NAS Job Trends in the South East

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring NAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 241 330
Rank change year-on-year -34 +89 +8
Permanent jobs citing NAS 21 36 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.42% 3.03% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 18 28 48
10th Percentile £32,750 - £36,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -4.21% +23.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £64,625
90th Percentile - £58,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +20.48%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,480 1,187 2,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.22% 15.46% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 796 753 1,878
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

NAS job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NAS

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing NAS in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for NAS in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Thames Valley +20 12 £67,500 - 4
Berkshire +14 8 £67,500 - 3
Kent -32 5 £33,500 -4.29% 1
Surrey -32 4 £50,000 +25.00%
Buckinghamshire - 4 £48,000 - 1
NAS
England

NAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) SAN
2 10 (47.62%) DNS
3 9 (42.86%) Firewall
4 8 (38.10%) NetScaler
4 8 (38.10%) Wireshark
5 3 (14.29%) VoIP
5 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (9.52%) DHCP
7 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.76%) VLAN
7 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (23.81%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) IT Support
2 7 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Applications Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Architect
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
5 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Design Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Regular Expression
1 4 (19.05%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) PKI
2 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (76.19%) Windows
1 16 (76.19%) Windows Server
2 12 (57.14%) Linux
3 8 (38.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Ubuntu
5 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Validation
2 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (19.05%) Antivirus Management
3 4 (19.05%) Asset Management
3 4 (19.05%) Change Control
3 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (19.05%) Informatics
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (19.05%) Pattern Matching
3 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) SIEM
3 4 (19.05%) Ticket Management
3 4 (19.05%) User Experience
4 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (4.76%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) DV Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (19.05%) GxP
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (42.86%) vSphere
3 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (14.29%) BitLocker
5 3 (14.29%) Terminal Services
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) Microsoft
2 17 (80.95%) VMware
3 12 (57.14%) Citrix
4 8 (38.10%) NetApp
5 5 (23.81%) Veeam
6 4 (19.05%) Facebook
6 4 (19.05%) Instagram
6 4 (19.05%) QNAP
6 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
6 4 (19.05%) Synology
7 3 (14.29%) Barracuda Networks
7 3 (14.29%) Sophos
8 1 (4.76%) Cisco
8 1 (4.76%) Commvault
8 1 (4.76%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (4.76%) Meraki
8 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.76%) Zerto