NAS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 494 469
Rank change year-on-year -146 -25 +52
Permanent jobs citing NAS 40 44 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.69% 0.78% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 22 28 93
10th Percentile £32,975 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £32,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,750 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.30% -13.43% +35.00%
75th Percentile £65,313 £57,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £58,750 £65,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% +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 5,770 5,624 6,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.66% 16.21% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,614 2,960 3,031
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,087 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,968 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £34,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -29.90% +7.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £61,750
90th Percentile £76,075 £67,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £39,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +28.21% -25.71% +2.94%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NAS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

NAS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

NAS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing NAS

NAS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

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 6 October 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
South East -55 13 £48,750 -9.30% 16
South West -73 8 £62,500 +101.61% 3
East of England - 6 £42,250 - 6
North of England -63 5 £52,500 +59.09% 15
Wales -63 4 £50,871 +19.70%
Yorkshire - 4 £55,000 - 4
Scotland -2 2 - - 6
West Midlands -36 2 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Midlands -58 2 £65,000 +30.00% 2
North East - 1 £35,000 - 4
NAS
UK

NAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (12.50%) IIS
3 4 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.50%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.50%) Cohesity
5 3 (7.50%) OneDrive
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (80.00%) SAN
2 19 (47.50%) DNS
3 18 (45.00%) Firewall
4 15 (37.50%) DHCP
5 10 (25.00%) WAN
6 8 (20.00%) LAN
6 8 (20.00%) VLAN
7 7 (17.50%) VPN
8 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
9 5 (12.50%) Wireless
10 4 (10.00%) CHAP
10 4 (10.00%) NetScaler
10 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (10.00%) Wireshark
11 3 (7.50%) Network Security
11 3 (7.50%) VoIP
12 2 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (5.00%) HTTPS
12 2 (5.00%) IP Telephony
12 2 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
General
1 6 (15.00%) Aerospace
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Aviation
3 4 (10.00%) Aeronautics
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (10.00%) Military
4 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Police
5 1 (2.50%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) IT Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Applications Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (7.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Support
5 3 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Platform Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Head of IT
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Senior IT Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Server Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) ModSecurity
1 3 (7.50%) Regular Expression
1 3 (7.50%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Replication
2 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (10.00%) PKI
5 3 (7.50%) Clustering
5 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (7.50%) Private Cloud
5 3 (7.50%) Social Media
6 2 (5.00%) CCTV
6 2 (5.00%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 22 (55.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (27.50%) Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.50%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 20 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (20.00%) High Availability
2 8 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 7 (17.50%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (15.00%) ITIL
4 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.00%) Validation
5 5 (12.50%) ITSM
5 5 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 5 (12.50%) SIEM
6 4 (10.00%) Change Control
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) Bash
2 2 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) DV Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (5.00%) CCNA
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) CCNP
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.50%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (2.50%) VCAP
5 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.00%) JSP 440
2 3 (7.50%) SLA
3 2 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (42.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (15.00%) vSphere
5 4 (10.00%) Firmware
5 4 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (7.50%) KVM
6 3 (7.50%) NFS
6 3 (7.50%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
8 1 (2.50%) Terminal Services
8 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) VxRail
2 3 (7.50%) WSUS
3 1 (2.50%) Avamar
3 1 (2.50%) Proxmox
3 1 (2.50%) SCCM
3 1 (2.50%) SCOM
3 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (70.00%) VMware
2 19 (47.50%) Microsoft
3 13 (32.50%) Veeam
4 12 (30.00%) Cisco
5 11 (27.50%) NetApp
6 8 (20.00%) Meraki
7 6 (15.00%) Dell
7 6 (15.00%) Zerto
8 5 (12.50%) Citrix
8 5 (12.50%) Commvault
9 4 (10.00%) HP
10 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
10 3 (7.50%) Tenable
11 2 (5.00%) Apple
11 2 (5.00%) Facebook
11 2 (5.00%) Instagram
11 2 (5.00%) QNAP
11 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
11 2 (5.00%) Sophos
11 2 (5.00%) Splunk