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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 763 658 736
Rank change year-on-year -105 +78 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 23 34 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.068% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.076% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 56
10th Percentile £42,900 £31,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +42.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £88,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £65,000 - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -4.55%

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 101,050 44,873 78,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.93% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 69,068 26,506 52,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -4.00% -6.54%

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 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 9 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 20 August 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 -110 20 £60,000 -20.00% 15
UK excluding London -93 16 £60,000 +33.33% 10
South East -30 8 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Work from Home -26 6 £65,000 +100.00% 3
London -62 5 £65,000 -25.71% 5
East of England - 4 £42,250 - 6
North West -13 3 - -
North of England -35 3 - -
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 19 (82.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) NetApp
3 7 (30.43%) SAN
3 7 (30.43%) VMware
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 5 (21.74%) Nutanix
4 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
4 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (17.39%) HTML
5 4 (17.39%) NAS
5 4 (17.39%) NetBackup
5 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 4 (17.39%) Veeam
6 3 (13.04%) Ansible
6 3 (13.04%) Dell
6 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
6 3 (13.04%) vSphere
7 2 (8.70%) CentOS
7 2 (8.70%) Cohesity
7 2 (8.70%) Commvault
7 2 (8.70%) Data Management
7 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
7 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (8.70%) Firmware
7 2 (8.70%) ITIL
7 2 (8.70%) ITSM
7 2 (8.70%) Linux
7 2 (8.70%) Operational Stability

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Nutanix
2 2 (8.70%) Cohesity
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) SAN
2 4 (17.39%) NAS
3 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (21.74%) Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) CentOS
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Rocky
1 2 (8.70%) VMS
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (17.39%) Project Management
3 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (8.70%) Data Management
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection
4 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 2 (8.70%) ITSM
4 2 (8.70%) Operational Stability
4 2 (8.70%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (8.70%) Release Management
4 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (8.70%) Service Management
5 1 (4.35%) Agile
5 1 (4.35%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.35%) High Availability
5 1 (4.35%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (4.35%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Perl
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) MCSE
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) vSphere
3 2 (8.70%) Firmware
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) NetBackup
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) NetApp
2 7 (30.43%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 4 (17.39%) Veeam
5 3 (13.04%) Dell
6 2 (8.70%) Commvault
7 1 (4.35%) Google
7 1 (4.35%) Zerto