Storage Engineer Job Trends

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 694 667
Rank change year-on-year +62 -27 +302
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 21 31 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.055% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.058% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 38
10th Percentile £46,160 £37,662 £42,125
25th Percentile £70,500 £51,375 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £87,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +59.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,313 £122,500 £83,438
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,160 £41,738 £47,500
% change year-on-year +10.59% -12.13% +11.76%

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 53,173 53,172 46,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 93.59% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32,782 28,551 36,094
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,634 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,589 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% - -

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 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 5 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 December 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 +83 21 £87,500 - 17
London +54 17 £87,500 -22.22% 6
UK excluding London +58 3 £46,160 +10.59% 11
East of England - 2 £46,160 - 3
South East - 1 £47,500 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 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 17 (80.95%) Dell
1 17 (80.95%) Storage Management
2 15 (71.43%) Ansible
2 15 (71.43%) Python
3 10 (47.62%) Fibre Channel
3 10 (47.62%) SAN
4 9 (42.86%) Broadcom
4 9 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
4 9 (42.86%) GitHub
4 9 (42.86%) IBM
4 9 (42.86%) JCL
4 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 9 (42.86%) REXX
4 9 (42.86%) Time Sharing Option
4 9 (42.86%) YAML
4 9 (42.86%) zOS
5 8 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (38.10%) NAS
5 8 (38.10%) NetApp
6 7 (33.33%) Avamar
6 7 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (33.33%) Data Protection
6 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
6 7 (33.33%) Rubrik
7 6 (28.57%) Git
7 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (28.57%) Pure Storage
7 6 (28.57%) Veeam
8 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 3 (14.29%) ITIL

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 9 (42.86%) GitHub
2 7 (33.33%) Rubrik
3 2 (9.52%) Cohesity
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Fibre Channel
1 10 (47.62%) SAN
2 8 (38.10%) NAS
3 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (28.57%) Git
General
1 16 (76.19%) Finance
2 9 (42.86%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Data Centre
2 11 (52.38%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.76%) EMC VNX
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) zOS
2 1 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Storage Management
2 9 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
3 8 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) ITIL
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (9.52%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy
7 2 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.52%) Virtual Environments
8 1 (4.76%) Agile
8 1 (4.76%) Business Continuity
8 1 (4.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) JCL
2 9 (42.86%) REXX
3 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (71.43%) Ansible
2 7 (33.33%) Avamar
3 2 (9.52%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) SCCM
4 1 (4.76%) SCOM
4 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Dell
2 9 (42.86%) Broadcom
2 9 (42.86%) IBM
3 8 (38.10%) NetApp
4 6 (28.57%) Pure Storage
4 6 (28.57%) Veeam
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
5 2 (9.52%) EMC
6 1 (4.76%) Brocade
6 1 (4.76%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (4.76%) Hitachi
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.76%) SAP