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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 612 583 606
Rank change year-on-year -29 +23 +205
Permanent jobs citing NAS 48 175 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.64% 2.23% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 34 103 114
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +13.68% +13.77%
75th Percentile £71,250 £59,375 £59,375
90th Percentile £118,500 £103,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £54,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -24.07% +27.06% +13.33%

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 7,525 7,845 8,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.37% 11.66% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 4,191 3,980 6,543
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -5.26%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 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 -31 46 £47,750 -11.57% 47
UK excluding London -15 29 £41,000 -24.07% 41
London +61 17 £88,750 -11.25% 13
South East 0 12 £46,750 -1.58% 28
South West +25 8 £31,000 -40.95% 2
Work from Home +36 7 £50,000 -7.41% 21
Midlands +58 5 £50,000 +11.11% 2
West Midlands +50 4 £50,000 +5.26% 2
North West +47 2 £36,500 +1.39% 3
North of England +14 2 £36,500 -32.41% 3
Scotland - 2 - - 4
East Midlands +14 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 12 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) JOnAS
3 2 (4.17%) nginx
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) CINEMA 4D
2 1 (2.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (20.83%) Entra ID
4 7 (14.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (12.50%) AWS
5 6 (12.50%) Rubrik
6 4 (8.33%) GCP
6 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (6.25%) IaaS
7 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 3 (6.25%) PowerApps
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.08%) PaaS
9 1 (2.08%) SaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (79.17%) SAN
2 21 (43.75%) Firewall
3 19 (39.58%) VLAN
4 18 (37.50%) DNS
5 17 (35.42%) DHCP
6 11 (22.92%) TCP/IP
7 9 (18.75%) VPN
8 6 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (10.42%) Wireless
10 4 (8.33%) Internet
10 4 (8.33%) iSCSI
10 4 (8.33%) SNMP
10 4 (8.33%) WAN
11 3 (6.25%) LAN
11 3 (6.25%) SD-WAN
12 2 (4.17%) Broadband
12 2 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (4.17%) IP Telephony
12 2 (4.17%) VSAN
13 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.17%) Advertising
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) IT Support
3 10 (20.83%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) IT Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (10.42%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (10.42%) Administrator
6 5 (10.42%) IT Administrator
6 5 (10.42%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 3 (6.25%) Systems Manager
9 2 (4.17%) IT Support Technician
9 2 (4.17%) IT Technician
9 2 (4.17%) Support Technician
9 2 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) LAMP
2 1 (2.08%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.33%) Replication
4 3 (6.25%) CCTV
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Blackberry
5 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.08%) EMC VNX
6 1 (2.08%) FPGA
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.08%) SCADA
6 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (47.92%) Windows
2 14 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.58%) Linux
3 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (10.42%) Mac OS
5 3 (6.25%) Android
5 3 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.17%) VMS
6 2 (4.17%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.08%) CentOS
7 1 (2.08%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.08%) Unix
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (22.92%) Storage Management
6 9 (18.75%) High Availability
7 8 (16.67%) Agile
7 8 (16.67%) Business Continuity
7 8 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 6 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 6 (12.50%) Incident Management
9 6 (12.50%) Migration
9 6 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (10.42%) Dashboard Development
10 5 (10.42%) DevOps
10 5 (10.42%) Patch Management
10 5 (10.42%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (10.42%) Service Desk Management
10 5 (10.42%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 14 (29.17%) Python
3 5 (10.42%) SQL
4 4 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CCNP
5 2 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.17%) HND
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) CCNA
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.08%) MCSA
6 1 (2.08%) MCSE
6 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.08%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 26 (54.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (47.92%) Active Directory
3 13 (27.08%) Hyper-V
4 11 (22.92%) vSphere
5 10 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (14.58%) Docker
7 5 (10.42%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (4.17%) Firmware
9 1 (2.08%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (20.83%) Ansible
3 6 (12.50%) Avamar
3 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.42%) PaperCut
5 4 (8.33%) Terraform
6 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
7 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.17%) SCCM
7 2 (4.17%) SCOM
8 1 (2.08%) AirWatch
8 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.08%) Grafana
8 1 (2.08%) HAProxy
8 1 (2.08%) Istio
8 1 (2.08%) linkerd
8 1 (2.08%) Podman
8 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (2.08%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 32 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (56.25%) VMware
3 15 (31.25%) Veeam
4 12 (25.00%) Cisco
5 9 (18.75%) NetApp
6 8 (16.67%) Dell
7 7 (14.58%) Datto
7 7 (14.58%) Palo Alto
7 7 (14.58%) Pure Storage
8 6 (12.50%) Red Hat
9 5 (10.42%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (8.33%) Oracle
11 3 (6.25%) Adobe
11 3 (6.25%) SolarWinds
11 3 (6.25%) Splunk
11 3 (6.25%) Ubiquiti
12 2 (4.17%) arcserve
12 2 (4.17%) Nimsoft
12 2 (4.17%) Sage
12 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow