Storage Management Contracts

Storage Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Storage Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Storage Management over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 426 519
Rank change year-on-year +48 +93 +108
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 147 153 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.36% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.42% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 94 120
10th Percentile £351 £350 £411
25th Percentile £408 £403 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -11.21% +1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £638
90th Percentile £625 £676 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £540 £530
% change year-on-year -12.04% +1.89% +23.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Storage Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 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 +32 106 £500 +11.11% 76
Work from Home +61 72 £469 +4.17% 42
UK excluding London +21 69 £475 -12.04% 39
London +64 61 £498 +29.22% 42
Scotland +16 24 £452 -33.99% 2
Midlands +20 16 £500 -33.33% 2
West Midlands +11 16 £500 -33.33% 1
South East +25 12 £413 -31.82% 15
North of England +2 12 £450 +8.43% 11
North West - 9 £488 - 6
East of England +25 4 £500 +11.11% 6
Yorkshire -12 3 £405 -2.41% 5
Wales - 1 - -

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 11 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.76%) Apache
3 6 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.08%) Confluence
4 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.36%) CMS
6 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.68%) Documentum
7 1 (0.68%) FileNet
7 1 (0.68%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.68%) JBoss
7 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.73%) Azure
2 32 (21.77%) AWS
3 28 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 21 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (13.61%) Azure Machine Learning
6 14 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (6.80%) Entra ID
8 8 (5.44%) GitHub
9 6 (4.08%) GCP
9 6 (4.08%) IaaS
9 6 (4.08%) Nutanix
9 6 (4.08%) PaaS
9 6 (4.08%) SaaS
10 5 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.40%) Serverless
11 4 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.72%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.72%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.72%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.33%) SAN
2 11 (7.48%) NAS
3 10 (6.80%) Internet
4 7 (4.76%) DNS
4 7 (4.76%) LAN
4 7 (4.76%) Network Security
5 6 (4.08%) Firewall
5 6 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.40%) iSCSI
6 5 (3.40%) VPN
7 4 (2.72%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (2.04%) DHCP
8 3 (2.04%) WLAN
9 2 (1.36%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.68%) SSL
10 1 (0.68%) VLAN
10 1 (0.68%) WAN
10 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.05%) Power BI
2 21 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 19 (12.93%) Neo4j
4 10 (6.80%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.76%) Metadata
7 5 (3.40%) FileMaker
7 5 (3.40%) Oracle Database
7 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.72%) Big Data
8 4 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.04%) Flink
9 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.36%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.36%) MySQL
10 2 (1.36%) Redis
10 2 (1.36%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Git
2 8 (5.44%) JIRA
3 6 (4.08%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.40%) Subversion
5 2 (1.36%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Ant
6 1 (0.68%) GitLab
6 1 (0.68%) Maven
6 1 (0.68%) MLflow
6 1 (0.68%) Serena SBM
6 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (21.09%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.88%) Finance
4 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.08%) Banking
5 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Legal
7 4 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.36%) Electronics
8 2 (1.36%) Marketing
8 2 (1.36%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (10.20%) Administrator
2 15 (10.20%) Analyst
2 15 (10.20%) Data Engineer
3 13 (8.84%) Architect
3 13 (8.84%) Storage Engineer
4 12 (8.16%) Lead
5 11 (7.48%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (7.48%) Programmer
5 11 (7.48%) Python Programmer
5 11 (7.48%) Technical Analyst
6 10 (6.80%) Senior
7 9 (6.12%) Developer
8 8 (5.44%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.44%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) IT Manager
10 6 (4.08%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.29%) React
2 20 (13.61%) Plotly
3 9 (6.12%) LDAP
4 7 (4.76%) OAuth
5 6 (4.08%) Keycloak
5 6 (4.08%) PySpark
5 6 (4.08%) REST
6 5 (3.40%) Apache NiFi
6 5 (3.40%) Kafka
6 5 (3.40%) OpenID
6 5 (3.40%) SAML
7 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (2.72%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.72%) RESTful
8 3 (2.04%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.04%) X-Windows
8 3 (2.04%) YAML
9 2 (1.36%) ADO
9 2 (1.36%) HTML
9 2 (1.36%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.80%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.44%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.44%) Replication
4 7 (4.76%) Clustering
4 7 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.40%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.40%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.36%) CMDB
8 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.36%) SCADA
8 2 (1.36%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.68%) PKI
9 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 57 (38.78%) Linux
2 34 (23.13%) Windows
3 30 (20.41%) Unix
4 22 (14.97%) Windows Server
5 14 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.08%) Solaris
6 6 (4.08%) VMS
7 5 (3.40%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.40%) Mac OS X
8 4 (2.72%) AIX
9 3 (2.04%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (1.36%) zOS
11 1 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (17.69%) Visualisation
3 25 (17.01%) Data Integration
4 24 (16.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (15.65%) DevOps
5 23 (15.65%) Machine Learning
6 22 (14.97%) Analytics
7 21 (14.29%) Agile
7 21 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
8 18 (12.24%) Capacity Management
9 16 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (10.88%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (10.88%) Technical Analysis
10 14 (9.52%) CI/CD
10 14 (9.52%) High Availability
11 13 (8.84%) Roadmaps
12 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (8.16%) OO
13 11 (7.48%) ETL
13 11 (7.48%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 42 (28.57%) Python
2 21 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 18 (12.24%) Perl
4 15 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 15 (10.20%) SQL
5 9 (6.12%) Bash
6 6 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.04%) C#
8 2 (1.36%) Bicep
8 2 (1.36%) Go
8 2 (1.36%) Java
8 2 (1.36%) JCL
8 2 (1.36%) R
8 2 (1.36%) REXX
9 1 (0.68%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Rust
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.36%) EMC Certification
6 2 (1.36%) RHCSA
7 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CISM
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) Degree
7 1 (0.68%) GIAC
7 1 (0.68%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.12%) GDPR
3 7 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (3.40%) SLA
6 4 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.04%) NIST
8 2 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (1.36%) QA
9 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (13.61%) Active Directory
1 20 (13.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (10.88%) Docker
3 9 (6.12%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.04%) Firmware
5 3 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.04%) NFS
5 3 (2.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.36%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.68%) GPFS
7 1 (0.68%) KVM
7 1 (0.68%) Microcode
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 20 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.93%) Ansible
3 14 (9.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 13 (8.84%) Terraform
5 10 (6.80%) Tivoli
6 9 (6.12%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (3.40%) NetBackup
8 5 (3.40%) QRadar
8 5 (3.40%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.72%) Puppet
9 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (2.04%) Backup Exec
10 3 (2.04%) Grafana
10 3 (2.04%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.36%) Avamar
11 2 (1.36%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (1.36%) Kibana
11 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (22.45%) VMware
2 24 (16.33%) Databricks
3 22 (14.97%) Microsoft
4 17 (11.56%) EMC
5 13 (8.84%) IBM
6 12 (8.16%) Oracle
6 12 (8.16%) Red Hat
7 10 (6.80%) Cisco
7 10 (6.80%) Splunk
8 9 (6.12%) ServiceNow
9 7 (4.76%) Brocade
9 7 (4.76%) Dell
9 7 (4.76%) Qualys
10 6 (4.08%) CyberArk
10 6 (4.08%) NetApp
10 6 (4.08%) Veritas
11 4 (2.72%) HP
11 4 (2.72%) SaltStack
11 4 (2.72%) SAP
12 3 (2.04%) Sybase