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 23 March 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 626 777
Rank change year-on-year -56 +151 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 18 16 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.038% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.042% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 58
10th Percentile £46,160 £36,643 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £42,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% +12.63% -22.13%
75th Percentile - £115,625 £53,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £60,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -5.26%

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 70,590 38,369 82,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 90.31% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 44,954 23,205 62,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,000 £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 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -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 23 March 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 23 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 -33 17 £60,000 +12.15% 7
UK excluding London -38 12 £60,000 +33.33% 5
North of England -39 9 £60,000 +48.16% 1
North West -8 8 £60,000 +29.03% 1
Work from Home +17 7 £60,000 +48.16% 3
London +3 4 £120,000 +4.35% 2
East of England - 2 £46,160 - 1
Yorkshire -47 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 (55.56%) SAN
2 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (38.89%) Storage Management
4 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (33.33%) Python
5 5 (27.78%) Ansible
5 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
5 5 (27.78%) Dell
5 5 (27.78%) NAS
5 5 (27.78%) NetApp
6 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (22.22%) Change Management
6 4 (22.22%) Cisco
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
6 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
6 4 (22.22%) Veeam
6 4 (22.22%) VMware
6 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (16.67%) Avamar
7 3 (16.67%) Brocade
7 3 (16.67%) EMC
7 3 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (16.67%) Git
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (16.67%) Pure Storage
7 3 (16.67%) Rubrik
7 3 (16.67%) Virtual Environments

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 3 (16.67%) Rubrik
2 2 (11.11%) Cohesity
3 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) SAN
2 5 (27.78%) NAS
3 3 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (38.89%) Storage Management
3 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
4 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.56%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) vSphere
3 1 (5.56%) Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) KVM
3 1 (5.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
3 3 (16.67%) Avamar
4 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (5.56%) Grafana
5 1 (5.56%) Graylog
5 1 (5.56%) Nagios
5 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Dell
1 5 (27.78%) NetApp
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) Veeam
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Brocade
3 3 (16.67%) EMC
3 3 (16.67%) Pure Storage
4 2 (11.11%) Commvault
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Isilon
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (11.11%) Snow
4 2 (11.11%) Veritas
4 2 (11.11%) Zerto
5 1 (5.56%) Dell Compellent
5 1 (5.56%) Hitachi
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle