Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring NAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NAS over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 656 760
Rank change year-on-year +26 +104 +193
Permanent jobs citing NAS 82 228 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.89% 1.69% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 64 219 181
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £47,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% +15.85% -18.00%
75th Percentile £65,507 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £66,250 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £44,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year +3.37% +15.58% -9.41%

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 9,239 13,484 15,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.77% 13.62% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,292 9,395 8,040
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,925 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,875 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% -2.50% -3.23%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NAS.

Salary trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NAS over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 15 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 May 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 +8 78 £51,250 +2.50% 75
UK excluding London +82 65 £46,000 +3.37% 55
South East +89 36 £45,500 -4.21% 27
Work from Home +70 26 £45,000 +2.27% 46
North of England +16 22 £66,103 +32.21% 9
London +76 15 £72,500 +39.42% 38
Yorkshire +52 12 £60,000 - 1
North West -1 8 £71,991 +121.51% 7
Midlands +50 2 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Wales +40 2 £42,500 +6.25% 3
North East +38 2 £37,500 +7.14% 1
West Midlands - 2 £37,500 - 4
Scotland +112 1 £37,500 -11.76% 5
South West +86 1 £55,000 +29.41% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

NAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (24.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 2 (2.44%) IIS
3 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.44%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.22%) nginx
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (45.12%) Azure
2 19 (23.17%) AWS
3 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.41%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.98%) GCP
6 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.88%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub
7 2 (2.44%) IaaS
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.44%) PaaS
7 2 (2.44%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.22%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.22%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 76 (92.68%) SAN
2 28 (34.15%) DNS
3 25 (30.49%) DHCP
4 20 (24.39%) Firewall
5 11 (13.41%) VPN
5 11 (13.41%) VSAN
6 9 (10.98%) VLAN
7 7 (8.54%) iSCSI
8 6 (7.32%) WAN
9 4 (4.88%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (4.88%) FTP
9 4 (4.88%) IPv4
9 4 (4.88%) LAN
9 4 (4.88%) PBX
9 4 (4.88%) SMTP
9 4 (4.88%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (3.66%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (3.66%) SNMP
10 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
11 2 (2.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.44%) Big Data
3 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.22%) MySQL
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.22%) Power BI
4 1 (1.22%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.44%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.29%) Finance
3 8 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.32%) Banking
5 6 (7.32%) Games
5 6 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.44%) Legal
6 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.22%) Military
7 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (41.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (40.24%) Support Engineer
3 23 (28.05%) IT Engineer
4 19 (23.17%) Infrastructure Support
4 19 (23.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 19 (23.17%) IT Support
5 18 (21.95%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (19.51%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Support Specialist
9 6 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 6 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (7.32%) VMware Specialist
9 6 (7.32%) VMware Support Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Administrator
10 5 (6.10%) Storage Administrator
11 4 (4.88%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.76%) Middleware
2 3 (3.66%) LDAP
3 1 (1.22%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.22%) SAP Basis
3 1 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.22%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.05%) Clustering
2 11 (13.41%) Replication
3 8 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.44%) Blackberry
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.44%) PKI
6 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.22%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (78.05%) Windows
2 29 (35.37%) Windows Server
3 25 (30.49%) Linux
4 8 (9.76%) Windows 10
5 6 (7.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.88%) Android
6 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.66%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.44%) Solaris
9 1 (1.22%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 35 (42.68%) Disaster Recovery
3 32 (39.02%) High Availability
4 27 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (25.61%) Virtual Environments
6 16 (19.51%) Computer Science
6 16 (19.51%) IT Strategy
7 15 (18.29%) Kalman Filter
8 14 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (14.63%) Incident Management
9 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
10 11 (13.41%) Change Control
10 11 (13.41%) Server Building
11 9 (10.98%) Agile
11 9 (10.98%) Antivirus Management
11 9 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Management
11 9 (10.98%) Task Automation
11 9 (10.98%) Web Filtering
12 8 (9.76%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.02%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.41%) SQL
3 3 (3.66%) Python
4 2 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (1.22%) Bash
5 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (37.80%) Degree
2 23 (28.05%) Security Cleared
3 18 (21.95%) DV Cleared
4 16 (19.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (15.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (13.41%) HND
7 10 (12.20%) Azure Certification
8 8 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (8.54%) CCNA
9 7 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (6.10%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
11 2 (2.44%) CCNP
11 2 (2.44%) HNC
12 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
12 1 (1.22%) HP ASE
12 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 1 (1.22%) MCSA
12 1 (1.22%) MCSE
12 1 (1.22%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.63%) GDPR
2 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.66%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.44%) NIST
4 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (57.32%) Active Directory
1 47 (57.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (40.24%) Hyper-V
3 19 (23.17%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (17.07%) Docker
5 9 (10.98%) vSphere
6 6 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (6.10%) VMware NSX
8 3 (3.66%) KVM
9 2 (2.44%) Firmware
9 2 (2.44%) NFS
9 2 (2.44%) SRDF
9 2 (2.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (2.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.63%) Ansible
3 10 (12.20%) Terraform
4 9 (10.98%) vCenter Server
5 8 (9.76%) Puppet
6 6 (7.32%) PowerCLI
6 6 (7.32%) vMotion
6 6 (7.32%) vRealize
7 5 (6.10%) Progress Chef
8 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (4.88%) SCCM
8 4 (4.88%) WSUS
9 3 (3.66%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (1.22%) Grafana
10 1 (1.22%) linkerd
10 1 (1.22%) NetApp OnCommand
10 1 (1.22%) OpenVAS
10 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 60 (73.17%) VMware
2 54 (65.85%) Microsoft
3 24 (29.27%) Veeam
4 18 (21.95%) Cisco
5 10 (12.20%) Citrix
5 10 (12.20%) EMC
5 10 (12.20%) Google
5 10 (12.20%) Oracle
6 9 (10.98%) HP
7 7 (8.54%) Red Hat
8 6 (7.32%) NetApp
9 3 (3.66%) Dell
9 3 (3.66%) F5
9 3 (3.66%) SAP
9 3 (3.66%) Veritas
10 2 (2.44%) McAfee
10 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.44%) SonicWALL
10 2 (2.44%) Sophos
10 2 (2.44%) Splunk