Storage Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Storage Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Storage Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £421, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 317 429
Rank change year-on-year +31 +112 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 18 28 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 31
10th Percentile £376 £413 £420
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.04% +2.86% +23.53%
75th Percentile £566 £564 £587
90th Percentile £592 £593 £650
UK median daily rate £473 £540 £523
% change year-on-year -12.46% +3.35% +16.11%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Storage Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Storage Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Storage Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Unix
4 3 (16.67%) Dell
4 3 (16.67%) SAN
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (5.56%) Avamar
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
6 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.56%) ITSM

Storage Engineer 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) FCoE
2 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.56%) AIX
5 1 (5.56%) HPUX
5 1 (5.56%) Solaris
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (11.11%) Change Management
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (11.11%) Migration
2 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
3 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.56%) ITSM
3 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
3 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (5.56%) Server Building
3 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
3 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Firmware
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Avamar
1 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
1 1 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) Hitachi
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) NetApp
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) Zerto