Storage Analyst Contract Job Trends

Storage Analyst
UK

The median Storage Analyst daily rate in the UK is £316, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 - 630
Rank change year-on-year - - +199
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Analyst 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £289 - £336
25th Percentile £304 - £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 - £393
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.42%
75th Percentile £375 - £420
90th Percentile £385 - £429
UK excluding London median daily rate £316 - £435
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,435 34,526 44,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.91% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,258 20,814 30,499
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,682 1,372 1,517
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.07 £14.77
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.25%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% -9.09% +91.30%

Storage Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Storage Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Storage Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Storage Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Analyst over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Analyst in the UK

Storage Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Storage Analyst
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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 - 8 £316 - 6
UK excluding London - 7 £316 - 5
Midlands - 5 £309 - 5
West Midlands - 5 £309 - 5
Work from Home - 4 £350 - 3
London - 2 £350 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £375 -

Storage Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, Storage Analyst 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 Storage Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) Linux
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (50.00%) vRealize
3 5 (50.00%) vSphere
4 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Dell
4 4 (40.00%) EMC
4 4 (40.00%) IBM
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle
5 3 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (30.00%) Brocade
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (30.00%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (30.00%) Flash
5 3 (30.00%) GPFS
5 3 (30.00%) Isilon
5 3 (30.00%) NFS
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (30.00%) SAN
5 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow

Storage Analyst 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (30.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (30.00%) Ticket Management
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Business Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transition
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (50.00%) vSphere
2 3 (30.00%) GPFS
2 3 (30.00%) NFS
2 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) vRealize
2 3 (30.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (30.00%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (10.00%) SCOM
3 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
2 4 (40.00%) EMC
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) Brocade
3 3 (30.00%) Isilon
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (20.00%) Commvault
5 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) NetApp
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds