Storage and Backup Engineer Jobs

Storage and Backup Engineer
UK

The median Storage and Backup Engineer salary in the UK is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 881 967 1205
Rank change year-on-year +86 +238 -302
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Engineer 21 5 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.005% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.005% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 19 4 24
10th Percentile £45,000 - £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +22.22% -39.60%
75th Percentile £53,000 £63,688 £47,500
90th Percentile £53,150 £74,825 £58,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +22.22% -18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Storage and Backup Engineer in the UK

Storage and Backup Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Storage and Backup Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 +115 21 £51,000 -7.27% 7
UK excluding London +20 21 £51,000 -7.27% 7
South West -4 19 £51,000 -7.27% 4
Work from Home - 9 £50,000 - 3
North of England +55 2 - -
North West - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Storage and Backup 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 and Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (90.48%) EMC
2 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (76.19%) EMC NetWorker
3 16 (76.19%) Veeam
3 16 (76.19%) Windows
3 16 (76.19%) Linux
4 15 (71.43%) VMware
4 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
4 15 (71.43%) EMC VNX
5 14 (66.67%) vCenter Server
5 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
5 14 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (66.67%) SolarWinds
5 14 (66.67%) Brocade
5 14 (66.67%) Nagios
6 11 (52.38%) iSCSI
6 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
7 8 (38.10%) ZABBIX
7 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
7 8 (38.10%) Fibre Channel
7 8 (38.10%) NetApp
7 8 (38.10%) Replication
8 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
8 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
9 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
9 5 (23.81%) Meraki
9 5 (23.81%) Ansible
9 5 (23.81%) Docker
9 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation

Storage and Backup 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) AWS
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (23.81%) Nutanix
1 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) iSCSI
2 8 (38.10%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (23.81%) WLAN
4 2 (9.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MySQL
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 15 (71.43%) EMC VNX
2 8 (38.10%) Replication
3 5 (23.81%) Public Cloud
3 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Linux
1 16 (76.19%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Mentoring
3 5 (23.81%) ITSM
3 5 (23.81%) Security Patching
3 5 (23.81%) Server Management
3 5 (23.81%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
4 2 (9.52%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (23.81%) Docker
4 2 (9.52%) SRDF
5 1 (4.76%) KVM
Systems Management
1 16 (76.19%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (66.67%) Nagios
2 14 (66.67%) vCenter Server
3 8 (38.10%) ZABBIX
4 5 (23.81%) Ansible
4 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 5 (23.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) EMC
2 16 (76.19%) Veeam
3 15 (71.43%) VMware
4 14 (66.67%) Brocade
4 14 (66.67%) SolarWinds
5 8 (38.10%) NetApp
6 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 5 (23.81%) Aruba
7 5 (23.81%) Meraki
7 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.76%) Dell