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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 741 608 575
Rank change year-on-year -133 -33 +54
Permanent jobs citing NAS 57 64 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.73% 0.90% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 33 45 125
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £136,000 £88,250 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -14.81% +35.00%

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 7,855 7,125 9,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.66% 14.40% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,883 3,924 4,523
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,087 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £28,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% -0.97%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,093 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +28.57% -26.32% +5.56%

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 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 13 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 1 October 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 -132 50 £57,500 +15.00% 75
UK excluding London -132 42 £52,500 +14.13% 51
South East -70 15 £45,000 -10.00% 16
London -61 13 £135,000 +86.21% 28
Work from Home -43 8 £100,000 +100.00% 31
South West -74 8 £62,500 +101.61% 4
East of England - 7 £41,500 - 5
Yorkshire -30 5 £57,500 +64.29% 5
North of England -73 5 £57,500 +74.24% 17
Wales -70 3 £50,871 +19.70% 1
Scotland +13 2 - - 7
Midlands -49 2 £65,000 +30.00% 1
West Midlands -49 2 £65,000 +30.00% 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 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.53%) IIS
3 4 (7.02%) SAS
3 4 (7.02%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.75%) Confluence
5 1 (1.75%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) Azure
2 18 (31.58%) AWS
3 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.77%) Nutanix
6 3 (5.26%) Cohesity
6 3 (5.26%) GCP
6 3 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.51%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.51%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.51%) SaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 43 (75.44%) SAN
2 20 (35.09%) DNS
2 20 (35.09%) Firewall
3 16 (28.07%) DHCP
4 10 (17.54%) WAN
5 8 (14.04%) LAN
5 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
5 8 (14.04%) VLAN
6 6 (10.53%) VPN
6 6 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (8.77%) Wireless
8 4 (7.02%) CHAP
8 4 (7.02%) Kerberos
8 4 (7.02%) NetScaler
8 4 (7.02%) VoIP
8 4 (7.02%) Wireshark
9 3 (5.26%) Network Security
10 2 (3.51%) HTTPS
10 2 (3.51%) IP Telephony
10 2 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) JIRA
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.77%) Aviation
4 4 (7.02%) Aeronautics
4 4 (7.02%) Military
5 3 (5.26%) Finance
5 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Local Government
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Police
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Swedish Language
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Architect
3 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Architect
3 8 (14.04%) IT Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 7 (12.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (8.77%) IT Support
5 5 (8.77%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Applications Architect
7 3 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Platform Architect
8 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Head of IT
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) ModSecurity
1 3 (5.26%) Regular Expression
1 3 (5.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Data Centre
2 11 (19.30%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (14.04%) Replication
4 6 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (7.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
6 4 (7.02%) PKI
7 3 (5.26%) Clustering
7 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 3 (5.26%) Social Media
8 2 (3.51%) CCTV
8 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 34 (59.65%) Windows
2 32 (56.14%) Windows Server
3 20 (35.09%) Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Windows 10
4 4 (7.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.26%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.75%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (38.60%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (24.56%) Roadmaps
4 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.54%) Business Continuity
5 10 (17.54%) Technology Roadmap
6 9 (15.79%) High Availability
6 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (14.04%) ITIL
7 8 (14.04%) Storage Management
8 7 (12.28%) DevOps
8 7 (12.28%) Migration
8 7 (12.28%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (10.53%) Service Delivery
9 6 (10.53%) Validation
10 5 (8.77%) Agile
10 5 (8.77%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.53%) Bash
3 3 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (1.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.02%) Degree
5 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.51%) CCNA
6 2 (3.51%) CCNP
6 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.51%) VCAP
6 2 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.02%) JSP 440
2 4 (7.02%) SLA
3 2 (3.51%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 27 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 24 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (31.58%) Hyper-V
4 9 (15.79%) vSphere
5 5 (8.77%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (8.77%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (7.02%) Firmware
6 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (5.26%) KVM
7 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.51%) BitLocker
8 2 (3.51%) NFS
8 2 (3.51%) Terminal Services
8 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Ansible
2 4 (7.02%) VxRail
2 4 (7.02%) WSUS
3 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.75%) Avamar
4 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.75%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.75%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.75%) SCCM
4 1 (1.75%) SCOM
4 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (63.16%) VMware
2 27 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 15 (26.32%) Cisco
4 13 (22.81%) Veeam
5 11 (19.30%) NetApp
6 10 (17.54%) Meraki
7 7 (12.28%) Commvault
7 7 (12.28%) Dell
7 7 (12.28%) Zerto
8 5 (8.77%) Citrix
8 5 (8.77%) HP
9 4 (7.02%) Sophos
9 4 (7.02%) Tenable
10 3 (5.26%) Apple
10 3 (5.26%) Facebook
10 3 (5.26%) Instagram
10 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
11 2 (3.51%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
11 2 (3.51%) Splunk