Storage Engineer Jobs

Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £45,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 669 820 923
Rank change year-on-year +151 +103 +234
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 15 65 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.066% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.070% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 12 54 52
10th Percentile - £32,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,101 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £47,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -22.13% +10.91%
75th Percentile £62,813 £53,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,375 £66,750 £89,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,750 £46,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.22% -7.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Storage Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +146 15 £45,750 -8.50% 20
UK excluding London +162 9 £38,750 -16.22% 5
Work from Home +163 6 £32,500 -20.86% 8
Midlands +58 5 £32,500 -7.14% 2
East Midlands - 5 £32,500 -
London +97 4 £74,250 -7.19% 12
South East +104 2 £45,000 -23.73% 1
North of England +75 2 £46,500 +32.86% 1
Yorkshire +69 1 - -
North West +26 1 £46,500 +32.86% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Storage 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (26.67%) CCNA
4 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (26.67%) SAN
4 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (26.67%) Docker
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Bash
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) EMC
5 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (13.33%) Oracle
6 2 (13.33%) SAP
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) Finance
6 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
6 2 (13.33%) AWS

Storage 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) EMC VNX
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) CentOS
4 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Agile
1 3 (20.00%) DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (13.33%) ERP
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (6.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (6.67%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (6.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (6.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum
3 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) CCNA
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) RHCE
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Dovecot
3 1 (6.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Postfix
3 1 (6.67%) PowerHA
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) SCCM
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) EMC
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Hitachi
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Isilon
4 1 (6.67%) Okta
4 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity