Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NAS over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 683 743 965
Rank change year-on-year +60 +222 -296
Permanent jobs citing NAS 233 225 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.72% 1.41% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 224 189 208
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -18.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £70,000 £71,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.41% -3.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NAS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,580 15,992 20,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.78% 15.46% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,473 8,159 11,855
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.17% +2.22%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NAS.

Salary trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NAS over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +102 218 £50,000 +21.21% 41
UK excluding London +12 173 £44,000 +14.29% 29
Work from Home +59 78 £47,500 +18.75% 11
North of England +68 59 £44,000 +10.00% 10
London +124 52 £52,000 -18.43% 11
South East +23 48 £47,500 +23.38% 11
Yorkshire +101 34 £57,500 +48.39% 3
South West -18 25 £50,000 +30.62% 2
North West +22 17 £32,500 -38.10% 7
East of England +26 16 £42,500 - 2
Midlands -8 14 £45,000 +38.46% 4
East Midlands -2 13 £45,000 -36.62% 3
North East -9 8 £35,000 +1.45%
Scotland - 8 £42,500 -
Wales +15 3 £40,000 -
West Midlands -14 1 £42,500 +30.77% 1

NAS
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 50 (21.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (14.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.15%) IIS
4 10 (4.29%) WordPress
5 5 (2.15%) CMS
6 4 (1.72%) CloudStack
7 3 (1.29%) Site Server
8 1 (0.43%) Apache
8 1 (0.43%) JOnAS
8 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (9.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 123 (52.79%) Microsoft 365
2 112 (48.07%) Azure
3 44 (18.88%) Entra ID
4 40 (17.17%) AWS
5 39 (16.74%) OneDrive
6 17 (7.30%) SaaS
7 16 (6.87%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.86%) Nutanix
9 7 (3.00%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.58%) PaaS
11 5 (2.15%) GCP
11 5 (2.15%) IaaS
11 5 (2.15%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.29%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.86%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.43%) Azure Storage
14 1 (0.43%) Slack
14 1 (0.43%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 178 (76.39%) SAN
2 110 (47.21%) Firewall
3 57 (24.46%) DNS
4 49 (21.03%) WAN
5 47 (20.17%) LAN
6 45 (19.31%) VPN
7 31 (13.30%) TCP/IP
7 31 (13.30%) VLAN
8 28 (12.02%) DHCP
8 28 (12.02%) VoIP
9 24 (10.30%) iSCSI
10 23 (9.87%) Wireless
11 21 (9.01%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (6.87%) SSL
13 14 (6.01%) Network Security
14 13 (5.58%) Broadband
15 12 (5.15%) Fibre Channel
16 10 (4.29%) Unified Communications
17 8 (3.43%) Internet
17 8 (3.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.00%) Power BI
3 5 (2.15%) MySQL
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.29%) GitLab
1 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.01%) Finance
4 12 (5.15%) Law
4 12 (5.15%) Manufacturing
5 11 (4.72%) Games
6 4 (1.72%) Aviation
6 4 (1.72%) Avionics
6 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.72%) Military
6 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.86%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.86%) Retail
9 1 (0.43%) Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Electronics
9 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (27.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (12.88%) IT Engineer
3 25 (10.73%) Support Engineer
4 23 (9.87%) Administrator
4 23 (9.87%) Senior
5 20 (8.58%) IT Support
6 18 (7.73%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (7.73%) Systems Administrator
7 17 (7.30%) IT Manager
7 17 (7.30%) Network Engineer
8 15 (6.44%) Consultant
8 15 (6.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 15 (6.44%) Lead
9 13 (5.58%) IT Administrator
9 13 (5.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.15%) IT Technician
11 11 (4.72%) IT Consultant
12 9 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.43%) IT Systems Administrator
13 8 (3.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.01%) LAMP
2 6 (2.58%) HTML
2 6 (2.58%) LDAP
3 5 (2.15%) .NET
4 4 (1.72%) EJB
5 3 (1.29%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.29%) CSS
5 3 (1.29%) jQuery
6 2 (0.86%) SAML
6 2 (0.86%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.45%) Replication
2 34 (14.59%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.87%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.01%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.72%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.43%) PKI
8 7 (3.00%) Driving Licence
8 7 (3.00%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.58%) Clustering
9 6 (2.58%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (2.15%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.15%) PMI
11 4 (1.72%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.72%) Thin Client
12 3 (1.29%) CCTV
12 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.29%) FPGA
12 3 (1.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 182 (78.11%) Windows
2 133 (57.08%) Windows Server
3 92 (39.48%) Linux
4 26 (11.16%) Windows Server 2012
5 21 (9.01%) Windows 10
6 18 (7.73%) VMS
6 18 (7.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (6.87%) Mac OS
7 16 (6.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (4.72%) Ubuntu
9 6 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.72%) Unix
11 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.29%) CentOS
11 3 (1.29%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.86%) Android
13 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 66 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (17.60%) Migration
4 30 (12.88%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (12.02%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (10.30%) ITIL
8 23 (9.87%) Preventative Maintenance
9 22 (9.44%) Storage Management
10 20 (8.58%) Business Continuity
10 20 (8.58%) Computer Science
10 20 (8.58%) Mentoring
11 19 (8.15%) Asset Management
11 19 (8.15%) Infrastructure Management
12 18 (7.73%) Project Delivery
12 18 (7.73%) Service Delivery
13 17 (7.30%) Project Management
14 16 (6.87%) Customer Service
14 16 (6.87%) Data Protection
15 15 (6.44%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (16.74%) PowerShell
2 20 (8.58%) Bash
3 16 (6.87%) SQL
4 13 (5.58%) Python
5 3 (1.29%) C#
5 3 (1.29%) Java
5 3 (1.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (17.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 39 (16.74%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (14.59%) MCSE
4 30 (12.88%) CCNA
5 28 (12.02%) Degree
6 19 (8.15%) Security Cleared
7 18 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (5.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (4.72%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.00%) MCSA
11 6 (2.58%) Citrix Certification
11 6 (2.58%) SC Cleared
12 5 (2.15%) CCNP
12 5 (2.15%) JNCIA
12 5 (2.15%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.15%) VCAP
13 4 (1.72%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (1.72%) MCP
14 2 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.16%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (6.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.01%) SLA
4 11 (4.72%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.72%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) NCSC
6 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 145 (62.23%) Active Directory
2 114 (48.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 77 (33.05%) Hyper-V
4 39 (16.74%) VMware ESXi
5 37 (15.88%) vSphere
6 11 (4.72%) Docker
7 10 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.43%) Firmware
9 7 (3.00%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (2.15%) VMware NSX
11 3 (1.29%) pfSense
12 2 (0.86%) NFS
12 2 (0.86%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.43%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 41 (17.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (12.45%) SCCM
3 25 (10.73%) vCenter Server
4 20 (8.58%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.86%) WSUS
5 9 (3.86%) ZABBIX
6 8 (3.43%) FortiGate
7 6 (2.58%) Nagios
8 4 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.72%) Backup Exec
8 4 (1.72%) cPanel
8 4 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 4 (1.72%) Plesk
9 3 (1.29%) Ansible
10 2 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 174 (74.68%) VMware
2 125 (53.65%) Microsoft
3 53 (22.75%) Veeam
4 34 (14.59%) Cisco
5 20 (8.58%) HP
6 17 (7.30%) Aruba
6 17 (7.30%) NetApp
7 16 (6.87%) Dell
7 16 (6.87%) Google
8 14 (6.01%) Apple
8 14 (6.01%) Synology
9 13 (5.58%) Meraki
9 13 (5.58%) Mitel
10 11 (4.72%) Palo Alto
11 10 (4.29%) ProCurve
11 10 (4.29%) Zerto
12 8 (3.43%) ESET
12 8 (3.43%) Sophos
13 7 (3.00%) Fortinet
14 6 (2.58%) Commvault