Storage and Backup Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Storage and Backup Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £46,160 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 - 527
Rank change year-on-year - - +215
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage and Backup Engineer 2 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 - £42,500
75th Percentile - - £44,375
90th Percentile - - £44,750
UK median annual salary £110,000 - £42,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 37,771 35,980 26,862
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 93.54% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 22,930 18,207 20,433
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,589 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Storage and Backup Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Storage and Backup Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Storage and Backup Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
East of England - 2 £46,160 - 1
Storage and Backup Engineer
UK

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Storage and Backup 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Storage and Backup Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cohesity
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments

Storage and Backup Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco