Enterprise Storage Contracts

Enterprise Storage
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 666 774
Rank change year-on-year +98 +108 -101
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Storage 14 37 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.064% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 56
10th Percentile £383 £220 £238
25th Percentile £400 £230 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £378 £391
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -3.39% +10.21%
75th Percentile £500 £585 £574
90th Percentile £567 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £378 £320
% change year-on-year +19.05% +18.13% -6.57%

All Generic Skills
UK

Enterprise Storage is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Enterprise Storage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Storage.

Daily rate trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Storage over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Enterprise Storage.

Hourly rate trend for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Storage within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +83 12 £444 -6.58% 8
UK excluding London +47 10 £450 +19.05% 5
South East +24 5 £400 - 2
South West - 3 £500 -
Work from Home +109 2 - - 2
London +81 2 £359 -26.41% 3
East of England - 2 - - 2
Midlands +22 1 £400 -18.78%
West Midlands +14 1 £400 -18.78%

Enterprise Storage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) SAN
2 3 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
General
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Backup Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Storage Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Project Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Storage Architect
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (21.43%) ITIL
1 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
1 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
1 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (21.43%) Release Management
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 2 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Ticket Management
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
3 1 (7.14%) OpenUP
3 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
1 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 3 (21.43%) Puppet
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) NetApp
3 5 (35.71%) 3PAR
3 5 (35.71%) HP
3 5 (35.71%) Nimble Storage
3 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) Brocade
5 3 (21.43%) Dell
5 3 (21.43%) Veritas
6 1 (7.14%) Apple
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco
6 1 (7.14%) EMC
6 1 (7.14%) Unisys