Storage Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Storage Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Storage Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 631 717 890
Rank change year-on-year +86 +173 -206
Permanent jobs citing Storage Management 267 258 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.26% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 152 182 240
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £39,850
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,975 £70,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +17.50% +31.42%
75th Percentile £63,750 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £97,500 £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £46,500 £57,275
% change year-on-year +5.38% -18.81% +36.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Storage Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Storage Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +113 230 £52,000 -28.28% 67
UK excluding London +94 213 £49,000 +5.38% 47
Work from Home +142 132 £54,500 -30.79% 15
South East +55 55 £59,000 +38.82% 18
North of England +70 50 £40,000 -13.04% 11
London +65 40 £60,500 -19.33% 21
South West +34 38 £37,500 - 6
Midlands +18 34 £55,000 -8.33% 7
North West +33 30 £35,000 -53.33% 4
East Midlands +2 23 £50,000 +8.42% 6
Yorkshire +91 15 £42,500 -7.61% 6
East of England +3 12 £47,500 +2.15% 9
West Midlands +20 11 £105,000 +50.00% 1
Scotland -66 11 - - 1
Wales +18 8 £40,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +33 5 - -
North East -2 5 £42,500 -32.00% 1

Storage Management
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 55 (20.60%) Apache
2 13 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
4 2 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.50%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.75%) InDesign
3 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.12%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.34%) Azure
2 60 (22.47%) Amazon S3
3 34 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (10.11%) IaaS
5 23 (8.61%) AWS
6 17 (6.37%) Nutanix
7 15 (5.62%) GCP
7 15 (5.62%) OCI
8 13 (4.87%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.87%) PaaS
8 13 (4.87%) SaaS
9 11 (4.12%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.12%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.75%) Azure Storage
12 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 109 (40.82%) Firewall
2 70 (26.22%) SAN
3 67 (25.09%) VPN
4 57 (21.35%) Internet
5 56 (20.97%) IPsec
6 54 (20.22%) SNMP
7 38 (14.23%) DNS
8 23 (8.61%) DHCP
9 22 (8.24%) NAS
10 19 (7.12%) LAN
11 16 (5.99%) WAN
12 12 (4.49%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.62%) MPLS
13 7 (2.62%) VLAN
13 7 (2.62%) WLAN
14 6 (2.25%) TCP/IP
15 4 (1.50%) VoIP
16 3 (1.12%) HTTP
16 3 (1.12%) Network Security
16 3 (1.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (31.84%) MongoDB
2 55 (20.60%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (7.49%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.49%) Big Data
5 9 (3.37%) Power BI
6 5 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.87%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.50%) Metadata
8 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.37%) OrientDB
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
10 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Git
2 2 (0.75%) JIRA
2 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.75%) WiX
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 120 (44.94%) Finance
2 66 (24.72%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.00%) Advertising
4 8 (3.00%) Law
4 8 (3.00%) Marketing
5 7 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.25%) Banking
6 6 (2.25%) Legal
6 6 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Automotive
8 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Games
8 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.75%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.75%) Publishing
8 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.37%) Retail
9 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (25.47%) Consultant
2 62 (23.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 54 (20.22%) NetApp Consultant
4 36 (13.48%) DBA
5 35 (13.11%) Administrator
6 27 (10.11%) DV Cleared DBA
7 25 (9.36%) IT Engineer
8 24 (8.99%) Senior
9 19 (7.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (6.74%) IT Manager
11 17 (6.37%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.87%) Storage Engineer
12 13 (4.87%) Storage Specialist
12 13 (4.87%) Support Engineer
13 12 (4.49%) IT Support
14 11 (4.12%) Architect
15 10 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
15 10 (3.75%) Network Engineer
16 9 (3.37%) Analyst
17 8 (3.00%) IT Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.60%) YAML
2 54 (20.22%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (2.62%) Middleware
3 7 (2.62%) REST
3 7 (2.62%) SOAP
4 6 (2.25%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.12%) EDI
6 2 (0.75%) LAMP
6 2 (0.75%) V-Ray
6 2 (0.75%) Web Services
7 1 (0.37%) .NET
7 1 (0.37%) J2EE
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 103 (38.58%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.24%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.62%) IoT
4 13 (4.87%) Replication
5 11 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.50%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.50%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.12%) Social Media
9 3 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.75%) Clustering
10 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.75%) PKI
10 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 162 (60.67%) Windows
2 126 (47.19%) Linux
3 55 (20.60%) Data ONTAP
4 47 (17.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 46 (17.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 42 (15.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (13.86%) Windows Server
8 30 (11.24%) CentOS
9 16 (5.99%) Windows 10
10 14 (5.24%) Unix
11 12 (4.49%) Ubuntu
11 12 (4.49%) Windows XP
12 9 (3.37%) Solaris
13 3 (1.12%) zOS
14 1 (0.37%) AIX
14 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (47.19%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (33.71%) Project Management
3 84 (31.46%) Actionable Insight
4 64 (23.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 59 (22.10%) Infrastructure Management
6 55 (20.60%) Project Planning
7 54 (20.22%) Release Management
8 52 (19.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 44 (16.48%) Performance Monitoring
10 43 (16.10%) ITIL
10 43 (16.10%) Mentoring
11 38 (14.23%) Server Management
12 33 (12.36%) User Experience
13 30 (11.24%) Capacity Management
13 30 (11.24%) Database Tuning
14 27 (10.11%) Agile
15 26 (9.74%) Computer Science
16 25 (9.36%) Decision-Making
16 25 (9.36%) DevOps
17 24 (8.99%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 73 (27.34%) Python
2 54 (20.22%) SQL
3 50 (18.73%) Bash
4 46 (17.23%) PowerShell
5 16 (5.99%) Perl
6 5 (1.87%) Bicep
7 3 (1.12%) JCL
7 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) AWK
8 1 (0.37%) Bourne shell
8 1 (0.37%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) C++
8 1 (0.37%) Formula Language
8 1 (0.37%) Korn
8 1 (0.37%) ProC
8 1 (0.37%) REXX
8 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (23.22%) Degree
2 53 (19.85%) Security Cleared
3 39 (14.61%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (6.37%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.99%) CCNA
7 14 (5.24%) CCNP
7 14 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (4.87%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.00%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.50%) A+ Certification
13 3 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.12%) OCP
13 3 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.75%) CCIE
14 2 (0.75%) MCP
14 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.75%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.24%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.00%) SLA
3 3 (1.12%) GDPR
3 3 (1.12%) QA
4 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 111 (41.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (22.85%) Docker
3 60 (22.47%) Active Directory
4 28 (10.49%) Hyper-V
5 20 (7.49%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (7.12%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.62%) SRDF
8 5 (1.87%) NFS
8 5 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.75%) pfSense
11 2 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.75%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (25.47%) vCenter Server
2 62 (23.22%) Ansible
3 57 (21.35%) Kubernetes
4 54 (20.22%) Prometheus
5 22 (8.24%) SCCM
6 13 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.87%) NetBackup
6 13 (4.87%) WSUS
7 12 (4.49%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (4.49%) SCOM
8 7 (2.62%) Terraform
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.12%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle Statspack
11 2 (0.75%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.75%) Grafana
11 2 (0.75%) Nagios
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 124 (46.44%) VMware
2 110 (41.20%) Microsoft
3 85 (31.84%) Red Hat
4 67 (25.09%) Palo Alto
5 61 (22.85%) NetApp
6 54 (20.22%) SolidFire
7 47 (17.60%) Oracle
8 30 (11.24%) Cisco
9 21 (7.87%) Dell
9 21 (7.87%) EMC
10 20 (7.49%) Veeam
11 17 (6.37%) HP
12 15 (5.62%) IBM
13 12 (4.49%) 3PAR
13 12 (4.49%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (4.49%) Juniper
13 12 (4.49%) Symantec
14 10 (3.75%) Brocade
15 8 (3.00%) Sophos
16 6 (2.25%) ESET