Enterprise Storage Job Trends

Enterprise Storage
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Storage in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Storage over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 700 666 822
Rank change year-on-year -34 +156 -1
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Storage 61 18 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.037% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.089% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 51 17 53
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +22.02% -26.67%
75th Percentile £73,125 £68,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +26.32% -29.17%

All Generic Skills
UK

Enterprise Storage falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,610 20,152 34,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.96% 40.95% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,365 9,957 21,955
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,065 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.13% - -9.09%

Enterprise Storage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Enterprise Storage job vacancy trend in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Storage.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Storage over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Storage in the UK

Enterprise Storage
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Storage within the UK over the 6 months to 12 July 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 -27 51 £57,500 +7.10% 15
UK excluding London -48 37 £55,000 +2.44% 16
Work from Home +12 26 £60,000 +84.62% 9
London 0 18 £62,500 -28.57% 2
South East -13 16 £60,000 +29.03% 6
North of England -15 9 £48,750 +50.00% 7
North West - 9 £48,750 - 2
Midlands -27 6 £58,250 +8.50% 1
Scotland - 4 - -
West Midlands -17 3 £53,688 -
East Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 1
South West -57 2 £62,500 +13.64%

Enterprise Storage
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.64%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 46 (75.41%) Azure
2 17 (27.87%) AWS
3 12 (19.67%) Nutanix
4 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (9.84%) GCP
6 5 (8.20%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub
7 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.28%) IaaS
7 2 (3.28%) PaaS
8 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.64%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 21 (34.43%) Firewall
2 13 (21.31%) SAN
3 7 (11.48%) Fibre Channel
3 7 (11.48%) iSCSI
4 6 (9.84%) LAN
4 6 (9.84%) WAN
5 5 (8.20%) NAS
5 5 (8.20%) VLAN
6 4 (6.56%) DHCP
6 4 (6.56%) DNS
6 4 (6.56%) VPN
6 4 (6.56%) VSAN
7 3 (4.92%) NetScaler
7 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.64%) Internet
8 1 (1.64%) Network Security
8 1 (1.64%) VoIP
8 1 (1.64%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Retail
4 2 (3.28%) Finance
4 2 (3.28%) German Language
4 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (44.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Senior
3 11 (18.03%) Consultant
4 7 (11.48%) Architect
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 7 (11.48%) Technical Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Senior Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) Senior VMware Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Senior VMware Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (9.84%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) VMware Architect
5 6 (9.84%) VMware Consultant
5 6 (9.84%) VMware Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) Middleware
1 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (45.90%) Data Centre
2 15 (24.59%) Replication
3 13 (21.31%) Clustering
4 11 (18.03%) iSeries
5 8 (13.11%) Driving Licence
6 7 (11.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (9.84%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 2 (3.28%) Life Science
8 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.28%) SCADA
9 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (42.62%) Windows
2 18 (29.51%) Windows Server
3 16 (26.23%) Linux
4 6 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.28%) VMS
5 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (57.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (49.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (26.23%) High Availability
4 16 (26.23%) Storage Management
5 12 (19.67%) ITIL
6 10 (16.39%) Project Delivery
7 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.11%) DevOps
8 8 (13.11%) Server Management
9 7 (11.48%) Business Continuity
9 7 (11.48%) Business Continuity Planning
9 7 (11.48%) Converged Infrastructure
9 7 (11.48%) Data Protection
9 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
9 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (9.84%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (26.23%) PowerShell
2 10 (16.39%) SQL
3 5 (8.20%) Bash
3 5 (8.20%) Python
4 3 (4.92%) Java
4 3 (4.92%) Korn
4 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.92%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (9.84%) Dell Certification
4 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (8.20%) Degree
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.56%) MCSA
7 3 (4.92%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.28%) CISSP
8 2 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.64%) CCDA
9 1 (1.64%) CCNP
9 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.64%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) PMO
2 4 (6.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (80.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (39.34%) Hyper-V
3 17 (27.87%) Active Directory
4 16 (26.23%) vSphere
5 15 (24.59%) Firmware
6 2 (3.28%) Docker
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Ansible
2 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.48%) Terraform
3 7 (11.48%) VxRail
4 6 (9.84%) Avamar
4 6 (9.84%) Dell DRAC
4 6 (9.84%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (9.84%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (6.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.92%) Data Guard
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle Flashback
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (3.28%) Grafana
7 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.28%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.64%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (86.89%) VMware
2 29 (47.54%) Microsoft
3 20 (32.79%) Veeam
4 18 (29.51%) Dell
5 16 (26.23%) EMC
5 16 (26.23%) NetApp
6 13 (21.31%) Commvault
7 12 (19.67%) IBM
8 11 (18.03%) HP
9 8 (13.11%) Isilon
10 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
11 6 (9.84%) 3PAR
11 6 (9.84%) Citrix
11 6 (9.84%) Nimble Storage
12 3 (4.92%) Oracle
13 2 (3.28%) Cisco
13 2 (3.28%) Pure Storage
14 1 (1.64%) Meraki
14 1 (1.64%) Sophos
14 1 (1.64%) Zerto