NAS Job Trends

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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 577 623
Rank change year-on-year -41 +46 +222
Permanent jobs citing NAS 53 183 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.79% 2.32% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 35 110 105
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,175 £31,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £46,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +13.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,625 £63,000
90th Percentile £109,750 £96,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £54,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -24.07% +35.00% +6.67%

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 6,728 7,895 8,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 11.46% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,974 4,101 6,750
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,790 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 24 October 2025.

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 24 October 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 -27 50 £47,500 -12.04% 26
UK excluding London -41 36 £41,000 -24.07% 26
South East -2 17 £47,500 - 19
London +43 15 £72,500 -23.68% 8
South West +58 8 £31,000 -40.95%
Work from Home +14 6 £50,000 -7.41% 21
Midlands +34 5 £50,000 +11.11%
West Midlands +41 4 £50,000 +5.26%
North West +12 3 £33,000 -8.33% 1
North of England -15 3 £33,000 -45.00% 3
Scotland - 3 - - 2
East Midlands +9 1 - -

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 16 (30.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.66%) JOnAS
4 2 (3.77%) nginx
5 1 (1.89%) IIS
5 1 (1.89%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (1.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (60.38%) Azure
2 25 (47.17%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (18.87%) AWS
4 9 (16.98%) Entra ID
5 7 (13.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (9.43%) GCP
7 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.55%) Rubrik
8 3 (5.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (5.66%) IaaS
8 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.66%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 43 (81.13%) SAN
2 24 (45.28%) Firewall
3 19 (35.85%) VLAN
4 18 (33.96%) DNS
5 16 (30.19%) DHCP
6 9 (16.98%) TCP/IP
6 9 (16.98%) VPN
7 7 (13.21%) SNMP
7 7 (13.21%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (9.43%) Internet
8 5 (9.43%) IP Telephony
9 4 (7.55%) iSCSI
9 4 (7.55%) VSAN
9 4 (7.55%) Wireless
10 3 (5.66%) SD-WAN
10 3 (5.66%) WAN
11 2 (3.77%) Broadband
11 2 (3.77%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (3.77%) LAN
11 2 (3.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.66%) Power BI
4 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.89%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
General
1 12 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Finance
4 6 (11.32%) Telecoms
5 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
6 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.77%) Advertising
7 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (28.30%) IT Support
3 14 (26.42%) Support Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) IT Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Storage Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (9.43%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (9.43%) Administrator
7 5 (9.43%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) IT Administrator
7 5 (9.43%) Senior
8 4 (7.55%) Backup Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Service Desk Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Systems Manager
10 2 (3.77%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) LAMP
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.89%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.89%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.32%) Replication
3 5 (9.43%) Blackberry
3 5 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (9.43%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.66%) CCTV
5 3 (5.66%) Clustering
5 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.89%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) SCADA
6 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (52.83%) Windows
2 14 (26.42%) Windows Server
3 10 (18.87%) Linux
4 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (9.43%) Mac OS
6 4 (7.55%) Windows 10
7 3 (5.66%) Android
7 3 (5.66%) Apple iOS
7 3 (5.66%) VMS
7 3 (5.66%) Windows 7
7 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Disaster Recovery
2 18 (33.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (26.42%) High Availability
3 14 (26.42%) Storage Management
4 13 (24.53%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (18.87%) Virtual Environments
6 8 (15.09%) Antivirus Management
6 8 (15.09%) Incident Management
6 8 (15.09%) Patch Management
7 7 (13.21%) Agile
7 7 (13.21%) Business Continuity
7 7 (13.21%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (11.32%) DevOps
8 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 6 (11.32%) IT Strategy
8 6 (11.32%) Migration
9 5 (9.43%) Proactive Monitoring
9 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) PowerShell
2 13 (24.53%) Python
3 6 (11.32%) SQL
4 5 (9.43%) Bash
5 2 (3.77%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (9.43%) HND
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.77%) CCNP
7 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
7 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.89%) CCNA
8 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.89%) MCSE
8 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.89%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.77%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 33 (62.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (56.60%) Active Directory
3 15 (28.30%) Hyper-V
4 13 (24.53%) vSphere
5 11 (20.75%) Docker
6 10 (18.87%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (13.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.77%) Firmware
9 1 (1.89%) NFS
Systems Management
1 19 (35.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (18.87%) Ansible
2 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
3 6 (11.32%) vCenter Server
4 5 (9.43%) PaperCut
4 5 (9.43%) Terraform
5 4 (7.55%) Avamar
6 2 (3.77%) Grafana
6 2 (3.77%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.77%) Istio
6 2 (3.77%) linkerd
6 2 (3.77%) PowerCLI
6 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.77%) Puppet
6 2 (3.77%) SCOM
6 2 (3.77%) vMotion
6 2 (3.77%) vRealize
7 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (73.58%) Microsoft
2 34 (64.15%) VMware
3 19 (35.85%) Veeam
4 14 (26.42%) Cisco
5 7 (13.21%) Datto
5 7 (13.21%) NetApp
6 6 (11.32%) Palo Alto
7 5 (9.43%) Dell
7 5 (9.43%) McAfee
7 5 (9.43%) Pure Storage
7 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
8 4 (7.55%) Citrix
8 4 (7.55%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (7.55%) Splunk
9 3 (5.66%) Adobe
9 3 (5.66%) ESET
9 3 (5.66%) Nimsoft
9 3 (5.66%) Oracle
9 3 (5.66%) SAP
9 3 (5.66%) Ubiquiti