Storage Architect Contracts

Storage Architect
UK

The median Storage Architect daily rate in the UK is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 563 702
Rank change year-on-year +47 +139 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Architect 4 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.044% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.047% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 6
10th Percentile £515 £540 £485
25th Percentile £518 £560 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -1.29% -10.38%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £684
90th Percentile £602 £688 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate - £540 £495
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £78.50
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Storage Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Storage Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Architect in the UK

Storage Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Storage Architect.

Daily rate trend for Storage Architect in the UK

Storage Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Storage Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Storage Architect in the UK

Storage Architect
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +46 4 £544 -5.48% 3
London +35 3 £544 -5.48% 3
Work from Home +33 2 £575 - 1
UK excluding London +55 1 - - 1
North of England +16 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

Storage Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Storage Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Storage Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) BCP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) EMC VNX
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) VxRail
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Unix

Storage Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) EMC VNX
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (25.00%) IBM XIV
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Gluster
1 1 (25.00%) GlusterFS
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) EMC
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) VMware