Pure Storage Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Pure Storage
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 December 2025, 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
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 - 188
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pure Storage 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% - 0.042%
As % of the Vendors category 0.28% - 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £572 - £370
25th Percentile £585 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £413
75th Percentile £618 - £444
90th Percentile £621 - £455
England median daily rate £513 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Vendors
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,174 1,715 2,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.54% 44.65% 48.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 940 1,451
10th Percentile £257 £274 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £576 £588
90th Percentile £679 £675 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 78 105
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.10 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +49.51%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.43 £55.51
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

Pure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Pure Storage job vacancy trend in the North of England

Pure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Pure Storage

Pure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire - 6 £613 - 1
Pure Storage
England

Pure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) FCoE
1 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Platform Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) MVS
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) OCP
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) NFS
2 1 (16.67%) SRDF
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Argo
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk