Storage Engineer Contracts

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 593 755
Rank change year-on-year +113 +162 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 104 104 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 60 75
10th Percentile £425 £350 £382
25th Percentile £484 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +15.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £598 £577 £566
90th Percentile £608 £650 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +2.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +107 98 £550 +4.76% 22
UK excluding London +85 96 £550 +10.00% 14
South East +39 31 £600 +14.33% 3
North of England +39 28 £525 +8.25% 3
Work from Home +92 23 £513 -1.44% 7
Yorkshire +27 19 £533 +9.79%
East of England +17 16 £550 +41.94% 4
South West - 12 £500 - 4
North West - 7 £300 - 3
London +35 5 £515 -5.50% 7
Midlands +17 5 £575 +70.37%
East Midlands +8 5 £575 +70.37%
Scotland +33 2 - -
North East - 2 £400 -
Wales - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 59 (56.73%) VMware
2 53 (50.96%) Windows
2 53 (50.96%) Security Cleared
3 50 (48.08%) Linux
4 49 (47.12%) SAN
5 40 (38.46%) DV Cleared
6 34 (32.69%) EMC
7 33 (31.73%) Dell
8 29 (27.88%) Cisco
8 29 (27.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
10 26 (25.00%) NetBackup
11 25 (24.04%) SC Cleared
11 25 (24.04%) VMware Infrastructure
12 21 (20.19%) NetApp
13 20 (19.23%) ITIL
13 20 (19.23%) Data Centre
14 19 (18.27%) VMware ESXi
15 17 (16.35%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (15.38%) vCenter Server
17 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (14.42%) Windows Server
17 15 (14.42%) NAS
17 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
17 15 (14.42%) Data Protection
17 15 (14.42%) Brocade
17 15 (14.42%) EMC NetWorker
17 15 (14.42%) HP
18 14 (13.46%) Migration
18 14 (13.46%) Degree

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (13.46%) Azure
2 10 (9.62%) OCI
3 3 (2.88%) AWS
3 3 (2.88%) GCP
4 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.92%) Rubrik
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudSearch
5 1 (0.96%) Cohesity
5 1 (0.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (47.12%) SAN
2 15 (14.42%) NAS
3 12 (11.54%) DHCP
3 12 (11.54%) DNS
4 10 (9.62%) Firewall
5 8 (7.69%) VLAN
6 5 (4.81%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.96%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
1 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.65%) Finance
5 5 (4.81%) Legal
6 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Front Office
8 1 (0.96%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) Flash
1 2 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 13 (12.50%) Replication
3 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (3.85%) HP Storage
4 3 (2.88%) EMC VNX
4 3 (2.88%) IBM XIV
5 2 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.92%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.96%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.96%) IBM Storwize
6 1 (0.96%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 53 (50.96%) Windows
2 50 (48.08%) Linux
3 15 (14.42%) Windows Server
4 11 (10.58%) AIX
4 11 (10.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (9.62%) Windows 10
5 10 (9.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (9.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (9.62%) Windows XP
6 8 (7.69%) Solaris
7 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (1.92%) Unix
9 1 (0.96%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (27.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (19.23%) ITIL
3 17 (16.35%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (14.42%) Data Protection
4 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (13.46%) Migration
6 13 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 12 (11.54%) Service Delivery
8 11 (10.58%) Change Management
8 11 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (9.62%) Break/Fix
9 10 (9.62%) Converged Infrastructure
9 10 (9.62%) Performance Monitoring
9 10 (9.62%) Proactive Monitoring
9 10 (9.62%) Project Management
9 10 (9.62%) Server Management
10 9 (8.65%) Performance Analysis
11 7 (6.73%) CI/CD
11 7 (6.73%) Database Migration
12 6 (5.77%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.88%) Bash
2 3 (2.88%) SQL
3 2 (1.92%) Perl
3 2 (1.92%) Python
4 1 (0.96%) JCL
Qualifications
1 53 (50.96%) Security Cleared
2 40 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 25 (24.04%) SC Cleared
4 14 (13.46%) Degree
5 10 (9.62%) CCNA
5 10 (9.62%) CCNP
5 10 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 25 (24.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (18.27%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 12 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 7 (6.73%) Firmware
6 3 (2.88%) SRDF
6 3 (2.88%) vSphere
7 1 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 16 (15.38%) vCenter Server
3 15 (14.42%) EMC NetWorker
4 12 (11.54%) Ansible
4 12 (11.54%) SCCM
5 10 (9.62%) SCOM
5 10 (9.62%) WSUS
6 9 (8.65%) Puppet
7 6 (5.77%) Avamar
8 4 (3.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (2.88%) EMC TimeFinder
9 3 (2.88%) HP Data Protector
10 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (56.73%) VMware
2 34 (32.69%) EMC
3 33 (31.73%) Dell
4 29 (27.88%) Cisco
5 21 (20.19%) NetApp
6 15 (14.42%) Brocade
6 15 (14.42%) HP
7 13 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 13 (12.50%) Oracle
7 13 (12.50%) Symantec
8 12 (11.54%) Veritas
9 11 (10.58%) Veeam
10 10 (9.62%) 3PAR
10 10 (9.62%) Extreme Networks
10 10 (9.62%) Juniper
10 10 (9.62%) Palo Alto
11 7 (6.73%) IBM
12 4 (3.85%) Isilon
13 3 (2.88%) Dell Compellent
13 3 (2.88%) EqualLogic