Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring NAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 712 596 652
Rank change year-on-year -116 +56 +32
Permanent jobs citing NAS 47 86 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 1.20% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 35 68 201
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68,125 £61,940 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £41,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +22.45%

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 7,304 7,159 12,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.60% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,699 4,133 8,406
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -9.47% -7.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,500 £44,500
% change year-on-year +10.39% -13.48% -1.11%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NAS job vacancy trend in the UK

NAS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NAS

NAS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NAS over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 12 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 18 July 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
England -120 47 £52,500 +13.51% 13
UK excluding London -110 39 £52,500 +27.27% 12
South East -42 21 £50,000 +11.11% 2
London -22 8 £58,750 -20.34% 2
North of England -58 8 £57,500 +53.33% 6
Yorkshire -35 7 £57,500 +9.52% 1
Work from Home -22 5 £66,750 +66.88% 4
South West -58 4 £62,500 +101.61%
East of England - 4 £32,500 - 2
West Midlands -23 2 £60,750 +21.50% 1
Midlands -34 2 £60,750 +21.50% 1
North West -4 1 - - 4

NAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (17.02%) IIS
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (8.51%) SAS
4 2 (4.26%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (48.94%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (23.40%) AWS
4 6 (12.77%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.38%) Mimecast
5 3 (6.38%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.26%) IaaS
6 2 (4.26%) PaaS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (68.09%) SAN
2 24 (51.06%) DNS
3 17 (36.17%) Firewall
4 16 (34.04%) DHCP
5 11 (23.40%) WAN
6 10 (21.28%) LAN
7 9 (19.15%) TCP/IP
8 8 (17.02%) NetScaler
8 8 (17.02%) Wireshark
9 6 (12.77%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (8.51%) Kerberos
10 4 (8.51%) VoIP
10 4 (8.51%) VPN
11 3 (6.38%) VLAN
12 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
12 2 (4.26%) Wireless
13 1 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
13 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Git
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) IT Support
3 8 (17.02%) Senior
4 7 (14.89%) IT Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Support Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Applications Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Lead
6 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Administrator
7 3 (6.38%) Applications Support
7 3 (6.38%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.26%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Design Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Regular Expression
1 4 (8.51%) XMPP
2 1 (2.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) PKI
2 7 (14.89%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (12.77%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (10.64%) Replication
5 4 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
5 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.26%) Clustering
7 1 (2.13%) CCTV
7 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (85.11%) Windows
2 37 (78.72%) Windows Server
3 20 (42.55%) Linux
4 9 (19.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
6 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
6 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (6.38%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Disaster Recovery
1 18 (38.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (23.40%) Service Delivery
4 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.15%) Validation
5 7 (14.89%) Antivirus Management
5 7 (14.89%) Roadmaps
5 7 (14.89%) Technology Roadmap
6 6 (12.77%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (12.77%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (10.64%) Analytics
7 5 (10.64%) Change Control
7 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.64%) DevOps
7 5 (10.64%) High Availability
7 5 (10.64%) Server Management
7 5 (10.64%) SIEM
7 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.77%) Bash
3 2 (4.26%) Bicep
3 2 (4.26%) Python
4 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.13%) CCNA
6 1 (2.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (2.13%) RHCE
6 1 (2.13%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.13%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (8.51%) GxP
1 4 (8.51%) QA
1 4 (8.51%) SLA
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (74.47%) Active Directory
2 19 (40.43%) Hyper-V
2 19 (40.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (23.40%) vSphere
4 5 (10.64%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.38%) BitLocker
5 3 (6.38%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.13%) Docker
6 1 (2.13%) KVM
6 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (14.89%) Ansible
2 6 (12.77%) VxRail
2 6 (12.77%) WSUS
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.26%) Terraform
4 2 (4.26%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.13%) Avamar
5 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.13%) Nagios
5 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (70.21%) Microsoft
1 33 (70.21%) VMware
2 17 (36.17%) Veeam
3 13 (27.66%) Citrix
4 12 (25.53%) Meraki
5 11 (23.40%) Cisco
5 11 (23.40%) Commvault
6 10 (21.28%) NetApp
6 10 (21.28%) Zerto
7 8 (17.02%) Dell
8 7 (14.89%) Synology
9 6 (12.77%) HP
9 6 (12.77%) Sophos
9 6 (12.77%) Tenable
10 4 (8.51%) Facebook
10 4 (8.51%) Instagram
10 4 (8.51%) QNAP
10 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
11 3 (6.38%) Barracuda Networks
11 3 (6.38%) Ubiquiti