Storage Engineer Contracts

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 625 735
Rank change year-on-year +132 +110 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 93 97 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 61 76
10th Percentile £413 £350 £297
25th Percentile £466 £420 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £561
90th Percentile £608 £650 £609
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +4.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Storage Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +127 82 £525 - 19
UK excluding London +108 81 £525 +5.00% 17
North of England +56 29 £520 +7.11% 1
Work from Home +106 27 £540 +2.86% 9
South East +26 23 £578 +10.00% 6
Yorkshire +40 19 £533 +9.79% 1
South West +32 11 £500 +81.82% 3
Scotland +16 8 £618 +18.75%
North West - 8 £390 -
London +68 7 £515 -5.50% 3
Midlands +25 5 £575 +64.29% 2
East Midlands +19 5 £575 +70.37%
East of England +11 4 £550 +41.94% 3
North East - 2 £400 -
Wales - 1 - - 2

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Storage Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (49.46%) SAN
1 46 (49.46%) VMware
2 40 (43.01%) Windows
2 40 (43.01%) Linux
3 34 (36.56%) EMC
4 33 (35.48%) Security Cleared
5 32 (34.41%) Social Skills
6 30 (32.26%) Dell
7 26 (27.96%) Cisco
7 26 (27.96%) DV Cleared
7 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (26.88%) VMware Infrastructure
9 22 (23.66%) NetBackup
10 19 (20.43%) ITIL
11 17 (18.28%) SC Cleared
11 17 (18.28%) Data Centre
12 16 (17.20%) Windows Server
12 16 (17.20%) PowerShell
13 15 (16.13%) Data Protection
13 15 (16.13%) NAS
13 15 (16.13%) Azure
13 15 (16.13%) Brocade
13 15 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
13 15 (16.13%) Storage Management
14 14 (15.05%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (15.05%) Ansible
14 14 (15.05%) vCenter Server
14 14 (15.05%) Veritas
14 14 (15.05%) Migration
15 13 (13.98%) Replication

Storage Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (5.38%) SAS
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.13%) Azure
2 8 (8.60%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) OCI
3 4 (4.30%) IaaS
3 4 (4.30%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.15%) Cohesity
4 2 (2.15%) GCP
4 2 (2.15%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon CloudSearch
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (49.46%) SAN
2 15 (16.13%) NAS
3 10 (10.75%) Fibre Channel
4 9 (9.68%) DHCP
4 9 (9.68%) DNS
5 8 (8.60%) Firewall
5 8 (8.60%) VLAN
6 6 (6.45%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) DB2
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
General
1 32 (34.41%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.90%) Finance
4 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Legal
6 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Front Office
8 1 (1.08%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) Flash
2 5 (5.38%) POSIX
3 2 (2.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.98%) Replication
3 4 (4.30%) Client/Server
3 4 (4.30%) HP Storage
3 4 (4.30%) NVMe
4 3 (3.23%) EMC VNX
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.08%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 40 (43.01%) Linux
1 40 (43.01%) Windows
2 16 (17.20%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.75%) AIX
4 9 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (8.60%) Solaris
5 8 (8.60%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (8.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (8.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (8.60%) Windows XP
6 7 (7.53%) Unix
7 5 (5.38%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (20.43%) ITIL
3 15 (16.13%) Data Protection
3 15 (16.13%) Storage Management
4 14 (15.05%) Migration
4 14 (15.05%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (12.90%) Service Delivery
6 11 (11.83%) Change Management
7 9 (9.68%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (9.68%) Performance Analysis
8 8 (8.60%) Break/Fix
8 8 (8.60%) Converged Infrastructure
8 8 (8.60%) DevOps
8 8 (8.60%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (8.60%) Performance Monitoring
8 8 (8.60%) Proactive Monitoring
8 8 (8.60%) Project Management
8 8 (8.60%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.20%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.75%) Python
3 8 (8.60%) SQL
4 6 (6.45%) Perl
5 5 (5.38%) Java
6 3 (3.23%) Bash
7 1 (1.08%) JCL
Qualifications
1 33 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.96%) DV Cleared
3 17 (18.28%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.83%) Degree
5 8 (8.60%) CCNA
5 8 (8.60%) CCNP
5 8 (8.60%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 25 (26.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (16.13%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (10.75%) Active Directory
4 9 (9.68%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.60%) Docker
6 6 (6.45%) Firmware
7 5 (5.38%) NFS
8 4 (4.30%) GPFS
9 3 (3.23%) SRDF
9 3 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) NetBackup
2 14 (15.05%) Ansible
2 14 (15.05%) vCenter Server
3 13 (13.98%) EMC NetWorker
4 9 (9.68%) Puppet
4 9 (9.68%) SCCM
5 8 (8.60%) Avamar
5 8 (8.60%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.60%) SCOM
5 8 (8.60%) WSUS
6 4 (4.30%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 3 (3.23%) EMC TimeFinder
7 3 (3.23%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 46 (49.46%) VMware
2 34 (36.56%) EMC
3 30 (32.26%) Dell
4 26 (27.96%) Cisco
5 15 (16.13%) Brocade
6 14 (15.05%) Veritas
7 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
8 12 (12.90%) HP
9 11 (11.83%) NetApp
9 11 (11.83%) Oracle
9 11 (11.83%) Symantec
10 10 (10.75%) Veeam
11 8 (8.60%) 3PAR
11 8 (8.60%) Extreme Networks
11 8 (8.60%) IBM
11 8 (8.60%) Juniper
11 8 (8.60%) Palo Alto
12 4 (4.30%) Google
12 4 (4.30%) Red Hat
12 4 (4.30%) Sybase