Storage Engineer Jobs

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 705 804 844
Rank change year-on-year +99 +40 +382
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 30 95 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.092% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.097% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 24 82 47
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £44,938 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £55,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% -7.27% +7.84%

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 53,806 98,156 78,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.55% 94.80% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 29,744 68,646 53,875
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £44,109
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Storage Engineer.

Salary trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 11 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 12 July 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 +92 30 £70,000 +33.33% 5
UK excluding London +93 13 £45,000 -11.76% 2
London +84 13 £75,000 -11.76% 3
Work from Home +78 9 £32,500 -20.86% 5
Midlands +77 5 £32,500 -7.14%
South East +72 5 £45,000 -24.37%
East Midlands - 4 £32,500 -
North of England +26 3 £60,750 +42.94% 1
Yorkshire +40 2 £75,000 +76.47% 1
West Midlands +67 1 £75,000 +114.29%
North West -3 1 £46,500 -11.43%

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (36.67%) Red Hat
3 10 (33.33%) Windows
3 10 (33.33%) Python
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (30.00%) Linux
4 9 (30.00%) Finance
4 9 (30.00%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (23.33%) GitHub
6 7 (23.33%) Ansible
6 7 (23.33%) Docker
6 7 (23.33%) NFS
6 7 (23.33%) SAN
6 7 (23.33%) IBM
6 7 (23.33%) Storage Management
7 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.00%) Dell
7 6 (20.00%) zOS
7 6 (20.00%) JCL
7 6 (20.00%) VMware
7 6 (20.00%) REXX
7 6 (20.00%) Broadcom
7 6 (20.00%) YAML
7 6 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
7 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
8 5 (16.67%) Terraform
8 5 (16.67%) Public Cloud

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 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) GitHub
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) Fibre Channel
2 7 (23.33%) SAN
3 5 (16.67%) NAS
4 4 (13.33%) Firewall
4 4 (13.33%) LAN
4 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (13.33%) WAN
5 3 (10.00%) DHCP
5 3 (10.00%) DNS
5 3 (10.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Financial Institution
3 4 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 4 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Linux
3 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.00%) zOS
4 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) CentOS
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Storage Management
4 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (13.33%) ERP
7 3 (10.00%) Data Management
7 3 (10.00%) Low Latency
7 3 (10.00%) Project Management
7 3 (10.00%) Project Planning
8 2 (6.67%) Migration
9 1 (3.33%) Data Protection
9 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (3.33%) Identity Management
9 1 (3.33%) Problem Management
9 1 (3.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) JCL
2 6 (20.00%) REXX
3 5 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) CCNA
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (13.33%) RHCE
3 3 (10.00%) LPIC
3 3 (10.00%) MCSE
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.33%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
1 7 (23.33%) NFS
2 6 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (13.33%) vSphere
5 3 (10.00%) GPFS
5 3 (10.00%) Lustre
6 1 (3.33%) Dovecot
6 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.33%) Postfix
6 1 (3.33%) PowerHA
6 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Ansible
3 5 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM
5 1 (3.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (3.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (23.33%) IBM
3 6 (20.00%) Broadcom
3 6 (20.00%) Dell
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
4 5 (16.67%) Commvault
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.67%) Oracle
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco
5 4 (13.33%) Pure Storage
5 4 (13.33%) SAP
6 3 (10.00%) EMC
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Hitachi
7 1 (3.33%) Okta
7 1 (3.33%) Ping Identity
7 1 (3.33%) Zerto