Storage Engineer Job Trends

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 673 654 762
Rank change year-on-year -19 +108 +180
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 19 17 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.039% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.043% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 16 15 60
10th Percentile £46,160 £37,258 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £44,125 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -22.13%
75th Percentile £64,563 £122,500 £53,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £59,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 68,062 39,531 79,680
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.64% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 43,433 22,967 61,167
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,869 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -4.76%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Storage Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Storage Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Storage Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Storage Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Storage Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 18 £60,000 +9.09% 12
UK excluding London -8 12 £60,000 +33.33% 7
North of England -42 8 £60,000 +40.20%
Work from Home +35 7 £60,000 +48.16% 4
North West -5 7 £60,000 +18.23%
London +8 5 £120,000 +4.35% 5
East of England - 2 £46,160 - 1
South East -7 1 £47,500 +5.56% 7
Yorkshire -42 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Storage Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 March 2026, Storage Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (52.63%) SAN
2 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 7 (36.84%) Storage Management
3 6 (31.58%) Data Protection
3 6 (31.58%) Dell
3 6 (31.58%) NetApp
3 6 (31.58%) Python
4 5 (26.32%) Ansible
4 5 (26.32%) NAS
4 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) Avamar
5 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (21.05%) Change Management
5 4 (21.05%) Cisco
5 4 (21.05%) EMC
5 4 (21.05%) High Availability
5 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) NetBackup
5 4 (21.05%) Rubrik
5 4 (21.05%) Veeam
6 3 (15.79%) Brocade
6 3 (15.79%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (15.79%) Git
6 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (15.79%) Pure Storage
6 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server

Storage Engineer Skill Set
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 (21.05%) Rubrik
2 2 (10.53%) Cohesity
3 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) SAN
2 5 (26.32%) NAS
3 3 (15.79%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
4 1 (5.26%) Clustering
4 1 (5.26%) EMC VNX
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (36.84%) Storage Management
3 6 (31.58%) Data Protection
4 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 4 (21.05%) High Availability
4 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (15.79%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
6 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.26%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.53%) vSphere
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Firmware
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) KVM
3 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Avamar
2 4 (21.05%) NetBackup
3 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Graylog
4 1 (5.26%) Nagios
4 1 (5.26%) PowerCLI
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM
4 1 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Dell
1 6 (31.58%) NetApp
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) EMC
2 4 (21.05%) Veeam
3 3 (15.79%) Brocade
3 3 (15.79%) Pure Storage
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Commvault
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) Isilon
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) Snow
4 2 (10.53%) Veritas
4 2 (10.53%) Zerto
5 1 (5.26%) Dell Compellent
5 1 (5.26%) Hitachi
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle