Storage Engineer
UK

The median Storage Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 812 912 1177
Rank change year-on-year +100 +265 -315
Permanent jobs requiring a Storage Engineer 72 63 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.063% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.069% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 61 51 59
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,101 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +10.91% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,000 £64,675
90th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +14.58% +6.67%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £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 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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Storage Engineer in the UK

Storage Engineer
Top 13 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 20 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 +88 65 £51,000 -16.39% 26
UK excluding London +26 60 £50,000 -9.09% 20
Work from Home +86 25 £41,067 -39.16% 6
South West -2 22 £51,000 -7.27% 4
North of England +44 13 £35,000 -30.00% 4
London +85 12 £80,000 +16.36% 6
South East +11 10 £59,000 -9.23% 5
North West - 10 £35,000 - 3
West Midlands +17 8 £35,000 -26.32%
Midlands -7 8 £35,000 -26.32% 3
Wales - 7 £41,067 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £42,500 - 1
North East -5 1 £37,500 -25.00%

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 43 (59.72%) Linux
2 42 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (55.56%) Windows
4 34 (47.22%) Security Cleared
5 31 (43.06%) VMware
5 31 (43.06%) EMC
6 28 (38.89%) SC Cleared
7 24 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 24 (33.33%) SAN
8 22 (30.56%) Brocade
9 20 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
9 20 (27.78%) Veeam
10 19 (26.39%) EMC NetWorker
11 18 (25.00%) vCenter Server
12 16 (22.22%) Windows Server
13 15 (20.83%) Storage Management
13 15 (20.83%) EMC VNX
13 15 (20.83%) SolarWinds
13 15 (20.83%) AWS
14 14 (19.44%) NetApp
14 14 (19.44%) Nagios
14 14 (19.44%) PowerShell
14 14 (19.44%) iSCSI
15 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
16 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
16 12 (16.67%) Ansible
16 12 (16.67%) Azure
17 11 (15.28%) SCCM
17 11 (15.28%) Microsoft

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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (9.72%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (9.72%) Slack
4 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.94%) Nutanix
4 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.17%) OCI
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.39%) GitHub
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 24 (33.33%) SAN
2 14 (19.44%) iSCSI
3 10 (13.89%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (9.72%) NAS
5 5 (6.94%) WLAN
6 4 (5.56%) DHCP
6 4 (5.56%) DNS
6 4 (5.56%) Firewall
6 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.39%) LAN
7 1 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) MySQL
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.17%) Finance
2 3 (4.17%) Retail
3 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.39%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) EMC VNX
2 8 (11.11%) Replication
3 7 (9.72%) CMDB
3 7 (9.72%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 6 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 43 (59.72%) Linux
2 40 (55.56%) Windows
3 16 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 10 (13.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.17%) Windows XP
8 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.78%) Unix
9 1 (1.39%) SUSE
9 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (20.83%) Storage Management
3 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (13.89%) Proactive Monitoring
5 9 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 9 (12.50%) Server Management
6 8 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 8 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (9.72%) Change Management
7 7 (9.72%) Configuration Management
7 7 (9.72%) Line Management
7 7 (9.72%) Migration
8 6 (8.33%) Agile
8 6 (8.33%) ITSM
8 6 (8.33%) Project Management
9 5 (6.94%) ITIL
9 5 (6.94%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (6.94%) Security Patching
9 5 (6.94%) Service Management
10 4 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.17%) Bash
2 3 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (1.39%) JCL
3 1 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) Degree
5 5 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.17%) CCNA
7 3 (4.17%) CCNP
7 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (15.28%) Active Directory
4 9 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 7 (9.72%) SRDF
6 5 (6.94%) Docker
7 3 (4.17%) NFS
7 3 (4.17%) vSphere
8 2 (2.78%) GPFS
9 1 (1.39%) Firmware
9 1 (1.39%) KVM
9 1 (1.39%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 19 (26.39%) EMC NetWorker
2 18 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 14 (19.44%) Nagios
4 12 (16.67%) Ansible
5 11 (15.28%) SCCM
6 8 (11.11%) Terraform
6 8 (11.11%) ZABBIX
7 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
8 4 (5.56%) NetBackup
8 4 (5.56%) SCOM
9 3 (4.17%) WSUS
10 1 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 31 (43.06%) EMC
1 31 (43.06%) VMware
2 22 (30.56%) Brocade
3 20 (27.78%) Veeam
4 15 (20.83%) SolarWinds
5 14 (19.44%) NetApp
6 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
7 7 (9.72%) Cisco
8 6 (8.33%) Dell
9 5 (6.94%) Aruba
9 5 (6.94%) Meraki
9 5 (6.94%) Red Hat
10 4 (5.56%) 3PAR
11 3 (4.17%) Commvault
11 3 (4.17%) HP
11 3 (4.17%) IBM
11 3 (4.17%) Juniper
11 3 (4.17%) Oracle
11 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
11 3 (4.17%) Symantec