Storage Architect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Storage Architect
England > North of England

The median Storage Architect daily rate in the North of England is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 157 179
Rank change year-on-year -80 +22 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Architect 1 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.017% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.13% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £583 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% +7.96% -
England median daily rate £725 £579 £575
% change year-on-year +25.22% +0.70% -1.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 5,293 3,053 4,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 93.42% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,345 2,000 2,887
10th Percentile £256 £230 £256
25th Percentile £380 £363 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £557 £575
90th Percentile £646 £650 £670
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 151 396
10th Percentile £17.01 £13.00 £11.04
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.54 £12.75
Median hourly rate £45.46 £27.13 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% +30.60% -30.77%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £78.75 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

Storage Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of 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 the North of England.

Storage Architect job vacancy trend in the North of England

Storage Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Storage Architect
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 Storage Architect within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
Yorkshire - 1 £540 - 1
Storage Architect
England

Storage Architect Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 22 March 2026, 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 North of England region featuring Storage Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Storage Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage