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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 654 750
Rank change year-on-year +1 +96 +197
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 21 17 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.037% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.041% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 18 15 60
10th Percentile £46,160 £37,258 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £48,500 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +26.32% -22.13%
75th Percentile £86,125 £126,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £59,350
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £44,648 £45,000
% change year-on-year +34.39% -0.78% +5.88%

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 64,631 41,533 74,664
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 91.12% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 40,860 22,616 57,810
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,073
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.25%

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 March 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 3 March 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 +2 20 £60,000 - 12
UK excluding London +2 12 £60,000 +34.39% 7
North of England -28 8 £60,000 +40.20% 1
Work from Home +28 7 £60,000 +48.16% 4
London +21 7 £110,000 -4.35% 5
North West +11 7 £60,000 +18.23%
East of England - 2 £46,160 - 2
Yorkshire -39 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £47,500 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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 11 (52.38%) Disaster Recovery
1 11 (52.38%) SAN
2 9 (42.86%) Storage Management
3 8 (38.10%) Dell
3 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
3 8 (38.10%) Python
4 7 (33.33%) Ansible
4 7 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 7 (33.33%) NetApp
5 6 (28.57%) NAS
6 5 (23.81%) Avamar
6 5 (23.81%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (23.81%) Rubrik
6 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
6 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
6 5 (23.81%) Veeam
7 4 (19.05%) Change Management
7 4 (19.05%) Cisco
7 4 (19.05%) EMC
7 4 (19.05%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (19.05%) Git
7 4 (19.05%) High Availability
7 4 (19.05%) ITIL
7 4 (19.05%) NetBackup
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (19.05%) Pure Storage
8 3 (14.29%) Brocade
8 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (14.29%) vCenter Server

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 5 (23.81%) Rubrik
2 2 (9.52%) Cohesity
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) SAN
2 6 (28.57%) NAS
3 4 (19.05%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (9.52%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) EMC VNX
4 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (42.86%) Storage Management
3 7 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 5 (23.81%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (19.05%) Change Management
5 4 (19.05%) High Availability
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (9.52%) Business Continuity
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
7 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy
7 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) JCL
2 1 (4.76%) REXX
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.52%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) KVM
3 1 (4.76%) NFS
3 1 (4.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Avamar
3 4 (19.05%) NetBackup
4 3 (14.29%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Graylog
5 1 (4.76%) Nagios
5 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.76%) SCCM
5 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Dell
2 7 (33.33%) NetApp
3 5 (23.81%) Veeam
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 4 (19.05%) EMC
4 4 (19.05%) Pure Storage
5 3 (14.29%) Brocade
5 3 (14.29%) VMware
6 2 (9.52%) Commvault
6 2 (9.52%) HP
6 2 (9.52%) Isilon
6 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (9.52%) Snow
6 2 (9.52%) Veritas
6 2 (9.52%) Zerto
7 1 (4.76%) Dell Compellent
7 1 (4.76%) Hitachi
7 1 (4.76%) IBM
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle