Storage Engineer Contracts

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer daily rate in the UK is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 609 736
Rank change year-on-year +127 +127 -78
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 105 97 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 58 71
10th Percentile £419 £339 £300
25th Percentile £475 £420 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% +15.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £566
90th Percentile £608 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +9.00% +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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
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 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 14 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 14 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 +135 94 £545 +3.81% 22
UK excluding London +117 93 £545 +9.00% 19
North of England +48 29 £520 +7.11% 3
South East +42 29 £603 +14.76% 5
Work from Home +96 28 £540 +2.86% 8
Yorkshire +34 19 £533 +9.79%
South West +21 12 £500 +81.82% 4
East of England +19 9 £550 +41.94% 3
North West - 8 £390 - 3
London +45 7 £515 -5.50% 3
Scotland +27 7 £693 +34.82%
Midlands +26 5 £575 +70.37% 3
East Midlands +19 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 14 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 55 (52.38%) VMware
2 51 (48.57%) SAN
3 49 (46.67%) Windows
3 49 (46.67%) Linux
4 44 (41.90%) Security Cleared
5 38 (36.19%) EMC
6 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 34 (32.38%) DV Cleared
8 33 (31.43%) Dell
9 30 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (27.62%) Cisco
11 27 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
11 27 (25.71%) NetBackup
12 23 (21.90%) SC Cleared
13 21 (20.00%) ITIL
14 20 (19.05%) Data Centre
15 19 (18.10%) NetApp
16 18 (17.14%) Azure
16 18 (17.14%) PowerShell
16 18 (17.14%) Brocade
16 18 (17.14%) Windows Server
16 18 (17.14%) VMware ESXi
17 17 (16.19%) Performance Tuning
17 17 (16.19%) Storage Management
18 16 (15.24%) vCenter Server
18 16 (15.24%) Data Protection
18 16 (15.24%) NAS
18 16 (15.24%) Veritas
18 16 (15.24%) Migration
19 15 (14.29%) 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 4 (3.81%) SAS
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.14%) Azure
2 10 (9.52%) OCI
3 9 (8.57%) AWS
4 4 (3.81%) IaaS
4 4 (3.81%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.86%) GCP
6 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.90%) Cohesity
6 2 (1.90%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon CloudSearch
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 51 (48.57%) SAN
2 16 (15.24%) NAS
3 12 (11.43%) DHCP
3 12 (11.43%) DNS
4 10 (9.52%) Firewall
5 9 (8.57%) Fibre Channel
6 8 (7.62%) VLAN
7 5 (4.76%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.95%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) DB2
2 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
General
1 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.38%) Finance
4 12 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Banking
5 5 (4.76%) Legal
6 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Front Office
8 1 (0.95%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) Flash
2 4 (3.81%) POSIX
3 2 (1.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 13 (12.38%) Replication
3 4 (3.81%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (3.81%) HP Storage
3 4 (3.81%) NVMe
4 3 (2.86%) EMC VNX
5 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.95%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.95%) IBM XIV
6 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (46.67%) Linux
1 49 (46.67%) Windows
2 18 (17.14%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.52%) AIX
3 10 (9.52%) Windows 10
3 10 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
3 10 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (9.52%) Windows XP
4 8 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.62%) Solaris
5 7 (6.67%) Unix
6 6 (5.71%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (20.00%) ITIL
3 17 (16.19%) Performance Tuning
3 17 (16.19%) Storage Management
4 16 (15.24%) Data Protection
4 16 (15.24%) Migration
5 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (11.43%) Service Delivery
7 11 (10.48%) Change Management
7 11 (10.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (9.52%) Break/Fix
8 10 (9.52%) Converged Infrastructure
8 10 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
8 10 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
8 10 (9.52%) Project Management
8 10 (9.52%) Server Management
9 9 (8.57%) Performance Analysis
10 8 (7.62%) Customer Requirements
10 8 (7.62%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (6.67%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.57%) Python
3 7 (6.67%) SQL
4 6 (5.71%) Perl
5 4 (3.81%) Java
6 3 (2.86%) Bash
7 1 (0.95%) JCL
Qualifications
1 44 (41.90%) Security Cleared
2 34 (32.38%) DV Cleared
3 23 (21.90%) SC Cleared
4 14 (13.33%) Degree
5 10 (9.52%) CCNA
5 10 (9.52%) CCNP
5 10 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 27 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (17.14%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (12.38%) Active Directory
4 11 (10.48%) Hyper-V
5 8 (7.62%) Docker
6 7 (6.67%) Firmware
7 4 (3.81%) GPFS
7 4 (3.81%) NFS
8 3 (2.86%) SRDF
8 3 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (25.71%) NetBackup
2 16 (15.24%) vCenter Server
3 15 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (13.33%) Ansible
5 12 (11.43%) SCCM
6 10 (9.52%) SCOM
6 10 (9.52%) WSUS
7 9 (8.57%) Puppet
8 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
9 7 (6.67%) Avamar
10 4 (3.81%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 3 (2.86%) EMC TimeFinder
11 3 (2.86%) HP Data Protector
12 2 (1.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 55 (52.38%) VMware
2 38 (36.19%) EMC
3 33 (31.43%) Dell
4 29 (27.62%) Cisco
5 19 (18.10%) NetApp
6 18 (17.14%) Brocade
7 16 (15.24%) Veritas
8 15 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 14 (13.33%) HP
10 13 (12.38%) Oracle
10 13 (12.38%) Symantec
11 12 (11.43%) Veeam
12 10 (9.52%) 3PAR
12 10 (9.52%) Extreme Networks
12 10 (9.52%) IBM
12 10 (9.52%) Juniper
12 10 (9.52%) Palo Alto
13 5 (4.76%) Google
14 4 (3.81%) Isilon
14 4 (3.81%) Red Hat