Storage Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Storage Architect
UK > England

The median Storage Architect daily rate in England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 491 535
Rank change year-on-year -52 +44 +182
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Architect 3 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.032% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.034% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile £583 £510 £540
25th Percentile £631 £531 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £584 £575
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +1.57% +0.44%
75th Percentile £738 £627 £638
90th Percentile - £634 £660
UK median daily rate £638 £583 £575
% change year-on-year +9.35% +1.39% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 28,914 26,211 34,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.89% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,459 16,281 23,302
10th Percentile £297 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,761 819 1,425
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.87 £14.72
25th Percentile £18.26 £21.23 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.58% +37.00%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +40.82%

Storage Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Storage Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Storage Architect job vacancy trend in England

Storage Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Storage Architect job vacancies in England

Storage Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Architect in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Storage Architect in England

Storage Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Storage Architect job vacancies 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 30 December 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 -18 2 £725 +33.39% 4
South West - 1 £550 -
Storage Architect
UK

Storage Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Storage Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Storage Architect in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) BCP
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) FinOps
1 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) MODAF
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation

Storage Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) BCP
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) MODAF
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware