Storage Architect Contracts in England

Storage Architect
UK > England

The median Storage Architect daily rate in England is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 527 642
Rank change year-on-year +46 +115 +127
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Architect 4 15 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.040% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.043% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £518 £540 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £665
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -13.53% +2.31%
75th Percentile £587 £646 £688
90th Percentile £602 £729 £770
UK median daily rate £544 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -5.48% -1.29% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £78.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Storage Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Architect in England

Storage Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Storage Architect in England

Storage Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Storage Architect in England

Storage Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +35 3 £544 -5.48% 3
North of England +16 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Storage Architect
UK

Storage Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Storage Architect 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 across the England region featuring Storage Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) BCP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) EMC VNX
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) VxRail
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Unix

Storage Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) EMC VNX
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (25.00%) IBM XIV
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Gluster
1 1 (25.00%) GlusterFS
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) EMC
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) VMware