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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 568 614
Rank change year-on-year -74 +46 +113
Permanent jobs citing NAS 35 102 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 1.54% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 25 48 182
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,275 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +11.79% +17.47%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,125 £55,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% +16.13%

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 9,947 6,610 10,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.45% 13.62% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,963 3,572 8,495
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,259 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +16.28% -4.44%

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 February 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 February 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 -38 35 £50,000 -8.26% 40
UK excluding London -51 19 £50,000 -7.41% 29
London +27 16 £105,000 +31.25% 15
South East -24 8 £50,000 -2.44% 7
Work from Home +19 6 £29,000 -46.30% 8
South West - 5 £29,000 - 4
North of England -46 4 £48,750 -21.63% 13
Midlands -7 2 £50,000 +17.65% 3
North West -9 2 £40,000 -44.44% 5
Yorkshire -41 2 £57,500 -4.17% 7
West Midlands -1 1 £50,000 +17.65% 2
East Midlands -28 1 - - 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 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.57%) IIS
3 2 (5.71%) Apache
3 2 (5.71%) nginx
3 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.86%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (25.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) Rubrik
5 3 (8.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (8.57%) AWS
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (71.43%) SAN
2 15 (42.86%) DHCP
2 15 (42.86%) DNS
3 9 (25.71%) WAN
4 8 (22.86%) Firewall
4 8 (22.86%) LAN
4 8 (22.86%) VLAN
5 7 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (17.14%) VPN
7 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
7 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (8.57%) Wireless
8 2 (5.71%) Broadband
8 2 (5.71%) Internet
8 2 (5.71%) iSCSI
8 2 (5.71%) SNMP
8 2 (5.71%) VSAN
9 1 (2.86%) MPLS
9 1 (2.86%) PBX
9 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Advertising
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (28.57%) IT Support
2 6 (17.14%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Backup Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Support Technician
6 2 (5.71%) IT Technician
6 2 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Support Technician
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) IT Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.86%) Senior IT Support
7 1 (2.86%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.43%) Replication
3 3 (8.57%) CCTV
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.71%) FPGA
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.86%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.86%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.86%) SCADA
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (48.57%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 5 (14.29%) Mac OS
4 3 (8.57%) Android
4 3 (8.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.71%) CentOS
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Service Delivery
4 8 (22.86%) Storage Management
5 7 (20.00%) High Availability
6 6 (17.14%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (14.29%) Business Continuity
7 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (11.43%) Change Control
8 4 (11.43%) Informatics
8 4 (11.43%) ITIL
8 4 (11.43%) ITSM
8 4 (11.43%) Patch Management
8 4 (11.43%) Service Management
8 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (11.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) PowerShell
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) Perl
3 2 (5.71%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.57%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) CCNP
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.86%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 4 (11.43%) GxP
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) Active Directory
2 13 (37.14%) Hyper-V
3 10 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (11.43%) vSphere
5 2 (5.71%) Docker
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.86%) Firmware
6 1 (2.86%) NFS
6 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Ansible
2 5 (14.29%) Avamar
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.57%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 2 (5.71%) SCCM
4 2 (5.71%) SCOM
4 2 (5.71%) VxRail
4 2 (5.71%) WSUS
5 1 (2.86%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.86%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (42.86%) Veeam
3 11 (31.43%) VMware
4 10 (28.57%) Dell
5 6 (17.14%) Citrix
5 6 (17.14%) NetApp
5 6 (17.14%) Pure Storage
6 5 (14.29%) Cisco
7 4 (11.43%) HP
7 4 (11.43%) Palo Alto
7 4 (11.43%) QNAP
7 4 (11.43%) Synology
8 3 (8.57%) Adobe
8 3 (8.57%) Commvault
8 3 (8.57%) Meraki
8 3 (8.57%) Oracle
8 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
8 3 (8.57%) SolarWinds
8 3 (8.57%) Tenable
9 2 (5.71%) Juniper