Storage Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Storage Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Storage Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Storage Management over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 309 367
Rank change year-on-year +43 +58 +78
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 68 94 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.45% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.54% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 60
10th Percentile £384 £371 £346
25th Percentile £408 £412 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £537
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +0.51% +25.82%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £700
90th Percentile £682 £711 £731
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Storage Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 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
Scotland +23 24 £452 -33.11% 3
West Midlands +22 16 £500 -33.33% 3
Midlands +17 16 £500 -33.33% 6
North of England -1 14 £428 +3.01% 7
South East +24 12 £413 -31.82% 16
North West - 10 £488 - 4
Yorkshire -18 3 £405 -2.41% 1
East of England +33 2 £500 +11.11% 4
North East - 1 £188 - 2
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 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
2 5 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.94%) Confluence
4 1 (1.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.47%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.94%) AWS
4 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.47%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.47%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.47%) IaaS
5 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (27.94%) SAN
2 7 (10.29%) LAN
2 7 (10.29%) Network Security
3 6 (8.82%) Firewall
3 6 (8.82%) NAS
4 5 (7.35%) Internet
4 5 (7.35%) iSCSI
4 5 (7.35%) VPN
5 3 (4.41%) WLAN
6 1 (1.47%) DHCP
6 1 (1.47%) DNS
6 1 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.47%) WAN
6 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Power BI
2 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.94%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.94%) Big Data
4 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.94%) Flink
4 2 (2.94%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.94%) MySQL
4 2 (2.94%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) DB2
5 1 (1.47%) Parquet
5 1 (1.47%) Power Query
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Git
1 3 (4.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Legal
5 1 (1.47%) Military
5 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Analyst
2 11 (16.18%) Programmer
2 11 (16.18%) Python Programmer
2 11 (16.18%) Storage Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Technical Analyst
3 8 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Administrator
5 6 (8.82%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 5 (7.35%) Developer
6 5 (7.35%) IT Manager
6 5 (7.35%) IT Services Manager
6 5 (7.35%) Service Manager
6 5 (7.35%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) PySpark
2 5 (7.35%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (5.88%) Kafka
4 3 (4.41%) LDAP
4 3 (4.41%) X-Windows
5 2 (2.94%) Keycloak
5 2 (2.94%) React
5 2 (2.94%) REST
5 2 (2.94%) RESTful
6 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.47%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.47%) Flash
6 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.47%) JSON
6 1 (1.47%) Node.js
6 1 (1.47%) OAuth
6 1 (1.47%) OpenID
6 1 (1.47%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.35%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.94%) SCADA
6 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.47%) Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.47%) NVMe
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 37 (54.41%) Linux
2 26 (38.24%) Unix
3 24 (35.29%) Windows
4 18 (26.47%) Windows Server
5 6 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.88%) AIX
6 4 (5.88%) VMS
7 3 (4.41%) Mac OS
7 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) Capacity Management
2 16 (23.53%) Technical Analysis
3 14 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (17.65%) Analytics
4 12 (17.65%) OO
5 9 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.29%) Business Continuity
6 7 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (10.29%) Data Management
6 7 (10.29%) Decision-Making
6 7 (10.29%) ITIL
7 6 (8.82%) Agile
7 6 (8.82%) Change Management
7 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
7 6 (8.82%) ETL
7 6 (8.82%) Problem Management
7 6 (8.82%) Task Automation
7 6 (8.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) Python
2 13 (19.12%) Perl
3 8 (11.76%) SQL
4 5 (7.35%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.47%) Bash
6 1 (1.47%) Bicep
6 1 (1.47%) C#
6 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (5.88%) SLA
2 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (19.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.24%) Docker
3 8 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (5.88%) Firmware
5 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.47%) GPFS
6 1 (1.47%) KVM
6 1 (1.47%) NFS
6 1 (1.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (5.88%) NetBackup
3 4 (5.88%) Tivoli
3 4 (5.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (4.41%) Backup Exec
4 3 (4.41%) HP Data Protector
4 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.94%) Ansible
6 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.47%) Grafana
6 1 (1.47%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.47%) Nagios
6 1 (1.47%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
6 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.47%) Terraform
6 1 (1.47%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) VMware
2 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.24%) Cisco
4 7 (10.29%) EMC
5 6 (8.82%) Brocade
5 6 (8.82%) Oracle
6 5 (7.35%) HP
6 5 (7.35%) IBM
6 5 (7.35%) Veritas
7 4 (5.88%) Dell
7 4 (5.88%) NetApp
8 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.41%) Symantec
8 3 (4.41%) Veeam
9 2 (2.94%) Splunk
10 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.47%) Commvault
10 1 (1.47%) Foundry
10 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds