Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NAS over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 610 797 897
Rank change year-on-year +187 +100 -263
Permanent jobs citing NAS 117 300 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 1.90% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 109 259 184
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £66,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -9.64% -2.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NAS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,115 15,817 16,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 12.52% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,389 10,530 11,491
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

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 November 2023.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 17 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 November 2023. 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 +149 106 £50,000 +19.05% 53
UK excluding London +97 71 £42,500 +13.33% 47
Work from Home +155 51 £46,250 +23.33% 23
London +247 41 £60,000 - 19
South East +101 20 £40,000 +6.67% 17
North of England +123 15 £35,000 -22.22% 11
South West +57 15 £54,000 +47.92% 6
North West +91 11 £32,500 -35.00% 1
Midlands +101 9 £42,500 +24.09% 2
West Midlands +115 6 £42,500 +25.00% 1
Wales +19 5 £43,190 -6.62% 3
East of England +118 4 £35,000 -9.09% 3
East Midlands +45 3 £32,500 -7.14% 1
North East +45 3 £35,000 -30.00% 6
Scotland +46 2 £47,500 +26.67% 7
Yorkshire +72 1 £54,500 +55.71% 4
Northern Ireland +34 1 £46,000 +15.00%

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 24 (20.51%) SharePoint
2 23 (19.66%) MS Exchange
3 7 (5.98%) Site Server
4 5 (4.27%) IIS
5 2 (1.71%) WordPress
6 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 59 (50.43%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (44.44%) Azure
3 22 (18.80%) AWS
4 18 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 11 (9.40%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (5.13%) SaaS
7 5 (4.27%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.27%) WhatsApp
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.71%) Cohesity
9 2 (1.71%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.71%) WeChat
10 1 (0.85%) Akamai
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.85%) GCP
10 1 (0.85%) IaaS
10 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (81.20%) SAN
2 44 (37.61%) Firewall
3 30 (25.64%) iSCSI
4 26 (22.22%) VPN
5 24 (20.51%) WAN
6 23 (19.66%) DNS
7 22 (18.80%) LAN
8 20 (17.09%) VLAN
9 17 (14.53%) VoIP
10 16 (13.68%) DHCP
11 13 (11.11%) WLAN
12 12 (10.26%) Fibre Channel
12 12 (10.26%) Skype
13 8 (6.84%) TCP/IP
14 5 (4.27%) Internet
14 5 (4.27%) IP Telephony
14 5 (4.27%) Wireless
15 4 (3.42%) Broadband
15 4 (3.42%) MPLS
16 3 (2.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (3.42%) MariaDB
4 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.85%) MySQL Workbench
5 1 (0.85%) Power BI
5 1 (0.85%) Redis
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) DBeaver
2 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.24%) Finance
3 16 (13.68%) Military
4 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.55%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.98%) Legal
6 6 (5.13%) Games
7 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.42%) Law
7 4 (3.42%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.42%) Publishing
8 3 (2.56%) Local Government
8 3 (2.56%) Police
8 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) French Language
10 1 (0.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (27.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (20.51%) Senior
3 18 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 15 (12.82%) Wintel Engineer
5 14 (11.97%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 13 (11.11%) Administrator
6 13 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 12 (10.26%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (7.69%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) IT Administrator
9 8 (6.84%) IT Systems Administrator
10 7 (5.98%) Field Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Junior
10 7 (5.98%) Junior IT Administrator
10 7 (5.98%) Junior Systems Administrator
11 6 (5.13%) IT Support
11 6 (5.13%) Lead
11 6 (5.13%) Network Engineer
12 5 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.84%) HTML
2 3 (2.56%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.71%) JSON
3 2 (1.71%) LAMP
3 2 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.71%) XML
3 2 (1.71%) YAML
4 1 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.85%) Node.js
4 1 (0.85%) SAML
4 1 (0.85%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) Clustering
1 16 (13.68%) Data Centre
1 16 (13.68%) Fat Client
1 16 (13.68%) PKI
1 16 (13.68%) Thin Client
2 10 (8.55%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.55%) Life Science
2 10 (8.55%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.69%) Replication
4 6 (5.13%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.56%) CCTV
5 3 (2.56%) CMDB
5 3 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.71%) HP Storage
6 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 85 (72.65%) Windows
2 64 (54.70%) Windows Server
3 41 (35.04%) Linux
4 38 (32.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 25 (21.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (8.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (6.84%) Mac OS
8 7 (5.98%) Windows 10
9 6 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (5.13%) Unix
10 5 (4.27%) Apple iOS
10 5 (4.27%) Ubuntu
11 4 (3.42%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (3.42%) Mac OS X
12 2 (1.71%) CentOS
12 2 (1.71%) Debian
12 2 (1.71%) VMS
13 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (31.62%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (17.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 20 (17.09%) Incident Management
5 19 (16.24%) Patch Management
6 16 (13.68%) Customer Service
6 16 (13.68%) ITIL
6 16 (13.68%) Key Management
7 15 (12.82%) Migration
8 13 (11.11%) Project Management
8 13 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
9 12 (10.26%) Agile
9 12 (10.26%) Data Protection
9 12 (10.26%) Database Mirroring
9 12 (10.26%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.26%) Storage Management
10 10 (8.55%) Change Management
10 10 (8.55%) PRINCE2
11 9 (7.69%) Computer Science
11 9 (7.69%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.75%) PowerShell
2 38 (32.48%) SQL
3 11 (9.40%) Python
4 7 (5.98%) Bash
5 4 (3.42%) C
5 4 (3.42%) Java
6 1 (0.85%) Clojure
6 1 (0.85%) Perl
6 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (19.66%) Degree
2 17 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (12.82%) DV Cleared
4 15 (12.82%) SC Cleared
5 14 (11.97%) MCSE
6 9 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (4.27%) CCNA
8 5 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.71%) CCNP
9 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.71%) NCSIE
10 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.85%) HND
10 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.68%) SLA
2 5 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.71%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 92 (78.63%) Active Directory
2 63 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (34.19%) Hyper-V
4 31 (26.50%) vSphere
5 16 (13.68%) VMware NSX
6 9 (7.69%) Terminal Server
6 9 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (5.98%) Firmware
8 6 (5.13%) NFS
9 4 (3.42%) Docker
9 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.71%) pfSense
11 1 (0.85%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.85%) KVM
11 1 (0.85%) QEMU
11 1 (0.85%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 21 (17.95%) SCCM
2 17 (14.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (13.68%) Failover Clustering
3 16 (13.68%) Microsoft Clustering
3 16 (13.68%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 6 (5.13%) Ansible
5 5 (4.27%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (4.27%) Terraform
6 4 (3.42%) SCOM
6 4 (3.42%) WSUS
7 3 (2.56%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.56%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.71%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.71%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.71%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (1.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.71%) yum
9 1 (0.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.85%) Puppet
9 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 79 (67.52%) VMware
2 76 (64.96%) Microsoft
3 18 (15.38%) Veeam
4 16 (13.68%) NetApp
5 10 (8.55%) Cisco
5 10 (8.55%) Dell
6 9 (7.69%) Synology
7 8 (6.84%) HP
7 8 (6.84%) Juniper
8 5 (4.27%) Apple
8 5 (4.27%) Commvault
8 5 (4.27%) Meraki
8 5 (4.27%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.42%) Citrix
9 4 (3.42%) EMC
9 4 (3.42%) Splunk
9 4 (3.42%) Verint
10 3 (2.56%) Google
10 3 (2.56%) QNAP
10 3 (2.56%) Ubiquiti