Hybrid/Remote Enterprise Storage Contract Job Trends

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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 302 339
Rank change year-on-year -46 +37 +96
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 13 11 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.097% 0.11% 0.015%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.26% 0.31% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 0
10th Percentile £401 £410 -
25th Percentile £460 £411 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £421 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.36% - -
75th Percentile £533 £495 -
90th Percentile £635 £575 -
UK median daily rate £500 £421 £494
% change year-on-year +18.76% -14.73% +6.76%

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 4,992 3,501 4,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.07% 34.32% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,090 2,282 2,772
10th Percentile £364 £343 £325
25th Percentile £438 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 113 136
10th Percentile £20.70 £14.78 £19.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £24.77 £30.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -38.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £87.66 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +12.68%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Enterprise Storage and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Storage job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Enterprise Storage over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Enterprise Storage daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Enterprise Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Rubrik
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
3 1 (7.69%) Cohesity
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
3 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (23.08%) NAS
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Backup Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Storage Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Backup Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Storage Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) eBPF
1 2 (15.38%) Loki
2 1 (7.69%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Replication
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (15.38%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (15.38%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) AS400
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) EMC VNX
4 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (7.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (46.15%) Data Protection
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) Storage Management
6 2 (15.38%) Change Control
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
6 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
6 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) NCDA
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) NCIE
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 2 (15.38%) NFS
2 2 (15.38%) SRDF
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Firmware
3 1 (7.69%) KVM
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
1 3 (23.08%) NetBackup
1 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Avamar
2 2 (15.38%) Cilium
2 2 (15.38%) SnapMirror
3 1 (7.69%) Argo
3 1 (7.69%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (7.69%) SnapVault
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) NetApp
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Veeam
4 4 (30.77%) Brocade
4 4 (30.77%) EMC
5 3 (23.08%) Pure Storage
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco
6 2 (15.38%) Dell
6 2 (15.38%) IBM
7 1 (7.69%) 3PAR
7 1 (7.69%) Oracle
7 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
7 1 (7.69%) Veritas