Storage Architect Contracts

Storage Architect
UK

The median Storage Architect daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 684 834
Rank change year-on-year +124 +150 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Storage Architect 24 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.023% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.025% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 7
10th Percentile £540 £485 £493
25th Percentile £560 £495 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -10.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £684 -
90th Percentile £688 £756 £657
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £495 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £78.50 -
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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Storage Architect over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 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 12 June 2024. 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 +96 19 £575 -13.53%
Work from Home +123 15 £575 +16.16%
UK excluding London +37 13 £540 +9.09%
North of England - 8 £540 -
Yorkshire - 8 £540 -
London +84 6 £575 -14.18%
South West - 4 £646 -
South East +13 1 £590 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 7 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (25.00%) Time Management
3 6 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (25.00%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Firewall
4 5 (20.83%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Security Management
5 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 4 (16.67%) SQL
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle
5 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 4 (16.67%) SAP
5 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 4 (16.67%) Teamcenter
5 4 (16.67%) Replication
5 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (16.67%) Blog
5 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 4 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Linux
6 3 (12.50%) SAN

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:

Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (8.33%) GCP
1 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (8.33%) InfiniBand
3 2 (8.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Blog
1 4 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 7 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (25.00%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) Time Management
4 5 (20.83%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.67%) Security Management
5 4 (16.67%) Storage Management
6 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
8 1 (4.17%) ITIL
8 1 (4.17%) Mentoring
8 1 (4.17%) Problem Management
8 1 (4.17%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.33%) KVM
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
1 4 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Dell
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) NVIDIA
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) 3PAR
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) NetApp
4 1 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (4.17%) Veritas