Enterprise Storage Contracts

Enterprise Storage
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 541 599
Rank change year-on-year +31 +58 +167
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 43 7 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.018% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.059% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 4 36
10th Percentile £370 £292 £220
25th Percentile £393 £414 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £493 £530
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% -7.08% +3.41%
75th Percentile £503 £516 £711
90th Percentile £580 £545 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £500 £378
% change year-on-year -21.00% +32.28% -2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £40.39 - -
25th Percentile £43.96 - -
Median hourly rate £50.86 - -
75th Percentile £58.68 - -
90th Percentile £62.82 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,593 11,800 16,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.17% 30.31% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,113 7,560 11,737
10th Percentile £303 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £766 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 602 400
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.39 £16.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.35 £20.83
Median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year -34.44% +12.04% +51.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £67.29 £65.03
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.33 £46.25 £40.59
% change year-on-year -36.58% +13.94% +88.79%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Enterprise Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Storage.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Storage over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Storage.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Enterprise Storage over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 August 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
England +42 37 £480 -2.54% 27
UK excluding London +25 22 £395 -21.00% 12
London +32 15 £506 +130.00% 13
Work from Home - 10 £421 - 9
South East - 10 £395 - 4
East of England +13 5 £250 -48.45% 4
Scotland - 4 £421 -
Yorkshire - 3 £390 -
North of England - 3 £390 - 1

Enterprise Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.30%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.65%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (58.14%) SAN
2 9 (20.93%) DNS
3 5 (11.63%) iSCSI
4 4 (9.30%) DHCP
4 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
5 3 (6.98%) NAS
6 2 (4.65%) VLAN
6 2 (4.65%) VPN
7 1 (2.33%) LAN
7 1 (2.33%) Network Security
7 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) TestNG
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Legal
4 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Administrator
2 10 (23.26%) Senior
3 9 (20.93%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Backup Administrator
4 8 (18.60%) Storage Administrator
4 8 (18.60%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 7 (16.28%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (9.30%) HP Storage Administrator
8 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.65%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Consultant
9 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Consultant
9 2 (4.65%) Lead
9 2 (4.65%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Operations Director
10 1 (2.33%) Head of IT Operations
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.33%) pytest
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.63%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.98%) HP Storage
3 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 20 (46.51%) Windows
3 17 (39.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (18.60%) CentOS
4 8 (18.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (13.95%) Ubuntu
5 6 (13.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (18.60%) ITIL
1 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
2 6 (13.95%) Storage Management
3 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
3 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (11.63%) ITSM
3 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (6.98%) Configuration Management
4 3 (6.98%) High Availability
4 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (6.98%) Mentoring
4 3 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (6.98%) TOGAF
5 2 (4.65%) Data Science
5 2 (4.65%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Transition
5 2 (4.65%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Shell Script
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (34.88%) Security Cleared
2 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) RHCE
5 1 (2.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
1 6 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (37.21%) NetBackup
2 9 (20.93%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) Puppet
4 3 (6.98%) SCOM
5 1 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.33%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) VMware
2 15 (34.88%) Veritas
3 12 (27.91%) Dell
3 12 (27.91%) Red Hat
4 11 (25.58%) 3PAR
4 11 (25.58%) HP
4 11 (25.58%) NetApp
5 9 (20.93%) Cisco
6 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
6 7 (16.28%) Nimble Storage
7 5 (11.63%) Isilon
7 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
8 4 (9.30%) Commvault
8 4 (9.30%) EMC
9 2 (4.65%) SnapLogic
10 1 (2.33%) Avaya
10 1 (2.33%) Brocade
10 1 (2.33%) Hitachi