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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 596 612
Rank change year-on-year +82 +16 +81
Permanent jobs citing NAS 65 168 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.00% 1.72% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 55 162 131
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £44,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +15.58% -9.41%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £65,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £48,250 £47,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year +1.58% +15.85% -18.00%

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 6,508 9,744 10,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.69% 13.75% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,176 7,062 4,782
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,875 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% -2.50% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 14 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 14 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 +89 36 £45,500 -4.21% 28
North of England +16 22 £66,103 +32.21% 10
Yorkshire +52 12 £60,000 - 1
North West -1 8 £71,991 +121.51% 8
Midlands +50 2 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Wales +40 2 £42,500 +6.25% 3
North East +38 2 £37,500 +7.14% 1
West Midlands - 2 £37,500 - 4
Scotland +112 1 £37,500 -11.76% 5
South West +86 1 £55,000 +29.41% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
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 20 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.62%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.08%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.08%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.54%) IIS
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.77%) Azure
2 18 (27.69%) AWS
3 8 (12.31%) GCP
4 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.15%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.08%) GitHub
6 2 (3.08%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (92.31%) SAN
2 20 (30.77%) DNS
3 18 (27.69%) DHCP
4 15 (23.08%) Firewall
5 11 (16.92%) VSAN
6 8 (12.31%) VPN
7 7 (10.77%) iSCSI
8 3 (4.62%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (4.62%) LAN
8 3 (4.62%) WAN
9 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.08%) FCoE
9 2 (3.08%) IP Telephony
9 2 (3.08%) Multicast
9 2 (3.08%) SNMP
9 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
9 2 (3.08%) VLAN
10 1 (1.54%) VoIP
10 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Big Data
3 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.54%) Power BI
4 1 (1.54%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.23%) Games
5 5 (7.69%) Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (47.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (44.62%) Support Engineer
3 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure Support
3 19 (29.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 19 (29.23%) IT Engineer
4 16 (24.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (21.54%) IT Support
5 14 (21.54%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Support Specialist
6 6 (9.23%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 6 (9.23%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (9.23%) VMware Support Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Administrator
7 5 (7.69%) Storage Administrator
8 4 (6.15%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) Middleware
2 2 (3.08%) LDAP
3 1 (1.54%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.54%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (33.85%) Clustering
2 9 (13.85%) Replication
3 6 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.08%) Blackberry
4 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (76.92%) Windows
2 22 (33.85%) Windows Server
3 19 (29.23%) Linux
4 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.08%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (46.15%) High Availability
3 27 (41.54%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (36.92%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (32.31%) Virtual Environments
6 15 (23.08%) Computer Science
6 15 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
7 11 (16.92%) IT Strategy
7 11 (16.92%) Server Building
8 9 (13.85%) Antivirus Management
8 9 (13.85%) Mentoring
8 9 (13.85%) Web Filtering
9 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.31%) Mobile Device Management
9 8 (12.31%) Patch Management
9 8 (12.31%) Storage Management
9 8 (12.31%) Task Automation
10 7 (10.77%) Change Control
10 7 (10.77%) Security Hardening
10 7 (10.77%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.08%) PowerShell
2 10 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (3.08%) Java
3 2 (3.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (36.92%) Degree
2 23 (35.38%) Security Cleared
3 18 (27.69%) DV Cleared
4 16 (24.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (16.92%) HND
6 9 (13.85%) Azure Certification
6 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
9 3 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (3.08%) CCNA
10 2 (3.08%) HNC
11 1 (1.54%) CCNP
11 1 (1.54%) HP ASE
11 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.54%) MCSA
11 1 (1.54%) MCSE
11 1 (1.54%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) GDPR
2 3 (4.62%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (58.46%) Active Directory
3 24 (36.92%) Hyper-V
4 12 (18.46%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (15.38%) Docker
6 7 (10.77%) vSphere
7 5 (7.69%) VMware NSX
8 3 (4.62%) KVM
8 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (3.08%) Firmware
9 2 (3.08%) NFS
9 2 (3.08%) SRDF
9 2 (3.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (3.08%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.38%) Ansible
3 8 (12.31%) Puppet
4 7 (10.77%) vCenter Server
5 6 (9.23%) PowerCLI
5 6 (9.23%) Terraform
5 6 (9.23%) vMotion
5 6 (9.23%) vRealize
6 5 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.62%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.54%) Nessus
9 1 (1.54%) NetApp OnCommand
9 1 (1.54%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.54%) OpenVAS
9 1 (1.54%) QRadar
9 1 (1.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (81.54%) VMware
2 45 (69.23%) Microsoft
3 18 (27.69%) Veeam
4 10 (15.38%) Cisco
5 9 (13.85%) Google
6 8 (12.31%) HP
6 8 (12.31%) Oracle
7 6 (9.23%) Citrix
7 6 (9.23%) EMC
8 4 (6.15%) NetApp
8 4 (6.15%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.08%) F5
9 2 (3.08%) McAfee
9 2 (3.08%) Sophos
10 1 (1.54%) Acronis
10 1 (1.54%) Commvault
10 1 (1.54%) ESET
10 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.54%) Splunk
10 1 (1.54%) Veritas