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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 712 626 808
Rank change year-on-year -86 +182 +102
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 18 14 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.033% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.037% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 54
10th Percentile £45,232 - £32,500
25th Percentile £46,160 £31,250 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -22.13%
75th Percentile - £63,500 £53,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 £66,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £32,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year +84.62% -29.73% -7.50%

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 83,975 37,966 90,660
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 89.30% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 54,064 23,403 66,761
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.21%

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 3 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 9 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 3 May 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 -48 15 £60,000 +33.33% 6
UK excluding London -68 13 £60,000 +84.62% 5
North of England -51 10 £60,000 +29.03%
North West -9 9 £60,000 +29.03%
Work from Home +14 7 £60,000 +84.62% 2
East of England - 2 £46,160 -
London -10 1 £120,000 +61.62% 2
Yorkshire -59 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 7 (38.89%) SAN
2 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Storage Management
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco
4 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
4 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 4 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) Ansible
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (11.11%) Brocade
6 2 (11.11%) Cohesity
6 2 (11.11%) Commvault
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Dell
6 2 (11.11%) EMC
6 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
6 2 (11.11%) HP
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.11%) Isilon

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 2 (11.11%) Cohesity
2 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Finance
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Storage Management
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.56%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) vSphere
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.56%) Avamar
4 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Graylog
4 1 (5.56%) Nagios
4 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Brocade
3 2 (11.11%) Commvault
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) EMC
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) Isilon
3 2 (11.11%) NetApp
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Snow
3 2 (11.11%) Veeam
3 2 (11.11%) Veritas
3 2 (11.11%) Zerto
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Pure Storage