NAS Job Trends

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring NAS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 610 607 627
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +264
Permanent jobs citing NAS 68 196 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.94% 2.09% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 48 137 121
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +27.06% -10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £70,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +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 7,214 9,357 9,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.62% 12.02% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,024 4,900 6,907
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% -5.26%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -26 64 £47,500 -12.04% 29
UK excluding London -3 51 £46,000 -14.81% 29
South East +33 32 £46,500 -12.26% 11
London +39 13 £72,500 +3.57% 11
Work from Home +23 8 £50,000 -7.41% 21
South West +66 6 £31,000 -42.86% 2
Midlands +50 5 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands +50 4 £50,000 - 1
North of England +5 4 £33,000 -40.81% 6
Scotland +60 3 - - 4
North West +13 3 £33,000 +1.54% 2
East Midlands +29 1 - - 2
Wales +16 1 £42,500 -5.56%
Yorkshire -13 1 £35,000 -41.67% 4

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 18 (26.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.41%) JOnAS
2 3 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.94%) nginx
4 1 (1.47%) IIS
4 1 (1.47%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) Azure
2 20 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (19.12%) AWS
4 9 (13.24%) Entra ID
5 7 (10.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (7.35%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.41%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.41%) GCP
8 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
8 3 (4.41%) Rubrik
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.47%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (88.24%) SAN
2 25 (36.76%) Firewall
3 24 (35.29%) DNS
4 22 (32.35%) DHCP
5 17 (25.00%) VLAN
6 9 (13.24%) TCP/IP
7 8 (11.76%) VPN
8 7 (10.29%) iSCSI
8 7 (10.29%) SNMP
9 6 (8.82%) VSAN
10 5 (7.35%) IP Telephony
11 4 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (5.88%) Wireless
12 3 (4.41%) Internet
13 2 (2.94%) Network Security
13 2 (2.94%) VoIP
13 2 (2.94%) Wireshark
14 1 (1.47%) DECT
14 1 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
14 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.41%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Big Data
4 1 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.47%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Git
2 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Telecoms
3 8 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (8.82%) Finance
5 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.94%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (39.71%) Support Engineer
2 25 (36.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (32.35%) IT Support
4 20 (29.41%) IT Engineer
5 16 (23.53%) IT Support Engineer
6 15 (22.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Support
7 13 (19.12%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 8 (11.76%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (10.29%) Support Specialist
10 6 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) Virtualisation Specialist
10 6 (8.82%) VMware Engineer
10 6 (8.82%) VMware Specialist
10 6 (8.82%) VMware Support Engineer
11 5 (7.35%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 5 (7.35%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (7.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (7.35%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.47%) LAMP
2 1 (1.47%) Middleware
2 1 (1.47%) SAP Basis
2 1 (1.47%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.47%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Replication
2 10 (14.71%) Clustering
3 8 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 6 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (7.35%) Blackberry
5 5 (7.35%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.41%) CCTV
6 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.47%) PKI
8 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) SCADA
8 1 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (61.76%) Windows
2 22 (32.35%) Windows Server
3 16 (23.53%) Linux
4 7 (10.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (8.82%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.41%) Android
7 3 (4.41%) Apple iOS
7 3 (4.41%) Mac OS
7 3 (4.41%) VMS
7 3 (4.41%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (38.24%) Disaster Recovery
3 25 (36.76%) High Availability
4 21 (30.88%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (23.53%) Virtual Environments
7 12 (17.65%) Incident Management
7 12 (17.65%) Storage Management
8 10 (14.71%) Agile
8 10 (14.71%) Antivirus Management
8 10 (14.71%) Patch Management
9 9 (13.24%) Computer Science
9 9 (13.24%) DevOps
9 9 (13.24%) IT Strategy
9 9 (13.24%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (11.76%) Server Building
10 8 (11.76%) Web Filtering
11 7 (10.29%) Business Continuity
11 7 (10.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.71%) Python
3 6 (8.82%) SQL
4 4 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.00%) Degree
3 14 (20.59%) DV Cleared
4 10 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (13.24%) HND
5 9 (13.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
7 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.47%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.47%) CCNA
9 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.47%) HNC
9 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.47%) MCSA
9 1 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 42 (61.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (33.82%) Hyper-V
4 16 (23.53%) Docker
4 16 (23.53%) vSphere
5 15 (22.06%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (16.18%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (22.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (19.12%) Ansible
4 10 (14.71%) vCenter Server
5 6 (8.82%) PowerCLI
5 6 (8.82%) Puppet
5 6 (8.82%) vMotion
5 6 (8.82%) vRealize
6 5 (7.35%) PaperCut
6 5 (7.35%) Terraform
7 3 (4.41%) Avamar
8 2 (2.94%) Grafana
8 2 (2.94%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.94%) Istio
8 2 (2.94%) linkerd
8 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.47%) Podman
9 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 52 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 47 (69.12%) VMware
3 24 (35.29%) Veeam
4 14 (20.59%) Cisco
5 7 (10.29%) HP
5 7 (10.29%) NetApp
6 6 (8.82%) Citrix
6 6 (8.82%) Palo Alto
6 6 (8.82%) Red Hat
7 5 (7.35%) Datto
7 5 (7.35%) McAfee
7 5 (7.35%) SAP
8 4 (5.88%) Dell
8 4 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (5.88%) Oracle
8 4 (5.88%) Sophos
8 4 (5.88%) Splunk
9 3 (4.41%) Nimsoft
9 3 (4.41%) Sage
9 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow