Pure Storage Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Pure Storage
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Pure Storage products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pure Storage over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Pure Storage.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pure Storage 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £450
75th Percentile - - £463
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 - £400

All Vendors
Cheshire

Pure Storage falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 338 255 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 48.08% 60.43% 54.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 162 191
10th Percentile £313 £317 £275
25th Percentile £380 £393 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -4.76% +6.63%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £560
90th Percentile £662 £645 £620
North West median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 19
10th Percentile £15.55 £19.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £15.27
Median hourly rate £23.50 £50.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.00% +182.17% +1.58%
75th Percentile £33.63 £86.00 £20.69
90th Percentile £82.90 - £29.33
North West median hourly rate £25.38 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -21.91% +102.37% -45.19%

Pure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pure Storage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Pure Storage job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Pure Storage
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pure Storage within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Knutsford - 1 £375 -
Pure Storage
North West

Pure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) OCP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware