (8.25%) SOAP
4 6 (6.19%) Flash
4 6 (6.19%) POSIX
5 2 (2.06%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.03%) Django
6 1 (1.03%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.03%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (39.18%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.37%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (10.31%) Replication
4 8 (8.25%) Clustering
5 5 (5.15%) Client/Server
5 5 (5.15%) NVMe
6 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.03%) Smart Meter
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (59.79%) Linux
2 28 (28.87%) Windows
3 24 (24.74%) Windows Server
4 20 (20.62%) zOS
5 14 (14.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (14.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (13.40%) Windows 10
6 13 (13.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (12.37%) Windows XP
8 11 (11.34%) Unix
9 9 (9.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (5.15%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (2.06%) Solaris
12 1 (1.03%) CentOS
12 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
12 1 (1.03%) VMS
12 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) Project Management
2 28 (28.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 26 (26.80%) Problem Management
4 24 (24.74%) Agile
4 24 (24.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (24.74%) ITIL
5 20 (20.62%) Migration
5 20 (20.62%) Performance Tuning
5 20 (20.62%) Software Testing
6 19 (19.59%) Cost Management
7 17 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (15.46%) Capacity Management
8 15 (15.46%) High Availability
8 15 (15.46%) Server Management
9 14 (14.43%) Proactive Monitoring
10 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (12.37%) Break/Fix
11 12 (12.37%) Converged Infrastructure
11 12 (12.37%) Performance Monitoring
12 11 (11.34%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.74%) Python
2 19 (19.59%) JCL
3 16 (16.49%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.46%) REXX
5 14 (14.43%) Java
6 12 (12.37%) SQL
7 8 (8.25%) Bash
7 8 (8.25%) Perl
8 6 (6.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.06%) AWK
9 2 (2.06%) Bourne shell
9 2 (2.06%) Korn
10 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 23 (23.71%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (18.56%) Degree
5 16 (16.49%) CCNP
6 15 (15.46%) DV Cleared
7 14 (14.43%) CCNA
8 9 (9.28%) CCIE
8 9 (9.28%) CCIE Data Center
9 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.09%) MCSE
10 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (2.06%) RHCE
11 2 (2.06%) RHCSA
11 2 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.03%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (2.06%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (25.77%) NFS
3 18 (18.56%) Active Directory
3 18 (18.56%) Time Sharing Option
4 14 (14.43%) Hyper-V
4 14 (14.43%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (11.34%) vSphere
6 9 (9.28%) Docker
7 4 (4.12%) GPFS
7 4 (4.12%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.06%) Firmware
9 1 (1.03%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (30.93%) Ansible
2 25 (25.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 14 (14.43%) NetBackup
3 14 (14.43%) Terraform
3 14 (14.43%) vCenter Server
4 13 (13.40%) WSUS
5 12 (12.37%) EMC NetWorker
5 12 (12.37%) SCCM
5 12 (12.37%) SCOM
6 8 (8.25%) Kubernetes
7 7 (7.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (2.06%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (2.06%) yum
11 1 (1.03%) Grafana
11 1 (1.03%) Packer
11 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.03%) vRealize
11 1 (1.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (37.11%) Dell
2 32 (32.99%) VMware
3 31 (31.96%) IBM
4 27 (27.84%) Oracle
5 24 (24.74%) Cisco
6 23 (23.71%) Brocade
7 21 (21.65%) Microsoft
8 20 (20.62%) Broadcom
8 20 (20.62%) EMC
9 19 (19.59%) Palo Alto
10 18 (18.56%) CA
11 17 (17.53%) Symantec
12 14 (14.43%) Veeam
13 13 (13.40%) HP
14 12 (12.37%) 3PAR
14 12 (12.37%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (12.37%) Juniper
14 12 (12.37%) Red Hat
15 8 (8.25%) NetApp
15 8 (8.25%) SolarWinds