Storage Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Storage Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Storage Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Storage Management 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 234 292 388
Rank change year-on-year +58 +96 +122
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 70 53 89
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.39% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 26 67
10th Percentile £349 £313 £470
25th Percentile £402 £403 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £445 £557
Median % change year-on-year +5.46% -20.20% +6.10%
75th Percentile £588 £481 £700
90th Percentile £623 £548 £748
UK median daily rate £474 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +2.93% -16.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Storage Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Storage Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Storage Management
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 Management.

Storage Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Storage Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Storage Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Storage Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Storage Management
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 3 (4.29%) OpenStack
1 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Documentum
2 1 (1.43%) FileNet
2 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.00%) Azure
2 23 (32.86%) Power Platform
3 22 (31.43%) AWS
4 18 (25.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (25.71%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (4.29%) GCP
5 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.29%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.29%) Rubrik
6 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.86%) GitHub
6 2 (2.86%) IaaS
6 2 (2.86%) PaaS
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
6 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.43%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.43%) Serverless
7 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Firewall
1 4 (5.71%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (5.71%) SAN
2 3 (4.29%) DHCP
2 3 (4.29%) DNS
2 3 (4.29%) Internet
2 3 (4.29%) VPN
3 2 (2.86%) iSCSI
3 2 (2.86%) Network Security
3 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.43%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.43%) NAS
4 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.43%) SSL
4 1 (1.43%) VLAN
4 1 (1.43%) WAN
4 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.86%) Power BI
2 18 (25.71%) Data Lake
2 18 (25.71%) Neo4j
3 6 (8.57%) Metadata
4 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.43%) Big Data
7 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.43%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.43%) MySQL
7 1 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.43%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.43%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) MLflow
2 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (24.29%) Public Sector
2 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Analyst
2 9 (12.86%) Programmer
2 9 (12.86%) Python Programmer
2 9 (12.86%) Technical Analyst
3 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) Senior
4 6 (8.57%) Administrator
4 6 (8.57%) Architect
4 6 (8.57%) Data Architect
4 6 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Python Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Lead
6 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.71%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.14%) Plotly
2 18 (25.71%) React
3 8 (11.43%) LDAP
4 4 (5.71%) Keycloak
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth2
4 4 (5.71%) OpenID
4 4 (5.71%) SAML
5 3 (4.29%) X-Windows
5 3 (4.29%) YAML
6 1 (1.43%) ADO
6 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.43%) Kafka
6 1 (1.43%) Keras
6 1 (1.43%) PySpark
6 1 (1.43%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.43%) REST
6 1 (1.43%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.43%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.86%) SCADA
5 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.43%) Clustering
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) Replication
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (41.43%) Linux
2 21 (30.00%) Unix
3 16 (22.86%) Windows
4 9 (12.86%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (4.29%) AIX
6 3 (4.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.86%) VMS
7 2 (2.86%) zOS
8 1 (1.43%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) Data Visualisation
1 19 (27.14%) Machine Learning
1 19 (27.14%) Visualisation
2 18 (25.71%) Data Integration
3 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 14 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
5 12 (17.14%) DevOps
5 12 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (15.71%) Agile
7 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (12.86%) OO
8 8 (11.43%) Analytics
8 8 (11.43%) Migration
9 6 (8.57%) Data Engineering
9 6 (8.57%) Line Management
10 5 (7.14%) Data Architecture
10 5 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.57%) Python
2 18 (25.71%) JavaScript
3 10 (14.29%) Perl
4 6 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.71%) SQL
6 2 (2.86%) JCL
6 2 (2.86%) REXX
7 1 (1.43%) Bash
7 1 (1.43%) Bicep
7 1 (1.43%) C#
7 1 (1.43%) Java
7 1 (1.43%) R
7 1 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (32.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) RHCSA
4 2 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.43%) CISM
5 1 (1.43%) CISSP
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.71%) SLA
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.43%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 10 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.00%) Docker
3 5 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.86%) NFS
5 2 (2.86%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (1.43%) KVM
6 1 (1.43%) Microcode
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (17.14%) Ansible
2 10 (14.29%) Terraform
3 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (11.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.71%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.86%) Avamar
5 2 (2.86%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.43%) Grafana
6 1 (1.43%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.43%) Nagios
6 1 (1.43%) Netcool
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Databricks
2 12 (17.14%) VMware
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.57%) IBM
4 6 (8.57%) Oracle
5 4 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.86%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.86%) Brocade
6 2 (2.86%) Cisco
6 2 (2.86%) Dell
6 2 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (1.43%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.43%) Foundry
7 1 (1.43%) Gemalto
7 1 (1.43%) Isilon
7 1 (1.43%) Qualys
7 1 (1.43%) Serena
7 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.43%) Splunk