Storage Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Storage Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Storage Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, 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 302 335 466
Rank change year-on-year +33 +131 +157
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Architect 2 10 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.065% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.070% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 3
10th Percentile - - £479
25th Percentile £538 £560 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +16.16% -23.85%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £510
90th Percentile - £646 £519
UK median daily rate £544 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -5.48% -1.29% -10.38%
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 median hourly rate - - £78.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Storage Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Storage Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Storage Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Storage Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Storage Architect.

Storage Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Storage Architect Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Storage Architect in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Gluster
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) IBM XIV
1 1 (50.00%) GlusterFS
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) EMC VNX
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) BCP

Storage Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) EMC VNX
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) BCP
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Gluster
1 1 (50.00%) GlusterFS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat