NAS Job Trends in the North of England

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring NAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 258 269
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +108
Permanent jobs citing NAS 2 23 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.019% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.077% 2.38% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 19
10th Percentile - £37,150 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £54,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +54.29% -19.82%
75th Percentile £42,500 £62,500 £40,625
90th Percentile - £65,302 £57,500
England median annual salary £48,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +19.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

NAS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,610 966 1,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.22% 10.62% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 756 536 957
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,413 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £33,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £43,750 £60,000 £61,949
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NAS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

NAS job vacancy trend in the North of England

NAS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NAS

NAS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
North West +16 2 £40,000 -35.70%
NAS
England

NAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering