Storage Engineer Job Trends

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 728 732
Rank change year-on-year +88 +4 +374
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 34 63 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.081% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.085% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 29 45 45
10th Percentile £31,250 - £46,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile - £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -38.10% -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 44,309 74,419 56,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.24% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,050 44,613 44,179
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +78 34 £75,000 +42.86% 6
London +66 19 £87,500 -12.50% 1
UK excluding London +77 11 £32,500 -38.10% 6
Work from Home +80 7 £32,500 -30.24% 4
Midlands - 5 £32,500 -
South East +43 4 £47,500 -32.14% 5
East Midlands - 4 £32,500 -
North of England +23 2 £75,000 +42.86%
Yorkshire +14 2 £75,000 +84.36%
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, 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 18 (52.94%) Python
1 18 (52.94%) Data Centre
2 16 (47.06%) Storage Management
2 16 (47.06%) Ansible
2 16 (47.06%) Finance
3 15 (44.12%) Dell
4 14 (41.18%) Fibre Channel
5 13 (38.24%) GitHub
5 13 (38.24%) IBM
6 12 (35.29%) REXX
6 12 (35.29%) zOS
6 12 (35.29%) JCL
6 12 (35.29%) YAML
6 12 (35.29%) Broadcom
6 12 (35.29%) Time Sharing Option
7 10 (29.41%) Red Hat
8 9 (26.47%) SAN
8 9 (26.47%) Windows
8 9 (26.47%) Financial Institution
8 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
8 9 (26.47%) DevOps
8 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
8 9 (26.47%) Cost Optimisation
9 8 (23.53%) NAS
9 8 (23.53%) Agile
9 8 (23.53%) Linux
10 7 (20.59%) NFS
10 7 (20.59%) Git
10 7 (20.59%) Pure Storage

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) GitHub
2 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.82%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 14 (41.18%) Fibre Channel
2 9 (26.47%) SAN
3 8 (23.53%) 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
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.59%) Git
General
1 16 (47.06%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Financial Institution
3 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (52.94%) Data Centre
2 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (14.71%) Public Cloud
4 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (35.29%) zOS
2 9 (26.47%) Windows
3 8 (23.53%) Linux
4 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Storage Management
2 9 (26.47%) Cost Optimisation
2 9 (26.47%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 4 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 4 (11.76%) ERP
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.82%) Data Management
6 3 (8.82%) Low Latency
6 3 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (8.82%) Project Management
6 3 (8.82%) Project Planning
7 2 (5.88%) High Availability
8 1 (2.94%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) JCL
2 12 (35.29%) REXX
3 3 (8.82%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) Perl
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) CCNA
1 4 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) LPIC
2 3 (8.82%) MCSE
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.82%) RHCE
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Time Sharing Option
2 7 (20.59%) NFS
3 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (14.71%) Docker
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (11.76%) vSphere
5 3 (8.82%) GPFS
5 3 (8.82%) Lustre
6 1 (2.94%) PowerHA
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Ansible
2 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Avamar
3 4 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Nagios
4 1 (2.94%) SCCM
4 1 (2.94%) SCOM
4 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Dell
2 13 (38.24%) IBM
3 12 (35.29%) Broadcom
4 10 (29.41%) Red Hat
5 7 (20.59%) Pure Storage
6 5 (14.71%) Commvault
6 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
6 5 (14.71%) Oracle
6 5 (14.71%) VMware
7 4 (11.76%) Cisco
7 4 (11.76%) SAP
8 3 (8.82%) NetApp
8 3 (8.82%) Veeam
9 2 (5.88%) EMC
10 1 (2.94%) Zerto