Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 651 761
Rank change year-on-year +44 +110 +199
Permanent jobs citing NAS 77 237 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.11% 1.74% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 62 226 192
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £27,275
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £47,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +14.46% -17.00%
75th Percentile £68,502 £57,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £65,625 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +14.29% -9.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NAS.

Salary trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NAS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +43 73 £50,000 - 47
UK excluding London +91 60 £45,000 +2.27% 39
South East +97 32 £45,000 -5.26% 12
Work from Home +130 26 £45,000 - 29
North of England +45 22 £66,103 +50.23% 10
London +66 15 £72,500 +41.46% 16
Yorkshire +48 12 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West +21 7 £71,991 +121.51% 5
North East +47 3 £37,500 +7.14% 2
West Midlands +51 2 £37,500 -11.76% 3
Midlands +48 2 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Wales +39 2 £42,500 +6.25% 6
Scotland +121 1 £37,500 -11.76% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

NAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (24.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) IIS
3 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.60%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.60%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.30%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.16%) Azure
2 17 (22.08%) AWS
3 11 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 11 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.69%) GCP
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.90%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) IaaS
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.60%) PaaS
7 2 (2.60%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.30%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 71 (92.21%) SAN
2 27 (35.06%) DNS
3 24 (31.17%) DHCP
4 19 (24.68%) Firewall
5 11 (14.29%) VPN
6 10 (12.99%) VSAN
7 9 (11.69%) VLAN
8 7 (9.09%) iSCSI
8 7 (9.09%) WAN
9 5 (6.49%) LAN
10 4 (5.19%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (5.19%) FTP
10 4 (5.19%) IPv4
10 4 (5.19%) PBX
10 4 (5.19%) SMTP
10 4 (5.19%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (3.90%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
12 2 (2.60%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (2.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.60%) Big Data
3 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.30%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.30%) Power BI
4 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Banking
4 6 (7.79%) Games
4 6 (7.79%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (40.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (38.96%) Support Engineer
3 22 (28.57%) IT Engineer
4 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure Support
4 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 17 (22.08%) IT Support
5 16 (20.78%) IT Support Engineer
6 14 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Support Specialist
9 5 (6.49%) Administrator
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Storage Administrator
9 5 (6.49%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 5 (6.49%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) VMware Specialist
9 5 (6.49%) VMware Support Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) Middleware
2 3 (3.90%) LDAP
3 1 (1.30%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.27%) Clustering
2 11 (14.29%) Replication
3 7 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.60%) PKI
6 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.30%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (77.92%) Windows
2 28 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 22 (28.57%) Linux
4 8 (10.39%) Windows 10
5 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (5.19%) Android
6 4 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.90%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.60%) Solaris
9 1 (1.30%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (41.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 28 (36.36%) High Availability
4 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (23.38%) Virtual Environments
6 15 (19.48%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 14 (18.18%) IT Strategy
8 13 (16.88%) Kalman Filter
9 12 (15.58%) Mentoring
10 11 (14.29%) Change Control
10 11 (14.29%) Incident Management
11 9 (11.69%) Agile
11 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Management
11 9 (11.69%) Server Building
12 8 (10.39%) ITSM
12 8 (10.39%) Mobile Device Management
12 8 (10.39%) Task Automation
13 7 (9.09%) ITIL
13 7 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.99%) SQL
3 2 (2.60%) Java
3 2 (2.60%) Python
4 1 (1.30%) Bash
4 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (36.36%) Degree
2 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
3 17 (22.08%) DV Cleared
4 14 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (11.69%) Azure Certification
6 9 (11.69%) HND
7 8 (10.39%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (9.09%) CCNA
9 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (6.49%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
11 2 (2.60%) CCNP
11 2 (2.60%) HNC
12 1 (1.30%) A+ Certification
12 1 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (1.30%) HP ASE
12 1 (1.30%) MCSA
12 1 (1.30%) MCSE
12 1 (1.30%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.58%) GDPR
2 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.60%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 42 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (42.86%) Hyper-V
4 18 (23.38%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (15.58%) Docker
6 7 (9.09%) vSphere
7 5 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (6.49%) VMware NSX
8 3 (3.90%) KVM
9 2 (2.60%) Firmware
9 2 (2.60%) NFS
9 2 (2.60%) SRDF
9 2 (2.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (2.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.99%) Ansible
2 10 (12.99%) Terraform
3 7 (9.09%) Puppet
3 7 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 5 (6.49%) PowerCLI
4 5 (6.49%) Progress Chef
4 5 (6.49%) vMotion
4 5 (6.49%) vRealize
5 4 (5.19%) SCCM
5 4 (5.19%) WSUS
6 3 (3.90%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.30%) Grafana
8 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.30%) Nessus
8 1 (1.30%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.30%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.30%) OpenVAS
8 1 (1.30%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 56 (72.73%) VMware
2 51 (66.23%) Microsoft
3 20 (25.97%) Veeam
4 17 (22.08%) Cisco
5 10 (12.99%) EMC
5 10 (12.99%) Oracle
6 9 (11.69%) Citrix
6 9 (11.69%) Google
7 8 (10.39%) HP
8 7 (9.09%) Red Hat
9 6 (7.79%) NetApp
10 3 (3.90%) Dell
10 3 (3.90%) F5
10 3 (3.90%) Veritas
11 2 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.60%) Pure Storage
11 2 (2.60%) SAP
11 2 (2.60%) SonicWALL
11 2 (2.60%) Splunk
12 1 (1.30%) Commvault