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 £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 297 401
Rank change year-on-year -10 +104 +154
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 6 27 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 26
10th Percentile - £379 £388
25th Percentile £411 £416 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% +2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £600
90th Percentile £705 £594 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +15.04%

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 9,349 12,119 20,123
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.59% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,165 8,071 14,218
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 341 493
10th Percentile £13.15 £17.50 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.21 £28.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £68.75
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Storage Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Storage Engineer job vacancies

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Commvault
2 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) FCoE
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) CloudBees
1 1 (16.67%) Datadog
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) FCoE
1 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (16.67%) Change Management
1 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
1 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum
1 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
1 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Commvault
1 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas