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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 564 638
Rank change year-on-year -93 +74 +99
Permanent jobs citing NAS 46 76 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.44% 1.34% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 37 61 232
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -2.11% +14.46%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £56,563
90th Percentile £71,750 £73,886 £65,563
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +2.27% +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 10,440 5,651 12,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.90% 13.51% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,085 3,779 9,500
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,927 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £66,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -12.22% +3.45% -3.33%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -91 46 £52,500 +5.00% 20
UK excluding London -93 36 £50,000 +11.11% 16
South East -55 19 £50,000 +11.11% 6
London -15 10 £62,500 -13.79% 7
Work from Home -19 7 £81,000 +80.00% 6
North of England -76 7 £57,500 -13.01% 5
Yorkshire -66 4 £57,500 -4.17% 4
East of England - 4 £32,500 -
South West - 4 £63,750 - 1
North West -35 3 £40,000 -44.44%
West Midlands -26 2 £53,250 +42.00% 1
Midlands -32 2 £53,250 +42.00% 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 4 (8.70%) IIS
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (34.78%) Azure
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.87%) AWS
5 3 (6.52%) Mimecast
5 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) IaaS
6 2 (4.35%) PaaS
6 2 (4.35%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (69.57%) SAN
2 21 (45.65%) DNS
3 15 (32.61%) DHCP
3 15 (32.61%) Firewall
4 10 (21.74%) LAN
4 10 (21.74%) TCP/IP
4 10 (21.74%) WAN
5 6 (13.04%) NetScaler
5 6 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (13.04%) Wireshark
6 4 (8.70%) VLAN
6 4 (8.70%) Wireless
7 3 (6.52%) iSCSI
7 3 (6.52%) VoIP
7 3 (6.52%) VPN
8 2 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (4.35%) SNMP
9 1 (2.17%) DSL
9 1 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Git
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) IT Support
3 8 (17.39%) Senior
4 7 (15.22%) IT Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Applications Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (6.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Administrator
7 3 (6.52%) Applications Support
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) LDAP
1 2 (4.35%) Regular Expression
1 2 (4.35%) XMPP
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) PKI
2 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.70%) Replication
4 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.35%) FPGA
6 1 (2.17%) Clustering
6 1 (2.17%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.17%) EMC VNX
6 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (65.22%) Windows
2 27 (58.70%) Windows Server
3 14 (30.43%) Linux
4 9 (19.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.87%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.52%) CentOS
6 3 (6.52%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (19.57%) Service Delivery
5 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Management
6 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (15.22%) Validation
7 6 (13.04%) High Availability
7 6 (13.04%) ITIL
8 5 (10.87%) Antivirus Management
8 5 (10.87%) Change Control
9 4 (8.70%) Asset Management
9 4 (8.70%) Data Centre Operations
9 4 (8.70%) Data Loss Prevention
9 4 (8.70%) Informatics
9 4 (8.70%) SIEM
9 4 (8.70%) Storage Management
9 4 (8.70%) Ticket Management
9 4 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.87%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) Bicep
3 2 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) Perl
4 1 (2.17%) Bash
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) DBS Check
4 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.17%) CCNP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Postgraduate
6 1 (2.17%) RHCE
6 1 (2.17%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.17%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (8.70%) GxP
1 4 (8.70%) QA
1 4 (8.70%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (34.78%) Hyper-V
2 16 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (21.74%) vSphere
4 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.52%) BitLocker
5 3 (6.52%) Terminal Services
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.17%) Docker
7 1 (2.17%) Firmware
7 1 (2.17%) KVM
7 1 (2.17%) NFS
7 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) VxRail
2 4 (8.70%) WSUS
3 2 (4.35%) Avamar
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Nagios
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
4 1 (2.17%) SCCM
4 1 (2.17%) SCVMM
4 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 26 (56.52%) VMware
3 13 (28.26%) Veeam
4 11 (23.91%) Citrix
4 11 (23.91%) NetApp
5 10 (21.74%) Dell
6 8 (17.39%) Meraki
7 7 (15.22%) Commvault
7 7 (15.22%) Synology
8 6 (13.04%) Cisco
8 6 (13.04%) HP
8 6 (13.04%) Sophos
9 5 (10.87%) Tenable
9 5 (10.87%) Zerto
10 4 (8.70%) Facebook
10 4 (8.70%) Instagram
10 4 (8.70%) QNAP
10 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
11 3 (6.52%) Adobe
11 3 (6.52%) Palo Alto