Storage Engineer Job Trends

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £77,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
16 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 687 683
Rank change year-on-year +51 -4 +330
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 34 64 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.094% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.100% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 30 47 46
10th Percentile £46,241 - £42,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £51,250 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.10% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £78,438
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +29.41%

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 47,393 64,241 50,771
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 94.75% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 29,512 36,137 39,329
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,468 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.93% -3.81% -

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 16 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +68 34 £77,750 +48.10% 7
London +53 24 £87,500 -18.60% 3
UK excluding London +63 8 £47,500 -9.52% 7
South East +35 4 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Work from Home +81 3 - - 1
East of England +18 2 £46,160 -12.08%
Midlands +60 1 £75,000 +25.00% 1
North of England +31 1 £75,000 +42.86%
Yorkshire +11 1 £75,000 +90.16%
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, 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 21 (61.76%) Python
1 21 (61.76%) Storage Management
2 20 (58.82%) Dell
3 19 (55.88%) Ansible
4 15 (44.12%) Fibre Channel
5 13 (38.24%) GitHub
5 13 (38.24%) SAN
6 12 (35.29%) Broadcom
6 12 (35.29%) IBM
6 12 (35.29%) JCL
6 12 (35.29%) REXX
6 12 (35.29%) Time Sharing Option
6 12 (35.29%) YAML
6 12 (35.29%) zOS
7 10 (29.41%) Git
7 10 (29.41%) NAS
7 10 (29.41%) Pure Storage
8 9 (26.47%) Cost Optimisation
8 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
9 8 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (23.53%) Data Protection
9 8 (23.53%) Linux
9 8 (23.53%) NetApp
9 8 (23.53%) NFS
9 8 (23.53%) Red Hat
10 7 (20.59%) Avamar
10 7 (20.59%) DevOps
10 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
10 7 (20.59%) PowerShell

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 13 (38.24%) GitHub
2 7 (20.59%) Rubrik
3 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.88%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 15 (44.12%) Fibre Channel
2 13 (38.24%) SAN
3 10 (29.41%) NAS
4 4 (11.76%) Firewall
4 4 (11.76%) LAN
4 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.76%) WAN
5 3 (8.82%) DHCP
5 3 (8.82%) DNS
5 3 (8.82%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.94%) iSCSI
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Git
2 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (58.82%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Financial Institution
3 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Data Centre
2 11 (32.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.94%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) zOS
2 8 (23.53%) Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Windows
4 1 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.94%) VMS
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Storage Management
2 9 (26.47%) Cost Optimisation
2 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (23.53%) Data Protection
4 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Agile
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.76%) Data Management
6 4 (11.76%) ITIL
6 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.82%) High Availability
7 3 (8.82%) Incident Response
7 3 (8.82%) Low Latency
7 3 (8.82%) Project Management
7 3 (8.82%) Project Planning
7 3 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) JCL
2 12 (35.29%) REXX
3 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
4 3 (8.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) LPIC
2 3 (8.82%) MCSE
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.82%) RHCE
3 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Time Sharing Option
2 8 (23.53%) NFS
3 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) vSphere
4 3 (8.82%) Docker
4 3 (8.82%) GPFS
4 3 (8.82%) Lustre
5 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.94%) Firmware
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (55.88%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Avamar
2 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Terraform
4 2 (5.88%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.94%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Nagios
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) SCOM
5 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (58.82%) Dell
2 12 (35.29%) Broadcom
2 12 (35.29%) IBM
3 10 (29.41%) Pure Storage
4 8 (23.53%) NetApp
4 8 (23.53%) Red Hat
5 6 (17.65%) Cisco
5 6 (17.65%) Veeam
6 5 (14.71%) Commvault
6 5 (14.71%) VMware
7 3 (8.82%) EMC
7 3 (8.82%) Oracle
8 2 (5.88%) SAP
9 1 (2.94%) Brocade
9 1 (2.94%) Dell Compellent
9 1 (2.94%) Hitachi
9 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.94%) Zerto
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