Pure Storage Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Pure Storage
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 9 September 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
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 - 124
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pure Storage 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.062% - 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £568 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £400
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £540 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +14.29%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,104 1,223 1,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 43.54% 46.91% 45.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 803 795
10th Percentile £313 £235 £255
25th Percentile £403 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £612
90th Percentile £675 £648 £695
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 52 32
10th Percentile £13.39 £13.94 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.87 £14.27
Median hourly rate £19.41 £25.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +47.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £33.92 £31.72 £38.79
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £54.69
England median hourly rate £30.27 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.36% -28.14% -17.65%

Pure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Pure Storage job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Pure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Pure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Pure Storage

Pure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
West Midlands - 3 £600 - 1
Pure Storage
England

Pure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Brocade
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware