Storage Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Storage Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Storage Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 625 726 914
Rank change year-on-year +101 +188 -210
Permanent jobs citing Storage Management 268 253 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.27% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 148 158 225
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,434
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +8.70% +26.91%
75th Percentile £63,750 £82,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,750 £96,625 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £48,615 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.79% -7.40% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Storage Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Storage Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Storage Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Storage Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Storage Management in the UK

Storage Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Storage Management 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 +106 233 £51,000 -24.44% 73
UK excluding London +61 217 £49,000 +0.79% 57
Work from Home +149 125 £54,500 -27.33% 29
South East +39 57 £59,000 +39.64% 19
North of England +52 50 £40,000 -27.27% 11
South West +13 42 £37,500 -31.82% 2
London +59 39 £60,500 -19.33% 21
Midlands +3 34 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North West +17 30 £35,000 -53.33% 5
East Midlands -3 22 £50,000 +8.42% 3
Yorkshire +81 15 £42,500 -7.61% 3
West Midlands +8 12 £105,000 +50.00% 7
Scotland -73 11 - - 4
East of England -4 10 £47,500 +2.15% 12
Wales +12 8 £40,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +31 5 - - 2
North East -2 5 £42,500 -30.61% 3

Storage Management
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 55 (20.52%) Apache
2 12 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.49%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.75%) WordPress
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (5.60%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.75%) InDesign
3 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 78 (29.10%) Azure
2 62 (23.13%) Amazon S3
3 30 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (10.07%) IaaS
5 24 (8.96%) AWS
6 16 (5.97%) GCP
7 15 (5.60%) Nutanix
8 14 (5.22%) OCI
8 14 (5.22%) PaaS
8 14 (5.22%) SaaS
9 11 (4.10%) Power Platform
10 10 (3.73%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.87%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 3 (1.12%) Mimecast
15 2 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (0.75%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (40.30%) Firewall
2 68 (25.37%) SAN
3 66 (24.63%) VPN
4 57 (21.27%) Internet
5 56 (20.90%) IPsec
6 54 (20.15%) SNMP
7 34 (12.69%) DNS
8 21 (7.84%) NAS
9 20 (7.46%) DHCP
10 17 (6.34%) LAN
11 14 (5.22%) WAN
12 10 (3.73%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (2.61%) VLAN
14 6 (2.24%) MPLS
14 6 (2.24%) TCP/IP
14 6 (2.24%) WLAN
15 4 (1.49%) VoIP
16 3 (1.12%) HTTP
16 3 (1.12%) SD-WAN
17 2 (0.75%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (32.46%) MongoDB
2 55 (20.52%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (7.46%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.48%) Big Data
5 9 (3.36%) Power BI
6 5 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.49%) Metadata
7 4 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.37%) OrientDB
10 1 (0.37%) Power Query
10 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (2.24%) Git
2 2 (0.75%) JIRA
2 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (44.03%) Finance
2 63 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (3.36%) Banking
4 9 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.99%) Advertising
5 8 (2.99%) Law
5 8 (2.99%) Marketing
6 6 (2.24%) Legal
6 6 (2.24%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Automotive
9 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Games
9 2 (0.75%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.75%) Publishing
9 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Aviation
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (25.37%) Consultant
2 62 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 54 (20.15%) NetApp Consultant
4 37 (13.81%) DBA
5 36 (13.43%) Administrator
6 29 (10.82%) DV Cleared DBA
7 25 (9.33%) IT Engineer
8 20 (7.46%) Senior
9 18 (6.72%) IT Manager
9 18 (6.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (6.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.60%) Architect
11 15 (5.60%) Storage Engineer
12 13 (4.85%) IT Support
13 12 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (4.48%) Support Engineer
14 10 (3.73%) IT Support Engineer
14 10 (3.73%) Network Engineer
14 10 (3.73%) Storage Specialist
15 8 (2.99%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (20.52%) YAML
2 54 (20.15%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (2.99%) Middleware
4 7 (2.61%) REST
4 7 (2.61%) SOAP
5 6 (2.24%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.75%) EDI
6 2 (0.75%) LAMP
6 2 (0.75%) V-Ray
6 2 (0.75%) Web Services
7 1 (0.37%) .NET
7 1 (0.37%) J2EE
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 97 (36.19%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.21%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.22%) IoT
4 12 (4.48%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.73%) Replication
7 7 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.49%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.49%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.12%) Social Media
9 3 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.75%) Clustering
10 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.75%) PKI
11 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.37%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 162 (60.45%) Windows
2 135 (50.37%) Linux
3 55 (20.52%) Data ONTAP
4 49 (18.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 48 (17.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 44 (16.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (14.18%) Windows Server
8 32 (11.94%) CentOS
9 16 (5.97%) Windows 10
10 15 (5.60%) Ubuntu
11 12 (4.48%) Unix
11 12 (4.48%) Windows XP
12 10 (3.73%) Solaris
13 3 (1.12%) zOS
14 1 (0.37%) AIX
14 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (46.27%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (33.58%) Project Management
3 81 (30.22%) Actionable Insight
4 66 (24.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 59 (22.01%) Infrastructure Management
6 55 (20.52%) Project Planning
7 54 (20.15%) Release Management
8 48 (17.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 45 (16.79%) Performance Monitoring
10 43 (16.04%) Mentoring
11 37 (13.81%) Server Management
12 36 (13.43%) ITIL
13 35 (13.06%) User Experience
14 32 (11.94%) Capacity Management
14 32 (11.94%) Database Tuning
15 31 (11.57%) Agile
16 29 (10.82%) Computer Science
17 27 (10.07%) DevOps
18 24 (8.96%) Decision-Making
19 21 (7.84%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 74 (27.61%) Python
2 55 (20.52%) SQL
3 51 (19.03%) Bash
4 46 (17.16%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.60%) Perl
6 5 (1.87%) Bicep
7 3 (1.12%) JCL
7 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) AWK
8 1 (0.37%) Bourne shell
8 1 (0.37%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) C++
8 1 (0.37%) Formula Language
8 1 (0.37%) Korn
8 1 (0.37%) ProC
8 1 (0.37%) REXX
8 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (23.13%) Degree
2 55 (20.52%) Security Cleared
3 41 (15.30%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.34%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.60%) CCNA
7 14 (5.22%) Azure Certification
7 14 (5.22%) CCNP
8 12 (4.48%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.24%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.12%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.75%) CCIE
12 2 (0.75%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (0.75%) MCSE
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.75%) OCP
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.99%) SLA
3 4 (1.49%) NIST
4 3 (1.12%) GDPR
4 3 (1.12%) QA
5 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 106 (39.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (24.63%) Docker
3 53 (19.78%) Active Directory
4 25 (9.33%) Hyper-V
5 21 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (7.09%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.61%) NFS
7 7 (2.61%) SRDF
8 5 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 2 (0.75%) pfSense
11 2 (0.75%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (25.37%) vCenter Server
2 62 (23.13%) Ansible
3 59 (22.01%) Kubernetes
4 54 (20.15%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.84%) SCCM
6 13 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (4.85%) NetBackup
6 13 (4.85%) WSUS
7 12 (4.48%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (4.48%) SCOM
8 10 (3.73%) Terraform
9 4 (1.49%) Grafana
9 4 (1.49%) Nagios
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.75%) Backup Exec
11 2 (0.75%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle Statspack
11 2 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 120 (44.78%) VMware
2 107 (39.93%) Microsoft
3 87 (32.46%) Red Hat
4 67 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 58 (21.64%) NetApp
6 54 (20.15%) SolidFire
7 48 (17.91%) Oracle
8 30 (11.19%) Cisco
9 23 (8.58%) EMC
10 18 (6.72%) Dell
11 17 (6.34%) Veeam
12 16 (5.97%) HP
13 15 (5.60%) IBM
14 12 (4.48%) 3PAR
14 12 (4.48%) Extreme Networks
14 12 (4.48%) Juniper
14 12 (4.48%) Symantec
15 10 (3.73%) Brocade
16 8 (2.99%) Sophos
17 6 (2.24%) ESET