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 9 January 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 685 681
Rank change year-on-year +60 -4 +252
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 20 29 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.054% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.058% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 37
10th Percentile £46,160 £37,253 £41,050
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £101,875 £122,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £41,738 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.78% -12.13% +11.76%

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 54,127 49,926 51,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 92.94% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33,436 25,964 39,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,200 £30,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 8 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 9 January 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 +56 20 £87,500 +25.00% 6
London +47 14 £87,500 -23.91% 5
UK excluding London +56 6 £53,750 +28.78% 4
Work from Home +72 3 £60,000 +52.13% 3
North West +23 3 £60,000 +9.09% 1
North of England +9 3 £60,000 +47.49% 1
East of England - 2 £46,160 -
South East - 1 £47,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 January 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 14 (70.00%) Dell
1 14 (70.00%) Storage Management
2 12 (60.00%) Ansible
2 12 (60.00%) Python
3 9 (45.00%) SAN
4 8 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (40.00%) NetApp
5 7 (35.00%) Avamar
5 7 (35.00%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (35.00%) Data Protection
5 7 (35.00%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (35.00%) NAS
5 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (35.00%) Rubrik
6 6 (30.00%) Broadcom
6 6 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (30.00%) Git
6 6 (30.00%) GitHub
6 6 (30.00%) IBM
6 6 (30.00%) JCL
6 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (30.00%) Pure Storage
6 6 (30.00%) REXX
6 6 (30.00%) Time Sharing Option
6 6 (30.00%) Veeam
6 6 (30.00%) YAML
6 6 (30.00%) zOS
7 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (15.00%) 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 7 (35.00%) Rubrik
2 6 (30.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) SAN
2 7 (35.00%) Fibre Channel
2 7 (35.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.00%) EMC VNX
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) zOS
2 1 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Storage Management
2 8 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (35.00%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (35.00%) Data Protection
4 6 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) High Availability
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Operations
7 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (30.00%) JCL
3 6 (30.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Ansible
2 7 (35.00%) Avamar
3 2 (10.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM
4 1 (5.00%) SCOM
4 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Dell
2 8 (40.00%) NetApp
3 6 (30.00%) Broadcom
3 6 (30.00%) IBM
3 6 (30.00%) Pure Storage
3 6 (30.00%) Veeam
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) EMC
5 1 (5.00%) Brocade
5 1 (5.00%) Dell Compellent
5 1 (5.00%) Hitachi
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft