Storage Management Contracts

Storage Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Storage Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Storage Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 515 620
Rank change year-on-year +88 +105 -95
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 165 193 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.37% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 128 164
10th Percentile £350 £421 £353
25th Percentile £405 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £641 £575
90th Percentile £688 £750 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £530 £427
% change year-on-year +1.89% +24.12% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +225.00% -28.52%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +225.00% -28.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Storage Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 +125 138 £450 -21.05% 61
UK excluding London +55 94 £540 +1.89% 44
Work from Home +89 52 £439 -20.69% 15
London +72 49 £393 -30.53% 15
North of England +57 32 £415 +7.10% 8
Yorkshire +49 32 £415 +7.10% 4
South East +35 28 £605 +5.22% 16
Scotland +16 14 £675 +23.40% 1
Midlands +31 13 £750 +20.00% 10
West Midlands +19 10 £750 +10.09% 5
East of England +9 4 £450 -43.75% 6
East Midlands +23 3 £350 -26.32% 5
South West +9 3 £323 -38.86% 4

Storage Management
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 8 (4.85%) Confluence
2 5 (3.03%) IIS
2 5 (3.03%) SAS
3 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.82%) Apache
5 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.21%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.61%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) JBoss
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.24%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.82%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 62 (37.58%) Azure
2 38 (23.03%) AWS
3 32 (19.39%) GitHub
4 18 (10.91%) IaaS
5 15 (9.09%) SaaS
6 14 (8.48%) OCI
7 13 (7.88%) GCP
8 12 (7.27%) Entra ID
9 10 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (6.06%) PaaS
10 9 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.45%) Nutanix
10 9 (5.45%) Power Platform
10 9 (5.45%) Rubrik
11 6 (3.64%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (3.64%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (3.64%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (27.27%) Firewall
2 37 (22.42%) SAN
3 34 (20.61%) DNS
4 28 (16.97%) DHCP
5 15 (9.09%) LAN
5 15 (9.09%) VPN
5 15 (9.09%) WAN
6 13 (7.88%) WLAN
7 12 (7.27%) TCP/IP
8 11 (6.67%) MPLS
8 11 (6.67%) VoIP
9 10 (6.06%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (6.06%) NAS
9 10 (6.06%) VLAN
10 9 (5.45%) PBX
11 8 (4.85%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (4.85%) iSCSI
11 8 (4.85%) Kerberos
11 8 (4.85%) SSL
12 7 (4.24%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.85%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.03%) DB2
6 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.42%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.42%) MySQL
6 4 (2.42%) Power BI
7 3 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.82%) Parquet
7 3 (1.82%) QlikView
7 3 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.21%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (1.21%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 28 (16.97%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.06%) Git
2 10 (6.06%) GitLab
3 9 (5.45%) JIRA
4 8 (4.85%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Ant
6 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.12%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.85%) Back Office
5 8 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Banking
8 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.42%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Marketing
10 2 (1.21%) Electronics
10 2 (1.21%) Law
10 2 (1.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (17.58%) Storage Manager
2 26 (15.76%) Architect
2 26 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (10.30%) Storage Engineer
4 11 (6.67%) DBA
5 8 (4.85%) Administrator
6 7 (4.24%) AWS Architect
6 7 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.24%) SQL DBA
7 6 (3.64%) Database Specialist
7 6 (3.64%) Developer
7 6 (3.64%) Lead
7 6 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (3.64%) Platform Specialist
7 6 (3.64%) Senior
7 6 (3.64%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.03%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.03%) Storage Specialist
8 5 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.52%) YAML
2 9 (5.45%) REST
2 9 (5.45%) Web Services
3 8 (4.85%) LDAP
3 8 (4.85%) SOAP
4 5 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.03%) Flash
4 5 (3.03%) POSIX
5 3 (1.82%) PySpark
6 2 (1.21%) .NET
6 2 (1.21%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.21%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.21%) Node.js
6 2 (1.21%) OAuth
6 2 (1.21%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.21%) RESTful
7 1 (0.61%) EDI
7 1 (0.61%) ISPF
7 1 (0.61%) Middleware
7 1 (0.61%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 19 (11.52%) Clustering
3 18 (10.91%) Replication
4 17 (10.30%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.03%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.03%) NVMe
6 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.21%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.21%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.21%) NHS
7 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) Tandem
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 81 (49.09%) Linux
2 51 (30.91%) Windows
3 39 (23.64%) Windows Server
4 28 (16.97%) zOS
5 19 (11.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (10.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (9.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (9.70%) Windows 10
8 15 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (8.48%) Windows XP
10 10 (6.06%) Solaris
10 10 (6.06%) Unix
11 8 (4.85%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (3.64%) VMS
13 4 (2.42%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (1.21%) CentOS
14 2 (1.21%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.09%) Project Management
2 46 (27.88%) Agile
3 43 (26.06%) Migration
4 41 (24.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 37 (22.42%) Performance Tuning
6 33 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 33 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (18.79%) DevOps
8 30 (18.18%) ITIL
9 29 (17.58%) High Availability
10 26 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (14.55%) Server Management
12 24 (14.55%) Software Testing
13 21 (12.73%) Cost Management
14 19 (11.52%) Capacity Management
14 19 (11.52%) Proactive Monitoring
15 16 (9.70%) Change Management
16 15 (9.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.24%) Python
2 36 (21.82%) PowerShell
3 32 (19.39%) SQL
4 25 (15.15%) JCL
5 20 (12.12%) Bash
5 20 (12.12%) REXX
6 14 (8.48%) Java
7 7 (4.24%) Perl
8 5 (3.03%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.03%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.82%) Bicep
9 3 (1.82%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.21%) AWK
10 2 (1.21%) Bourne shell
10 2 (1.21%) Korn
10 2 (1.21%) Scala
10 2 (1.21%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.21%) VBA
11 1 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.00%) Degree
3 31 (18.79%) SC Cleared
4 26 (15.76%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (11.52%) CCNP
6 16 (9.70%) CCNA
6 16 (9.70%) DV Cleared
7 10 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 10 (6.06%) CCIE
8 9 (5.45%) CCIE Data Center
9 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.42%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.42%) PMP
12 3 (1.82%) MCITP
12 3 (1.82%) MCSE
12 3 (1.82%) MCTS
13 2 (1.21%) RHCE
13 2 (1.21%) RHCSA
13 2 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.85%) GDPR
1 8 (4.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.42%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) SLA
3 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.21%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (24.24%) Active Directory
2 37 (22.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (16.97%) NFS
4 24 (14.55%) Time Sharing Option
5 16 (9.70%) Docker
5 16 (9.70%) Hyper-V
5 16 (9.70%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (6.67%) vSphere
7 4 (2.42%) GPFS
7 4 (2.42%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.21%) Firmware
9 1 (0.61%) KVM
9 1 (0.61%) RACF
9 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (27.27%) Ansible
2 41 (24.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 30 (18.18%) Terraform
4 22 (13.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 20 (12.12%) SCCM
6 16 (9.70%) NetBackup
6 16 (9.70%) vCenter Server
7 15 (9.09%) WSUS
8 14 (8.48%) Kubernetes
8 14 (8.48%) SCOM
9 8 (4.85%) Netcool
9 8 (4.85%) Tivoli
10 7 (4.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (2.42%) Puppet
11 4 (2.42%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.42%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 2 (1.21%) Data Guard
12 2 (1.21%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.21%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (1.21%) yum
Vendors
1 55 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 54 (32.73%) Dell
3 49 (29.70%) IBM
4 45 (27.27%) VMware
5 43 (26.06%) Oracle
6 36 (21.82%) Cisco
7 29 (17.58%) Broadcom
8 28 (16.97%) EMC
9 27 (16.36%) Brocade
10 24 (14.55%) Palo Alto
11 23 (13.94%) CA
11 23 (13.94%) HP
12 19 (11.52%) Symantec
13 16 (9.70%) Juniper
13 16 (9.70%) Veeam
14 14 (8.48%) 3PAR
14 14 (8.48%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (7.27%) Red Hat
15 12 (7.27%) ServiceNow
16 8 (4.85%) Qualys