Storage Specialist Contract Job Trends

Storage Specialist
UK

The median Storage Specialist daily rate in the UK is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 554 589
Rank change year-on-year -22 +35 +209
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Specialist 6 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.034% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.036% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £519 £449 £340
25th Percentile £547 £522 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +14.58% -20.00%
75th Percentile £650 £565 -
90th Percentile - - £481
UK excluding London median daily rate - £558 £480
% change year-on-year - +16.15% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 32,727 33,118 42,499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.81% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,756 20,117 28,647
10th Percentile £284 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,905 1,179 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.32 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.63 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +44.26%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Storage Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Storage Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK

Storage Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Storage Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Specialist over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Specialist in the UK

Storage Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Storage Specialist
Top 6 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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 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 -41 6 £613 +9.87% 66
London +10 4 £613 +11.36% 2
Work from Home +2 3 £500 -9.09% 72
Yorkshire -38 1 - - 7
UK excluding London -50 1 - - 69
North of England -53 1 - - 15

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

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, Storage Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Data Discovery
3 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) ICL
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) JCL
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) PLM
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis

Storage Specialist 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Data Discovery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) PLM
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) ICL
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Qualys
3 1 (16.67%) Varonis