Hybrid/Remote Storage Management Job Trends

Storage Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Storage Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 389 441
Rank change year-on-year +32 +52 +171
Permanent jobs citing Storage Management 18 57 53
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10 26 47
10th Percentile £40,000 £54,375 £37,743
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £44,515
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,627 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.03% +3.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £75,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +22.73% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,340 15,743 19,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.29% 93.10% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,449 9,383 15,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Storage Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Storage Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Storage Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Storage Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Storage Management

Storage Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Storage Management over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Storage Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Storage Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (38.89%) Serverless
3 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 5 (27.78%) GitHub
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
7 1 (5.56%) Azure App Service
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.56%) Firebase
7 1 (5.56%) IaaS
7 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) SD-WAN
2 7 (38.89%) VPN
2 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 6 (33.33%) SSL
4 3 (16.67%) Network Security
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
6 1 (5.56%) DHCP
6 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
6 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Back Office
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (27.78%) Developer
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 4 (22.22%) Lead Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Lead Python Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior Python Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior SQL Developer
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leader
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) OAuth
1 5 (27.78%) OAuth2
1 5 (27.78%) OpenID
2 4 (22.22%) CSS
2 4 (22.22%) Flask
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) CMDB
2 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 4 (22.22%) PKI
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
2 7 (38.89%) Migration
2 7 (38.89%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 6 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven Programming
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) MVC
5 4 (22.22%) OOP
5 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 4 (22.22%) User Experience
5 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (38.89%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) CISA
2 2 (11.11%) CISM
2 2 (11.11%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) CRISC
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 6 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.56%) Firmware
4 1 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SonicWALL
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) Foundry