NAS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring NAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NAS over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 562 573
Rank change year-on-year +41 +11 +137
Permanent jobs citing NAS 73 172 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.80% 1.86% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 57 157 104
10th Percentile £32,300 £32,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +22.45% -8.13%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £44,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,850
UK median annual salary £46,000 £48,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.64% +21.88% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,130 9,251 9,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.10% 12.67% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,683 6,406 4,490
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £44,309 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.42% -1.54% -5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £62,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £33,000 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -30.53% -7.77% -1.90%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the UK excluding London

NAS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NAS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for NAS in the UK excluding London

NAS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK excluding London

NAS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
South East +47 40 £45,000 -5.26% 16
North of England +24 18 £37,500 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire +16 9 £52,500 -16.00% 2
North West +2 7 £62,205 +91.40% 2
Scotland +90 4 £37,500 -11.76% 1
South West +73 4 £31,000 -39.51% 5
Midlands +62 4 £50,000 +11.11% 7
West Midlands - 4 £50,000 - 6
North East +36 2 £37,500 -14.77% 1
Wales +29 2 £42,500 +6.25%
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 - 1
NAS
UK

NAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (38.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.11%) JOnAS
4 2 (2.74%) Confluence
5 1 (1.37%) IIS
5 1 (1.37%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.68%) Azure
2 18 (24.66%) AWS
3 16 (21.92%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.85%) GCP
6 4 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.74%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.37%) GitHub
8 1 (1.37%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.37%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 65 (89.04%) SAN
2 24 (32.88%) Firewall
3 19 (26.03%) DNS
4 18 (24.66%) DHCP
5 9 (12.33%) iSCSI
5 9 (12.33%) VSAN
6 8 (10.96%) VLAN
7 7 (9.59%) VPN
8 6 (8.22%) TCP/IP
9 5 (6.85%) IP Telephony
9 5 (6.85%) SNMP
9 5 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (4.11%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (4.11%) Internet
11 2 (2.74%) LAN
11 2 (2.74%) WAN
12 1 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (1.37%) Multicast
12 1 (1.37%) VoIP
12 1 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) Big Data
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.37%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.96%) Telecoms
3 7 (9.59%) Finance
3 7 (9.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.22%) Games
5 5 (6.85%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (49.32%) Support Engineer
2 35 (47.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (32.88%) IT Engineer
4 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure Support
4 22 (30.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 21 (28.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (27.40%) IT Support
7 17 (23.29%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Support Specialist
9 6 (8.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 6 (8.22%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (8.22%) VMware Specialist
9 6 (8.22%) VMware Support Engineer
10 5 (6.85%) Administrator
11 4 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (5.48%) Senior
12 3 (4.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) Middleware
2 1 (1.37%) LAMP
2 1 (1.37%) LDAP
2 1 (1.37%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.37%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Clustering
2 11 (15.07%) Replication
3 5 (6.85%) Blackberry
4 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (75.34%) Windows
2 23 (31.51%) Windows Server
3 20 (27.40%) Linux
4 6 (8.22%) Windows 10
5 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.11%) VMS
7 3 (4.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.37%) Solaris
9 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (45.21%) High Availability
3 29 (39.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 29 (39.73%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (34.25%) Virtual Environments
5 18 (24.66%) Kalman Filter
6 17 (23.29%) Computer Science
7 14 (19.18%) Antivirus Management
7 14 (19.18%) IT Strategy
8 13 (17.81%) Server Building
9 12 (16.44%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (16.44%) Web Filtering
10 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (15.07%) Patch Management
11 10 (13.70%) Incident Management
11 10 (13.70%) Storage Management
12 9 (12.33%) Mobile Device Management
13 8 (10.96%) Task Automation
13 8 (10.96%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 7 (9.59%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 35 (47.95%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.70%) SQL
3 4 (5.48%) Python
4 2 (2.74%) Bash
5 1 (1.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Degree
2 27 (36.99%) Security Cleared
3 18 (24.66%) DV Cleared
4 14 (19.18%) HND
4 14 (19.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (12.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Certification
9 4 (5.48%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (4.11%) CCNA
11 2 (2.74%) HNC
11 2 (2.74%) MCSE
12 1 (1.37%) CCNP
12 1 (1.37%) HP ASE
12 1 (1.37%) MCSA
12 1 (1.37%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) GDPR
2 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (68.49%) Active Directory
2 48 (65.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (34.25%) Hyper-V
4 13 (17.81%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (13.70%) Docker
5 10 (13.70%) vSphere
6 6 (8.22%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (4.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.74%) Firmware
9 1 (1.37%) KVM
9 1 (1.37%) NFS
9 1 (1.37%) SRDF
9 1 (1.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (1.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (13.70%) Ansible
2 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.33%) vCenter Server
4 7 (9.59%) Puppet
5 6 (8.22%) PowerCLI
5 6 (8.22%) vMotion
5 6 (8.22%) vRealize
6 4 (5.48%) Terraform
7 3 (4.11%) PaperCut
7 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.37%) Nessus
8 1 (1.37%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.37%) OpenVAS
8 1 (1.37%) Podman
8 1 (1.37%) QRadar
8 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (82.19%) Microsoft
2 58 (79.45%) VMware
3 20 (27.40%) Veeam
4 15 (20.55%) Cisco
5 7 (9.59%) HP
6 6 (8.22%) Citrix
6 6 (8.22%) Google
7 5 (6.85%) McAfee
7 5 (6.85%) NetApp
7 5 (6.85%) Oracle
8 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
8 4 (5.48%) Sophos
9 3 (4.11%) arcserve
9 3 (4.11%) Datto
9 3 (4.11%) ESET
9 3 (4.11%) Nimsoft
9 3 (4.11%) Sage
9 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.11%) Splunk
10 2 (2.74%) Nimble Storage