Senior Storage Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Storage Engineer
UK

The median Senior Storage Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 521 576
Rank change year-on-year -79 +55 +150
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Storage Engineer 4 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.020% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.021% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £496 £409 -
25th Percentile £502 £411 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £421 £475
Median % change year-on-year +24.70% -11.37% -
75th Percentile £588 £432 £551
90th Percentile £618 £453 £596
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £421 £475
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.37% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 37,601 28,063 41,310
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 92.89% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,630 17,563 27,190
10th Percentile £306 £293 £275
25th Percentile £408 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,287 822 2,342
10th Percentile £14.61 £16.25 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -10.88%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £71.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -5.74%

Senior Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Storage Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Storage Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Storage Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Storage Engineer in the UK

Senior Storage Engineer
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Storage Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. 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 -72 4 £525 +20.55% 5
London -45 2 £575 +27.78% 1
UK excluding London -65 2 £494 +17.34% 3
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 £494 - 1

Senior Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 February 2026, Senior Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Pure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Brocade
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Commvault
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Firmware
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Senior Storage Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) NCDA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Podman
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Brocade
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) VMware