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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 599 625
Rank change year-on-year +93 +26 +75
Permanent jobs citing NAS 71 172 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.01% 1.75% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 56 164 117
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £45,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +16.88% -9.41%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £65,000 £62,700
UK median annual salary £46,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -7.00% +25.00% -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 7,027 9,853 10,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.84% 13.21% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,301 7,110 4,617
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,000 £58,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +78 40 £45,000 -5.26% 110
North of England +16 23 £62,205 +24.41% 87
Yorkshire +36 12 £60,000 - 37
North West +2 9 £71,991 +121.51% 40
Scotland +113 3 £37,500 -11.76% 20
Wales +46 2 £42,500 +6.25% 11
North East +42 2 £37,500 +7.14% 10
South West +83 1 £55,000 +29.41% 47
Midlands +74 1 £37,500 -16.67% 76
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 40
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 26 (36.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.82%) JOnAS
3 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.41%) IIS
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.89%) Azure
2 19 (26.76%) AWS
3 8 (11.27%) GCP
3 8 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.45%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.63%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.82%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 64 (90.14%) SAN
2 20 (28.17%) DNS
3 18 (25.35%) DHCP
3 18 (25.35%) Firewall
4 11 (15.49%) VSAN
5 8 (11.27%) iSCSI
6 7 (9.86%) VPN
7 5 (7.04%) IP Telephony
7 5 (7.04%) SNMP
8 4 (5.63%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.23%) LAN
9 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
9 3 (4.23%) VLAN
9 3 (4.23%) WAN
10 2 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (2.82%) FCoE
10 2 (2.82%) Internet
10 2 (2.82%) Multicast
11 1 (1.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.82%) Big Data
3 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.41%) MySQL
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.41%) Power BI
4 1 (1.41%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.82%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Finance
3 7 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.45%) Games
5 5 (7.04%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (49.30%) Support Engineer
2 33 (46.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (30.99%) Infrastructure Support
3 22 (30.99%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 22 (30.99%) IT Engineer
4 19 (26.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (23.94%) IT Support
5 17 (23.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Support Specialist
6 6 (8.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 6 (8.45%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (8.45%) VMware Support Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Administrator
7 5 (7.04%) Storage Administrator
8 4 (5.63%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) Middleware
2 2 (2.82%) LDAP
3 1 (1.41%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.41%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.99%) Clustering
2 11 (15.49%) Replication
3 6 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.04%) Blackberry
5 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (76.06%) Windows
2 22 (30.99%) Linux
3 21 (29.58%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.04%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.82%) Solaris
6 2 (2.82%) VMS
6 2 (2.82%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) High Availability
1 33 (46.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (40.85%) Disaster Recovery
3 26 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (33.80%) Virtual Environments
5 18 (25.35%) Computer Science
5 18 (25.35%) Kalman Filter
6 14 (19.72%) IT Strategy
6 14 (19.72%) Server Building
7 13 (18.31%) Antivirus Management
8 12 (16.90%) Storage Management
8 12 (16.90%) Web Filtering
9 11 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (15.49%) Patch Management
10 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 9 (12.68%) Mobile Device Management
11 8 (11.27%) Task Automation
12 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (9.86%) Security Hardening
12 7 (9.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) PowerShell
2 11 (15.49%) SQL
3 2 (2.82%) Java
3 2 (2.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (39.44%) Degree
2 26 (36.62%) Security Cleared
3 18 (25.35%) DV Cleared
4 16 (22.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (19.72%) HND
6 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (12.68%) Azure Certification
7 9 (12.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
9 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.82%) CCNA
10 2 (2.82%) HNC
11 1 (1.41%) CCNP
11 1 (1.41%) HP ASE
11 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.41%) MCSA
11 1 (1.41%) MCSE
11 1 (1.41%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) GDPR
2 3 (4.23%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (61.97%) Active Directory
2 43 (60.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (36.62%) Hyper-V
4 12 (16.90%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (14.08%) Docker
6 7 (9.86%) vSphere
7 5 (7.04%) VMware NSX
8 3 (4.23%) KVM
8 3 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.82%) Firmware
9 2 (2.82%) NFS
9 2 (2.82%) SRDF
9 2 (2.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (2.82%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.08%) Ansible
3 8 (11.27%) Puppet
4 7 (9.86%) vCenter Server
5 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (8.45%) PowerCLI
5 6 (8.45%) Terraform
5 6 (8.45%) vMotion
5 6 (8.45%) vRealize
6 5 (7.04%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.23%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.41%) Nessus
8 1 (1.41%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.41%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.41%) OpenVAS
8 1 (1.41%) QRadar
8 1 (1.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (78.87%) VMware
2 52 (73.24%) Microsoft
3 20 (28.17%) Veeam
4 10 (14.08%) Cisco
5 9 (12.68%) Google
6 8 (11.27%) Oracle
7 7 (9.86%) HP
8 6 (8.45%) Citrix
8 6 (8.45%) EMC
9 5 (7.04%) McAfee
10 4 (5.63%) NetApp
10 4 (5.63%) Red Hat
11 3 (4.23%) Sophos
12 2 (2.82%) arcserve
12 2 (2.82%) ESET
12 2 (2.82%) F5
12 2 (2.82%) Nimsoft
12 2 (2.82%) Sage
12 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
13 1 (1.41%) Veritas