Storage Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the North West

Storage Virtualization
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Storage Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Storage Virtualisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.026% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Storage Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,221 1,916 1,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.57% 88.46% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,273 1,117
10th Percentile £295 £287 £294
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £585
90th Percentile £675 £678 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 132 108
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.54 £16.43
25th Percentile £24.00 £17.30 £29.25
Median hourly rate £46.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.76% -40.84% +28.79%
75th Percentile £71.91 £45.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

Storage Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Storage Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the North West

Storage Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Storage Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Storage Virtualisation

Storage Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Virtualisation within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester - 1 £550 - 1
Storage Virtualisation
England

Storage Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared