Hybrid/Remote Storage Management Contract Job Trends

Storage Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Storage Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 266 316
Rank change year-on-year -19 +50 +137
Contract jobs citing Storage Management 26 43 57
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.43% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 34
10th Percentile £368 £349 £401
25th Percentile £463 £368 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £451 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -5.13% -17.39%
75th Percentile £615 £593 £524
90th Percentile £655 £623 £713
UK median daily rate £555 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +23.33% -5.26% -16.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - £54.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 - £57.99
75th Percentile £61.50 - £61.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - £57.99
% change year-on-year - - +7.39%

All Process & 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 9,188 9,889 14,319
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.36% 89.49% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,054 6,196 9,755
10th Percentile £331 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 191 361
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.25 £26.24
Median hourly rate £45.46 £36.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.28% -31.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Storage Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Storage Management
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Storage Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Storage Management over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

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

Storage Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Storage Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Storage Management

Storage Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) CICS
1 1 (3.85%) MQSeries
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) GitHub
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (11.54%) Apigee
5 3 (11.54%) AWS
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Functions
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) MySQL
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) Big Data
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
3 1 (3.85%) Metadata
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Pylint
2 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 4 (15.38%) Administrator
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Cloud Developer
3 3 (11.54%) GCP Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Programmer
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Storage Manager
5 1 (3.85%) DBA
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Operations Manager
5 1 (3.85%) SAP EWM Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Storage Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Developer
5 1 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) Node.js
2 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 4 (15.38%) Express.js
2 4 (15.38%) ISPF
2 4 (15.38%) JSON
2 4 (15.38%) SignalR
2 4 (15.38%) WebSockets
3 1 (3.85%) CSS
3 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.85%) Flake8
3 1 (3.85%) Flask
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) mypy
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.85%) OpenID
3 1 (3.85%) Pandas
3 1 (3.85%) PySpark
3 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (3.85%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
5 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) Observability
5 4 (15.38%) RBAC
5 4 (15.38%) Validation
6 3 (11.54%) API Management
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) ETL
6 3 (11.54%) High Availability
6 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (11.54%) Release Management
7 2 (7.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.54%) CLIST
4 3 (11.54%) COBOL
4 3 (11.54%) JCL
4 3 (11.54%) REXX
4 3 (11.54%) VBA
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.54%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) OCP
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) RACF
1 4 (15.38%) Time Sharing Option
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.54%) ACF2
2 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (11.54%) VMware NSX
2 3 (11.54%) vSphere
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (3.85%) SRDF
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 3 (11.54%) CA Endevor
3 3 (11.54%) Tivoli
3 3 (11.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) NetApp
3 1 (3.85%) Nintex
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) SAP