Pure Storage Contract Job Trends

Pure Storage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 544 541
Rank change year-on-year -115 -3 +76
Contract jobs citing Pure Storage 7 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.031% 0.051% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £516 £495 -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% +25.00% +7.38%
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile £738 £507 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +10.90% +25.00% -42.86%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,593 15,722 16,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.54% 47.64% 44.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,661 9,666 9,975
10th Percentile £310 £278 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,367 815 619
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.79 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.26 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -22.63% -24.42%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.65 £64.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.57% -29.00% -29.41%

Pure Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Pure Storage job vacancy trend in the UK

Pure Storage
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Pure Storage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pure Storage over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pure Storage in the UK

Pure Storage
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 October 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
England -125 6 £590 +17.95% 14
UK excluding London -102 5 £555 +10.90% 4
Yorkshire -32 3 £519 - 1
North of England -68 3 £519 - 1
Work from Home -74 1 £519 +3.80% 5
London -86 1 £625 +25.00% 9
Midlands - 1 £625 -
South West - 1 £850 -
West Midlands - 1 £625 -

Pure Storage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) NAS
3 2 (28.57%) VSAN
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Storage Architect
3 3 (42.86%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (57.14%) Replication
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (28.57%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (28.57%) EMC VNX
5 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Key Management
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Network Design
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) NCDA
2 2 (28.57%) NCIE
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (71.43%) vSphere
2 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (28.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) NFS
3 2 (28.57%) SRDF
3 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Argo
3 2 (28.57%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (28.57%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) SnapMirror
3 2 (28.57%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) NetApp
3 4 (57.14%) EMC
4 3 (42.86%) Dell
4 3 (42.86%) Veeam
5 2 (28.57%) 3PAR
5 2 (28.57%) Brocade
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco
5 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
5 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (14.29%) Microsoft