Storage and Backup Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Storage and Backup Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Storage and Backup Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 331 414
Rank change year-on-year +27 +83 -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Consultant 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.008% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.008% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £375 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £500 £390
% change year-on-year -30.00% +28.21% -17.89%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,221 12,081 19,925
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 93.60% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,062 7,994 14,065
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.41% -2.29%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 334 477
10th Percentile £13.28 £17.20 £16.99
25th Percentile £18.67 £28.31 £24.62
Median hourly rate £36.64 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.58% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £68.75
90th Percentile £69.56 £75.00 £80.10
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.32
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.73% +66.60%

Storage and Backup Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Storage and Backup Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Storage and Backup Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Storage and Backup Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Storage and Backup Consultant job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Storage and Backup Consultant job vacancies

Storage and Backup Consultant Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Storage and Backup Consultant 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Storage and Backup Consultant in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Isilon
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance

Storage and Backup Consultant Skill Set
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 2 (100.00%) SAN
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Isilon
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware