Enterprise Storage Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Enterprise Storage
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage 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 289 343 465
Rank change year-on-year +54 +122 +140
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 15 2 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.013% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.045% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 10
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £411 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.80%
75th Percentile £566 - £541
90th Percentile £645 - £585
UK median daily rate £421 £400 £378
% change year-on-year +5.25% +5.82% -3.39%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Enterprise Storage falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Enterprise Storage
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Enterprise Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Storage trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Enterprise Storage.

Enterprise Storage daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Enterprise Storage over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Enterprise Storage daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Enterprise Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DHCP
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (20.00%) Internet
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
General
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Lead
5 3 (20.00%) Network Specialist
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Network Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Storage Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) EMC VNX
2 1 (6.67%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (26.67%) High Availability
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (20.00%) Network Design
3 3 (20.00%) Network Management
3 3 (20.00%) Network Security Management
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Security Management
4 1 (6.67%) BCP
4 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity
4 1 (6.67%) Change Management
4 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.67%) Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Service Management
4 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) 3PAR
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
2 4 (26.67%) HP
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (26.67%) Veritas
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) EMC
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) NetApp
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto