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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 512 638
Rank change year-on-year +86 +126 -110
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 155 183 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.36% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 120 162
10th Percentile £350 £411 £381
25th Percentile £404 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +0.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £600
90th Percentile £688 £731 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £436
% change year-on-year +2.86% +20.34% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +225.00% -24.31%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +225.00% -24.31%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 +126 131 £450 -16.67% 80
UK excluding London +53 93 £540 +2.86% 61
Work from Home +74 48 £450 -17.39% 33
London +88 44 £385 -30.00% 24
North of England +57 32 £415 +5.40% 14
Yorkshire +49 32 £415 +7.10% 3
South East +32 28 £605 +15.24% 18
Scotland +14 13 £684 +25.05% 4
Midlands +14 13 £750 +26.58% 13
West Midlands +19 10 £750 +9.09% 10
East of England +12 4 £450 -43.75% 12
East Midlands +15 3 £350 -30.00% 3
South West +3 3 £323 -38.86% 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 6 (3.87%) Confluence
2 5 (3.23%) SAS
3 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.94%) Apache
5 2 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.29%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.65%) JBoss
6 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.52%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.94%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 55 (35.48%) Azure
2 33 (21.29%) AWS
3 32 (20.65%) GitHub
4 15 (9.68%) IaaS
5 14 (9.03%) OCI
6 13 (8.39%) SaaS
7 11 (7.10%) GCP
8 10 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.81%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.16%) PaaS
11 7 (4.52%) Nutanix
12 6 (3.87%) AWS CodeBuild
12 6 (3.87%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 6 (3.87%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.87%) Rubrik
13 5 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (3.23%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.23%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (23.87%) Firewall
2 35 (22.58%) SAN
3 27 (17.42%) DNS
4 26 (16.77%) DHCP
5 14 (9.03%) LAN
5 14 (9.03%) WAN
6 13 (8.39%) VPN
7 11 (7.10%) MPLS
7 11 (7.10%) VoIP
8 10 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
8 10 (6.45%) WLAN
9 9 (5.81%) PBX
9 9 (5.81%) TCP/IP
10 8 (5.16%) iSCSI
10 8 (5.16%) NAS
10 8 (5.16%) VLAN
11 7 (4.52%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (3.87%) Kerberos
13 5 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.16%) Oracle Database
3 8 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.58%) DB2
5 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.58%) MySQL
5 4 (2.58%) Power BI
6 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (1.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.94%) Parquet
6 3 (1.94%) QlikView
6 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 26 (16.77%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.45%) GitLab
3 9 (5.81%) Git
4 7 (4.52%) JIRA
5 6 (3.87%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.94%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.65%) Ant
7 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.65%) Maven
7 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.26%) Finance
3 15 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.10%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.16%) Back Office
5 8 (5.16%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Marketing
9 2 (1.29%) Electronics
9 2 (1.29%) Law
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (19.35%) Storage Manager
2 26 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (16.13%) Architect
4 17 (10.97%) Storage Engineer
5 10 (6.45%) DBA
6 8 (5.16%) Administrator
6 8 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (4.52%) AWS Architect
7 7 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.87%) Database Specialist
8 6 (3.87%) Developer
8 6 (3.87%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (3.87%) Network Engineer
8 6 (3.87%) Platform Specialist
8 6 (3.87%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.87%) SQL DBA
8 6 (3.87%) Support Engineer
9 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (3.23%) Senior
9 5 (3.23%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.26%) YAML
2 9 (5.81%) REST
2 9 (5.81%) Web Services
3 8 (5.16%) SOAP
4 6 (3.87%) LDAP
5 5 (3.23%) Flash
5 5 (3.23%) POSIX
6 3 (1.94%) PySpark
7 2 (1.29%) .NET
7 2 (1.29%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.29%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.29%) Node.js
7 2 (1.29%) OAuth
7 2 (1.29%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.29%) RESTful
8 1 (0.65%) EDI
8 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.65%) ISPF
8 1 (0.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.39%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.97%) Clustering
3 16 (10.32%) Replication
4 12 (7.74%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.23%) NVMe
6 4 (2.58%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.29%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.29%) NHS
8 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.29%) Tandem
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.65%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 73 (47.10%) Linux
2 42 (27.10%) Windows
3 36 (23.23%) Windows Server
4 27 (17.42%) zOS
5 18 (11.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (11.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (10.32%) Windows 10
7 14 (9.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (9.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (9.03%) Windows XP
8 10 (6.45%) Unix
9 8 (5.16%) Solaris
10 6 (3.87%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (2.58%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.65%) VMS
12 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.97%) Project Management
2 41 (26.45%) Agile
3 37 (23.87%) Disaster Recovery
4 36 (23.23%) Migration
5 35 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
6 33 (21.29%) Problem Management
7 32 (20.65%) ITIL
7 32 (20.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (16.77%) High Availability
8 26 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (16.13%) DevOps
10 24 (15.48%) Software Testing
11 23 (14.84%) Server Management
12 22 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (14.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (13.55%) Cost Management
14 19 (12.26%) Proactive Monitoring
15 16 (10.32%) Capacity Management
15 16 (10.32%) Change Management
16 15 (9.68%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.16%) Python
2 27 (17.42%) PowerShell
3 26 (16.77%) SQL
4 25 (16.13%) JCL
5 20 (12.90%) REXX
6 18 (11.61%) Bash
7 14 (9.03%) Java
8 7 (4.52%) Perl
9 6 (3.87%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.58%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.94%) Bicep
11 3 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.29%) AWK
12 2 (1.29%) Bourne shell
12 2 (1.29%) Korn
12 2 (1.29%) Scala
12 2 (1.29%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.29%) VBA
13 1 (0.65%) R
13 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (21.94%) Degree
2 31 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 28 (18.06%) SC Cleared
4 26 (16.77%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (12.26%) CCNP
6 16 (10.32%) CCNA
6 16 (10.32%) DV Cleared
7 10 (6.45%) Azure Certification
7 10 (6.45%) CCIE
8 9 (5.81%) CCIE Data Center
8 9 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.58%) PMI Certification
10 4 (2.58%) PMP
11 3 (1.94%) MCITP
11 3 (1.94%) MCSE
11 3 (1.94%) MCTS
12 2 (1.29%) RHCE
12 2 (1.29%) RHCSA
12 2 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) GDPR
1 6 (3.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.58%) QA
2 4 (2.58%) SLA
3 3 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 35 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 28 (18.06%) NFS
4 24 (15.48%) Time Sharing Option
5 16 (10.32%) Hyper-V
5 16 (10.32%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (9.03%) Docker
7 10 (6.45%) vSphere
8 4 (2.58%) GPFS
9 3 (1.94%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.29%) Firmware
11 1 (0.65%) KVM
11 1 (0.65%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 41 (26.45%) Ansible
2 39 (25.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 26 (16.77%) Terraform
4 20 (12.90%) EMC NetWorker
5 16 (10.32%) NetBackup
5 16 (10.32%) vCenter Server
6 15 (9.68%) SCCM
7 14 (9.03%) SCOM
7 14 (9.03%) WSUS
8 13 (8.39%) Kubernetes
9 7 (4.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 6 (3.87%) Netcool
10 6 (3.87%) Tivoli
11 4 (2.58%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.58%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 2 (1.29%) Data Guard
12 2 (1.29%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (1.29%) Oracle ZFS
12 2 (1.29%) Puppet
12 2 (1.29%) yum
Vendors
1 55 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 52 (33.55%) Dell
3 46 (29.68%) IBM
4 42 (27.10%) VMware
5 41 (26.45%) Oracle
6 32 (20.65%) Cisco
7 29 (18.71%) Broadcom
8 27 (17.42%) Brocade
9 26 (16.77%) EMC
10 23 (14.84%) CA
11 22 (14.19%) Palo Alto
12 20 (12.90%) HP
13 19 (12.26%) Symantec
14 18 (11.61%) Juniper
15 16 (10.32%) Veeam
16 14 (9.03%) 3PAR
16 14 (9.03%) Extreme Networks
17 12 (7.74%) Red Hat
18 10 (6.45%) ServiceNow
19 8 (5.16%) SolarWinds