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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 750 643 755
Rank change year-on-year -107 +112 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 24 31 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.063% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.070% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 15 26 70
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £46,625 £49,688 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +38.10% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £83,125 £59,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £88,750 £80,000
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 95,972 44,419 82,565
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 90.03% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 65,619 26,374 56,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%

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 29 July 2026.

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 29 July 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 -97 21 £60,000 -17.24% 10
UK excluding London -80 15 £60,000 +33.33% 10
South East -31 8 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Work from Home -34 7 £65,000 +100.00% 7
London -36 5 £65,000 -18.75% 1
North of England -35 4 - - 2
North West -13 3 - -
East of England - 2 - - 3
Yorkshire -30 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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 17 (70.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) SAN
3 6 (25.00%) NetApp
3 6 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 6 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
5 4 (16.67%) Ansible
5 4 (16.67%) HTML
5 4 (16.67%) Project Management
5 4 (16.67%) Python
5 4 (16.67%) Veeam
5 4 (16.67%) vSphere
6 3 (12.50%) Change Management
6 3 (12.50%) Dell
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (8.33%) Brocade
7 2 (8.33%) CentOS
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco
7 2 (8.33%) Commvault
7 2 (8.33%) Data Management
7 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (8.33%) EMC
7 2 (8.33%) High Availability

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 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) SAN
2 2 (8.33%) NAS
3 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Replication
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) CentOS
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Rocky
1 2 (8.33%) VMS
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
1 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (12.50%) Change Management
4 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Data Management
5 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (8.33%) High Availability
5 2 (8.33%) Operational Stability
5 2 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (8.33%) Storage Management
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (4.17%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (4.17%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (4.17%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (4.17%) Presales
6 1 (4.17%) Storage Virtualisation
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.17%) MCSE
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) vSphere
3 3 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) NetApp
1 6 (25.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Veeam
4 3 (12.50%) Dell
5 2 (8.33%) Brocade
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) Commvault
5 2 (8.33%) EMC
5 2 (8.33%) HP
5 2 (8.33%) Isilon
5 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) Snow
5 2 (8.33%) Veritas
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Zerto