Storage Specialist
UK

The median Storage Specialist salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 988 1222
Rank change year-on-year +140 +234 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Specialist 56 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.005% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 54 5 6
10th Percentile £56,025 - £33,884
25th Percentile - £61,250 £38,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £77,375 £63,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £80,000 - £50,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £37,600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +66.22% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Storage Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Storage Specialist in the UK

Storage Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Storage Specialist in the UK

Storage Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Specialist over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Storage Specialist in the UK

Storage Specialist
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Work from Home +126 38 £65,000 +4.00%
England +118 36 £66,500 +6.40% 1
UK excluding London +38 24 £65,000 +4.00% 1
London +135 18 £80,000 +28.00%
North of England +56 8 £65,000 +4.00%
South West - 5 £65,000 -
Yorkshire - 4 £65,000 -
North West - 4 £65,000 -
Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £65,000 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £65,000 -
South East - 2 £65,000 -
Wales - 2 £65,000 -
Scotland - 2 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Storage Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 50 (89.29%) SAN
2 32 (57.14%) IBM
3 21 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (35.71%) VMware
5 19 (33.93%) Windows
5 19 (33.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (33.93%) Veeam
6 15 (26.79%) Azure
6 15 (26.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 15 (26.79%) MCSE
6 15 (26.79%) DHCP
6 15 (26.79%) DNS
6 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
6 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (26.79%) Active Directory
6 15 (26.79%) HP
6 15 (26.79%) Commvault
6 15 (26.79%) Nimble Storage
6 15 (26.79%) Windows Server
6 15 (26.79%) Virtual Servers
6 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (26.79%) ARM Templates
6 15 (26.79%) Nutanix
7 14 (25.00%) Driving Licence
8 13 (23.21%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (23.21%) Replication
8 13 (23.21%) Business Continuity
8 13 (23.21%) Security Posture
8 13 (23.21%) Project Delivery
9 12 (21.43%) Storage Management

Storage Specialist 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 2 (3.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
1 15 (26.79%) Nutanix
2 2 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
2 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (89.29%) SAN
2 15 (26.79%) DHCP
2 15 (26.79%) DNS
3 4 (7.14%) NAS
4 2 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.57%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
General
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.79%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.79%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 13 (23.21%) Replication
2 13 (23.21%) Security Posture
3 12 (21.43%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.93%) Windows
2 15 (26.79%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 4 (7.14%) Unix
4 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (23.21%) Business Continuity
3 13 (23.21%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (23.21%) Project Delivery
4 12 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 12 (21.43%) Storage Management
5 11 (19.64%) High Availability
6 8 (14.29%) ITIL
7 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 7 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (7.14%) Availability Management
9 4 (7.14%) Change Management
9 4 (7.14%) Migration
9 4 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (7.14%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 4 (7.14%) Time Management
10 3 (5.36%) Incident Management
10 3 (5.36%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) JCL
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) MCSE
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (26.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) CCNA
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 19 (33.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (26.79%) Active Directory
2 15 (26.79%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (8.93%) Firmware
4 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.79%) NFS
6 1 (1.79%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) HP SIM
1 2 (3.57%) PowerCLI
1 2 (3.57%) SCOM
1 2 (3.57%) SCOrch
1 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (3.57%) vCenter Server
1 2 (3.57%) vRealize
1 2 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
1 2 (3.57%) WSUS
2 1 (1.79%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 32 (57.14%) IBM
2 20 (35.71%) VMware
3 19 (33.93%) Veeam
4 15 (26.79%) Commvault
4 15 (26.79%) HP
4 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
4 15 (26.79%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (10.71%) Dell
6 4 (7.14%) NetApp
7 3 (5.36%) Brocade
8 2 (3.57%) 3PAR
8 2 (3.57%) Cisco
8 2 (3.57%) Citrix
8 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.79%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.79%) CA