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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 842 970 1228
Rank change year-on-year +128 +258 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Specialist 54 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.005% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 52 5 8
10th Percentile £62,500 - £34,710
25th Percentile - £61,250 £42,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £43,800
% change year-on-year +4.00% +42.69% -

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 14 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 14 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
England +112 36 £66,500 +6.40% 1
Work from Home +106 36 £65,000 +4.00%
UK excluding London +8 24 £65,000 +4.00% 1
London +141 18 £80,000 +28.00%
North of England +39 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 14 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 48 (88.89%) SAN
2 32 (59.26%) IBM
3 21 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (33.33%) VMware
5 17 (31.48%) Windows
5 17 (31.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (31.48%) Veeam
6 15 (27.78%) Azure
6 15 (27.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 15 (27.78%) MCSE
6 15 (27.78%) DHCP
6 15 (27.78%) DNS
6 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
6 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (27.78%) Active Directory
6 15 (27.78%) HP
6 15 (27.78%) Commvault
6 15 (27.78%) Nimble Storage
6 15 (27.78%) Virtual Servers
6 15 (27.78%) Windows Server
6 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (27.78%) ARM Templates
6 15 (27.78%) Nutanix
7 14 (25.93%) Driving Licence
8 13 (24.07%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (24.07%) Business Continuity
8 13 (24.07%) Project Delivery
8 13 (24.07%) Security Posture
9 11 (20.37%) Replication
10 10 (18.52%) Data Protection

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 (3.70%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Azure
1 15 (27.78%) Nutanix
2 2 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Storage
2 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
2 2 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (88.89%) SAN
2 15 (27.78%) DHCP
2 15 (27.78%) DNS
3 2 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (3.70%) NAS
3 2 (3.70%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
General
1 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.56%) Aerospace
2 3 (5.56%) Finance
2 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.85%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Driving Licence
2 13 (24.07%) Security Posture
3 11 (20.37%) Replication
4 10 (18.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Windows
2 15 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.41%) Linux
4 2 (3.70%) Unix
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (24.07%) Business Continuity
3 13 (24.07%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (24.07%) Project Delivery
4 10 (18.52%) Data Protection
4 10 (18.52%) Storage Management
5 9 (16.67%) High Availability
6 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
7 6 (11.11%) ITIL
8 5 (9.26%) Customer Service
9 3 (5.56%) Incident Management
9 3 (5.56%) Major Incident Management
9 3 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (5.56%) Roadmaps
10 2 (3.70%) Break/Fix
10 2 (3.70%) Performance Analysis
10 2 (3.70%) Performance Optimisation
10 2 (3.70%) Performance Tuning
10 2 (3.70%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.85%) JCL
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) MCSE
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (27.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (12.96%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) CCNA
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 15 (27.78%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (9.26%) Firmware
4 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.85%) NFS
5 1 (1.85%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) HP SIM
1 2 (3.70%) PowerCLI
1 2 (3.70%) SCOM
1 2 (3.70%) SCOrch
1 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
1 2 (3.70%) vRealize
1 2 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
1 2 (3.70%) WSUS
2 1 (1.85%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 32 (59.26%) IBM
2 18 (33.33%) VMware
3 17 (31.48%) Veeam
4 15 (27.78%) Commvault
4 15 (27.78%) HP
4 15 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 15 (27.78%) Nimble Storage
5 4 (7.41%) Dell
6 3 (5.56%) Brocade
7 2 (3.70%) 3PAR
7 2 (3.70%) Cisco
7 2 (3.70%) Citrix
7 2 (3.70%) NetApp
7 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.85%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.85%) CA