Pure Storage Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pure Storage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 October 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
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Contract jobs citing Pure Storage 11 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.068% - 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £497 - £378
25th Percentile £502 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.84%
75th Percentile £528 - £581
90th Percentile £538 - £653
UK median daily rate £510 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -18.18%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,817 7,600 9,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.26% 44.68% 46.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,872 4,372 6,362
10th Percentile £220 £220 £208
25th Percentile £363 £383 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £655 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 461 526
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.12 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -29.41% +102.38%
75th Percentile £34.99 £63.75 £60.94
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

Pure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Pure Storage job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Pure Storage
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pure Storage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pure Storage

Pure Storage
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
South East - 9 £513 - 6
North of England - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 - - 2
Pure Storage
UK

Pure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (9.09%) CICS
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 5 (45.45%) IaaS
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Storage
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) NAS
2 5 (45.45%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) FCoE
3 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) Multicast
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Integration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) MVS
2 1 (9.09%) Solaris
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Load Balancing
3 5 (45.45%) RBAC
4 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (36.36%) Storage Management
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Bash
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
1 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware NSX
1 6 (54.55%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) KVM
3 1 (9.09%) NFS
3 1 (9.09%) SRDF
3 1 (9.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (9.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Ansible
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Argo
2 6 (54.55%) vCenter Server
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) EMC
2 5 (45.45%) NetApp
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) F5
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk