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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 655 590 611
Rank change year-on-year -65 +21 +141
Permanent jobs citing NAS 37 81 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.050% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 1.38% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 28 50 212
10th Percentile £37,125 £32,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +3.26% +10.84%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,375 £55,063
90th Percentile £111,250 £74,747 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -3.41% +14.29%

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 10,153 5,888 11,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.70% 13.50% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,043 3,634 9,226
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £53,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.03% +9.28% -7.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,640 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £43,239
% change year-on-year -30.00% +15.64% -3.91%

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 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 11 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 14 March 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 -76 37 £53,750 +7.50% 26
UK excluding London -51 24 £50,000 +17.65% 25
London +8 13 £72,500 -9.38% 5
South East -16 12 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Work from Home +12 6 £29,000 -38.95% 8
North of England -63 5 £48,750 -26.25% 8
South West - 5 £29,000 - 3
North West -15 3 £40,000 -44.44% 2
West Midlands +1 2 £53,250 +42.00% 1
Midlands -27 2 £53,250 +33.13% 2
Yorkshire -50 2 £57,500 -17.86% 6

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 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.11%) IIS
3 2 (5.41%) Apache
3 2 (5.41%) nginx
3 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.70%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.81%) IaaS
5 3 (8.11%) Rubrik
6 2 (5.41%) AWS
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.41%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (72.97%) SAN
2 18 (48.65%) DNS
3 14 (37.84%) DHCP
4 10 (27.03%) WAN
5 9 (24.32%) Firewall
5 9 (24.32%) LAN
6 8 (21.62%) TCP/IP
7 6 (16.22%) VLAN
8 5 (13.51%) NetScaler
8 5 (13.51%) VPN
9 4 (10.81%) Wireless
9 4 (10.81%) Wireshark
10 3 (8.11%) iSCSI
10 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
10 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (5.41%) Broadband
11 2 (5.41%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (5.41%) Internet
11 2 (5.41%) SNMP
11 2 (5.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.41%) Advertising
6 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) IT Support
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Administrator
6 3 (8.11%) Applications Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) IT Support Technician
7 2 (5.41%) IT Technician
7 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Support Technician
7 2 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Database Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (2.70%) IT Administrator
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) LDAP
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.70%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) PKI
2 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (10.81%) Replication
3 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.41%) FPGA
4 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.70%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (54.05%) Windows
2 18 (48.65%) Windows Server
3 8 (21.62%) Linux
4 7 (18.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (8.11%) CentOS
6 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (5.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.70%) Unix
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) Service Delivery
5 6 (16.22%) High Availability
5 6 (16.22%) Storage Management
5 6 (16.22%) Validation
6 5 (13.51%) Business Continuity
6 5 (13.51%) Change Control
6 5 (13.51%) SIEM
7 4 (10.81%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
7 4 (10.81%) Informatics
7 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (10.81%) ITIL
7 4 (10.81%) Migration
7 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.81%) Ticket Management
8 3 (8.11%) Data Centre Operations
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Bash
3 2 (5.41%) Java
3 2 (5.41%) Perl
3 2 (5.41%) SQL
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.41%) CCNP
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Postgraduate
5 1 (2.70%) RHCE
5 1 (2.70%) RHCSA
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.70%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (10.81%) GxP
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) SLA
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (40.54%) Hyper-V
3 13 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (24.32%) vSphere
5 3 (8.11%) Docker
6 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.70%) Firmware
7 1 (2.70%) KVM
7 1 (2.70%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Avamar
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (5.41%) SCCM
3 2 (5.41%) SCOM
3 2 (5.41%) VxRail
3 2 (5.41%) WSUS
4 1 (2.70%) AirWatch
4 1 (2.70%) Nagios
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) Puppet
4 1 (2.70%) SCVMM
4 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (48.65%) VMware
3 15 (40.54%) Veeam
4 11 (29.73%) Citrix
5 9 (24.32%) Dell
5 9 (24.32%) NetApp
6 5 (13.51%) Cisco
6 5 (13.51%) Commvault
7 4 (10.81%) HP
7 4 (10.81%) Meraki
7 4 (10.81%) Palo Alto
7 4 (10.81%) Pure Storage
7 4 (10.81%) QNAP
7 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
7 4 (10.81%) Synology
8 3 (8.11%) Oracle
8 3 (8.11%) SolarWinds
8 3 (8.11%) Tenable
8 3 (8.11%) Zerto
9 2 (5.41%) Juniper