Storage Management Job Trends in the Midlands

Storage Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Storage Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 222 230
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +96
Permanent jobs citing Storage Management 5 17 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 6
10th Percentile - - £43,158
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -1.41%
75th Percentile £53,750 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,750 £60,625
England median annual salary £82,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% +22.73% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Storage Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,316 5,806 4,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.35% 90.45% 86.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,499 2,544 4,063
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Storage Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Storage Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Storage Management
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Storage Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Storage Management

Storage Management
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Storage Management in the Midlands

Storage Management
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
West Midlands +33 5 £52,500 +0.96% 2
Storage Management
England

Storage Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) TimescaleDB
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Meraki
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) SonicWALL
1 4 (80.00%) Veeam
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Google