Storage Engineer Contracts

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in the UK is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 620 757
Rank change year-on-year +131 +137 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 102 98 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 60 74
10th Percentile £413 £346 £296
25th Percentile £475 £420 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +15.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £570
90th Percentile £608 £650 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +8.00% +17.65% +4.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Storage Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London +115 90 £540 +8.00% 18
England +125 89 £540 +2.86% 22
North of England +49 29 £520 +7.11% 1
Work from Home +109 28 £540 +2.86% 10
South East +41 27 £603 +14.76% 3
Yorkshire +34 19 £533 +9.79%
South West +34 12 £500 +81.82% 4
Scotland +31 9 £618 +20.14%
North West - 8 £390 - 1
London +61 7 £515 -5.50% 4
East of England +12 6 £550 +41.94% 4
Midlands +30 5 £575 +70.37% 5
East Midlands +24 5 £575 +70.37% 3
North East - 2 £400 -
Wales - 2 - - 1

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 job ads featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (50.00%) SAN
1 51 (50.00%) VMware
2 46 (45.10%) Windows
2 46 (45.10%) Linux
3 40 (39.22%) Security Cleared
4 38 (37.25%) EMC
5 35 (34.31%) Social Skills
6 33 (32.35%) Dell
7 30 (29.41%) DV Cleared
8 29 (28.43%) Cisco
8 29 (28.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
9 27 (26.47%) NetBackup
10 22 (21.57%) SC Cleared
11 21 (20.59%) ITIL
12 20 (19.61%) Data Centre
13 18 (17.65%) Windows Server
13 18 (17.65%) Azure
13 18 (17.65%) PowerShell
13 18 (17.65%) Brocade
14 17 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
14 17 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (16.67%) Storage Management
15 16 (15.69%) vCenter Server
15 16 (15.69%) Data Protection
15 16 (15.69%) NAS
15 16 (15.69%) NetApp
15 16 (15.69%) Veritas
15 16 (15.69%) Migration
16 15 (14.71%) Microsoft

Storage Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.90%) SAS
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.65%) Azure
2 10 (9.80%) OCI
3 9 (8.82%) AWS
4 4 (3.92%) IaaS
4 4 (3.92%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.94%) GCP
6 2 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.96%) Cohesity
6 2 (1.96%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.98%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (50.00%) SAN
2 16 (15.69%) NAS
3 11 (10.78%) DHCP
3 11 (10.78%) DNS
4 10 (9.80%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (9.80%) Firewall
5 8 (7.84%) VLAN
6 6 (5.88%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) DB2
2 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
General
1 35 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Finance
4 12 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.88%) Banking
6 5 (4.90%) Legal
6 5 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Front Office
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) Flash
2 5 (4.90%) POSIX
3 2 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.61%) Data Centre
2 13 (12.75%) Replication
3 4 (3.92%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (3.92%) HP Storage
3 4 (3.92%) NVMe
4 3 (2.94%) EMC VNX
5 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.98%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.98%) IBM XIV
6 1 (0.98%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (45.10%) Linux
1 46 (45.10%) Windows
2 18 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.80%) AIX
3 10 (9.80%) Windows 10
3 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2016
3 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (9.80%) Windows XP
4 9 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.84%) Solaris
5 8 (7.84%) Unix
6 6 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.98%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (20.59%) ITIL
3 17 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 17 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 16 (15.69%) Data Protection
4 16 (15.69%) Migration
5 15 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (11.76%) Service Delivery
7 11 (10.78%) Change Management
7 11 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (9.80%) Break/Fix
8 10 (9.80%) Converged Infrastructure
8 10 (9.80%) Performance Monitoring
8 10 (9.80%) Proactive Monitoring
8 10 (9.80%) Project Management
8 10 (9.80%) Server Management
9 9 (8.82%) Customer Requirements
9 9 (8.82%) Performance Analysis
10 8 (7.84%) DevOps
10 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.80%) Python
3 8 (7.84%) SQL
4 6 (5.88%) Perl
5 5 (4.90%) Java
6 3 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (0.98%) JCL
Qualifications
1 40 (39.22%) Security Cleared
2 30 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 22 (21.57%) SC Cleared
4 14 (13.73%) Degree
5 10 (9.80%) CCNA
5 10 (9.80%) CCNP
5 10 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 27 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (10.78%) Hyper-V
5 8 (7.84%) Docker
6 7 (6.86%) Firmware
7 5 (4.90%) NFS
8 4 (3.92%) GPFS
9 3 (2.94%) SRDF
9 3 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (26.47%) NetBackup
2 16 (15.69%) vCenter Server
3 15 (14.71%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (13.73%) Ansible
5 11 (10.78%) SCCM
6 10 (9.80%) SCOM
6 10 (9.80%) WSUS
7 9 (8.82%) Puppet
8 8 (7.84%) Avamar
8 8 (7.84%) Kubernetes
9 4 (3.92%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (2.94%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (2.94%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (1.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 51 (50.00%) VMware
2 38 (37.25%) EMC
3 33 (32.35%) Dell
4 29 (28.43%) Cisco
5 18 (17.65%) Brocade
6 16 (15.69%) NetApp
6 16 (15.69%) Veritas
7 15 (14.71%) Microsoft
8 14 (13.73%) HP
9 13 (12.75%) Oracle
9 13 (12.75%) Symantec
10 12 (11.76%) Veeam
11 10 (9.80%) 3PAR
11 10 (9.80%) Extreme Networks
11 10 (9.80%) IBM
11 10 (9.80%) Juniper
11 10 (9.80%) Palo Alto
12 5 (4.90%) Google
13 4 (3.92%) Isilon
13 4 (3.92%) Red Hat