Storage Virtualisation Contracts

Storage Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Storage Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Storage Virtualisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 575 687
Rank change year-on-year +60 +112 +168
Contract jobs citing Storage Virtualisation 5 7 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.016% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.019% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile £537 £526 £456
25th Percentile £635 £554 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.75% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £700 £661 £578
90th Percentile - £697 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £695 £693 £550
% change year-on-year +0.22% +26.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Storage Virtualisation 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Storage Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Virtualisation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Virtualisation in the UK

Storage Virtualisation
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Virtualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +64 5 £695 +0.22% 2
England +58 4 £700 +25.56% 1
Midlands - 4 £700 -
West Midlands - 4 £700 -
Work from Home +42 2 £695 +15.75%
Scotland +10 1 £472 -31.89% 1

Storage Virtualisation
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 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Flash
1 1 (20.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) VMS
2 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) GPFS
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Brocade
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Foundry
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas