Storage Engineer Jobs

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2024.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 741 680 983
Rank change year-on-year -61 +303 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 33 43 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.083% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.087% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 76
10th Percentile £38,481 £42,250 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £122,500 £81,875 £61,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £85,000 £73,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,648 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.31% +11.76% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 63,010 49,691 114,826
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 95.47% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 30,651 36,208 73,009
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £44,956 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Storage Engineer.

Salary trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 16 December 2024.

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 16 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 33 £65,000 +18.18% 17
London +10 24 £112,500 +40.63% 12
UK excluding London -68 9 £47,648 +0.31% 5
Work from Home +21 7 £39,440 -50.70% 11
North of England -26 7 £41,738 -7.25% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £39,440 -
North West -57 3 £53,750 - 3
South West -1 1 £52,500 +10.53% 1
East Midlands -19 1 £60,000 -
Midlands -41 1 £60,000 +26.32%

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2024, Storage Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Storage Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (69.70%) Linux
2 18 (54.55%) DevOps
3 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
4 11 (33.33%) Windows
4 11 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 11 (33.33%) VMware
5 10 (30.30%) Data Centre
6 9 (27.27%) Finance
6 9 (27.27%) NAS
6 9 (27.27%) Azure
7 8 (24.24%) Bash
7 8 (24.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (24.24%) Dell
7 8 (24.24%) Ansible
8 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (21.21%) Public Cloud
8 7 (21.21%) Presales
8 7 (21.21%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (21.21%) Tech Ops
8 7 (21.21%) NFS
8 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
8 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
9 6 (18.18%) EMC
9 6 (18.18%) Python
9 6 (18.18%) NetApp
9 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (18.18%) Fintech
9 6 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite

Storage Engineer 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:

Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.03%) Cohesity
4 1 (3.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) NAS
2 4 (12.12%) SAN
3 2 (6.06%) Firewall
3 2 (6.06%) LAN
3 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
General
1 16 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Data Centre
2 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (21.21%) Public Cloud
3 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 23 (69.70%) Linux
2 11 (33.33%) Windows
3 8 (24.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (12.12%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) DevOps
2 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (21.21%) Presales
2 7 (21.21%) Tech Ops
3 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (18.18%) Fintech
3 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 4 (12.12%) Coaching
4 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
5 3 (9.09%) Business Case
5 3 (9.09%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (9.09%) Financial Modelling
6 2 (6.06%) Agile
6 2 (6.06%) Change Control
6 2 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.06%) Open Source
6 2 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Bash
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) NFS
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) Docker
3 3 (9.09%) vSphere
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.03%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (3.03%) Firmware
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.06%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.03%) SCCM
5 1 (3.03%) SCOM
5 1 (3.03%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 11 (33.33%) VMware
2 8 (24.24%) Dell
3 6 (18.18%) EMC
3 6 (18.18%) NetApp
4 5 (15.15%) Isilon
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco
5 2 (6.06%) Intel
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) Pure Storage
5 2 (6.06%) SAP
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Veeam