Storage Engineer Contracts

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in the UK is £473, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 503 616
Rank change year-on-year +28 +113 +143
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 44 97 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.24% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 69 60
10th Percentile £385 £413 £350
25th Percentile £411 £475 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £540 £523
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +3.35% +16.11%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £583
90th Percentile £609 £608 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £421 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -22.04% +8.00% +17.65%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Storage Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 30 £500 -7.41% 20
UK excluding London -11 20 £421 -22.04% 5
Work from Home +41 18 £421 -22.04% 8
London +38 10 £563 +9.22% 12
North West +11 8 £488 +25.00% 1
North of England +7 8 £488 -6.16% 1
Scotland +6 5 £421 -31.82%
Midlands +23 4 - - 2
West Midlands - 4 - - 2
South West +35 1 £340 -32.00% 1
East of England +29 1 - -
South East +19 1 £375 -37.76% 1

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (45.45%) SAN
2 19 (43.18%) Windows
3 14 (31.82%) Linux
3 14 (31.82%) Dell
3 14 (31.82%) Storage Management
4 13 (29.55%) VMware
5 11 (25.00%) Finance
5 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 9 (20.45%) Change Management
6 9 (20.45%) EMC
7 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
7 8 (18.18%) HP
7 8 (18.18%) Firmware
7 8 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
8 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
8 7 (15.91%) Banking
8 7 (15.91%) Migration
9 6 (13.64%) Brocade
9 6 (13.64%) Hitachi
9 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (13.64%) Cisco
10 5 (11.36%) Python
10 5 (11.36%) NetBackup
10 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving

Storage Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (2.27%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
1 4 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (2.27%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 20 (45.45%) SAN
2 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (9.09%) LAN
2 4 (9.09%) NAS
3 3 (6.82%) FCoE
3 3 (6.82%) iSCSI
4 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.27%) DNS
5 1 (2.27%) SSL
5 1 (2.27%) VPN
5 1 (2.27%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (15.91%) Banking
3 4 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Legal
4 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (15.91%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.82%) EMC VMAX
3 3 (6.82%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Windows
2 14 (31.82%) Linux
3 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.82%) CentOS
5 3 (6.82%) Unix
5 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.27%) AIX
6 1 (2.27%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.27%) HPUX
6 1 (2.27%) Solaris
6 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Storage Management
2 9 (20.45%) Change Management
3 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
4 7 (15.91%) Migration
5 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 3 (6.82%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (6.82%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.82%) Task Automation
7 3 (6.82%) Technology Roadmap
8 2 (4.55%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (4.55%) Internal Audit
8 2 (4.55%) ITIL
8 2 (4.55%) Performance Optimisation
9 1 (2.27%) Data Migration
9 1 (2.27%) Incident Management
9 1 (2.27%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) EMC Certification
3 1 (2.27%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Firmware
1 8 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) NetBackup
2 4 (9.09%) Ansible
2 4 (9.09%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (6.82%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (2.27%) Avamar
4 1 (2.27%) EMC TimeFinder
4 1 (2.27%) SCCM
4 1 (2.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Dell
2 13 (29.55%) VMware
3 9 (20.45%) EMC
4 8 (18.18%) HP
5 6 (13.64%) Brocade
5 6 (13.64%) Cisco
5 6 (13.64%) Hitachi
6 4 (9.09%) F5
6 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.82%) Pure Storage
7 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
7 3 (6.82%) Veritas
8 2 (4.55%) NetApp
9 1 (2.27%) Broadcom
9 1 (2.27%) IBM
9 1 (2.27%) Remedy
9 1 (2.27%) Veeam
9 1 (2.27%) Zerto
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