Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NAS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 662 778 964
Rank change year-on-year +116 +186 -278
Permanent jobs citing NAS 229 218 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.69% 1.38% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 220 184 207
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,225 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -17.50% +5.82%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,688 £70,000 £76,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £38,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.41% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NAS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +81 215 £50,000 +20.48% 35
UK excluding London +13 169 £44,000 +14.29% 26
Work from Home +55 74 £44,000 +10.00% 10
North of England +65 59 £44,000 +10.00% 9
London +122 53 £52,000 -20.00% 7
South East +15 48 £47,500 +23.38% 10
Yorkshire +97 34 £57,500 +43.75% 3
South West -18 22 £42,500 +11.03% 1
North West +15 17 £32,500 -38.10% 6
East of England +21 16 £42,500 - 2
East Midlands -4 13 £45,000 -36.62% 3
Midlands -22 13 £45,000 +38.46% 4
North East -4 8 £35,000 +1.45%
Scotland - 8 £42,500 -
Wales +11 3 £40,000 -

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 49 (21.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (12.66%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.24%) IIS
4 10 (4.37%) WordPress
5 5 (2.18%) CMS
6 4 (1.75%) CloudStack
7 3 (1.31%) Site Server
8 1 (0.44%) Apache
8 1 (0.44%) JOnAS
8 1 (0.44%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (9.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (51.97%) Microsoft 365
2 112 (48.91%) Azure
3 43 (18.78%) Entra ID
4 41 (17.90%) AWS
5 39 (17.03%) OneDrive
6 17 (7.42%) SaaS
7 16 (6.99%) Google Workspace
8 9 (3.93%) Nutanix
9 7 (3.06%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.62%) PaaS
11 5 (2.18%) GCP
11 5 (2.18%) IaaS
11 5 (2.18%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.31%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.31%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.87%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.44%) Azure Storage
14 1 (0.44%) Slack
14 1 (0.44%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 174 (75.98%) SAN
2 109 (47.60%) Firewall
3 56 (24.45%) DNS
4 49 (21.40%) WAN
5 47 (20.52%) LAN
6 45 (19.65%) VPN
7 31 (13.54%) TCP/IP
7 31 (13.54%) VLAN
8 27 (11.79%) DHCP
8 27 (11.79%) VoIP
9 23 (10.04%) iSCSI
9 23 (10.04%) Wireless
10 21 (9.17%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (6.99%) SSL
12 14 (6.11%) Network Security
13 13 (5.68%) Broadband
14 12 (5.24%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (4.37%) Unified Communications
16 8 (3.49%) Internet
16 8 (3.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.06%) Power BI
3 5 (2.18%) MySQL
4 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.31%) GitLab
1 3 (1.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.73%) Finance
4 12 (5.24%) Law
4 12 (5.24%) Manufacturing
5 11 (4.80%) Games
6 4 (1.75%) Aviation
6 4 (1.75%) Avionics
6 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.44%) Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Electronics
9 1 (0.44%) Military
9 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (26.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (12.66%) IT Engineer
3 25 (10.92%) Support Engineer
4 23 (10.04%) Administrator
5 20 (8.73%) IT Support
5 20 (8.73%) Senior
6 18 (7.86%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (7.86%) Systems Administrator
7 17 (7.42%) IT Manager
7 17 (7.42%) Network Engineer
8 15 (6.55%) Consultant
8 15 (6.55%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 15 (6.55%) Lead
9 13 (5.68%) IT Administrator
10 12 (5.24%) IT Technician
11 11 (4.80%) IT Consultant
11 11 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) VMware Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) IT Systems Administrator
13 8 (3.49%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.11%) LAMP
2 6 (2.62%) HTML
2 6 (2.62%) LDAP
3 5 (2.18%) .NET
4 4 (1.75%) EJB
5 3 (1.31%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.31%) CSS
5 3 (1.31%) jQuery
6 2 (0.87%) SAML
6 2 (0.87%) ServiceStack
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.28%) Replication
2 33 (14.41%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.99%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.11%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.80%) Video Conferencing
6 10 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.06%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.06%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (2.18%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.18%) PKI
9 5 (2.18%) PMI
10 3 (1.31%) CCTV
10 3 (1.31%) Clustering
10 3 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.31%) FPGA
10 3 (1.31%) Wiki
11 2 (0.87%) CMDB
11 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (77.73%) Windows
2 130 (56.77%) Windows Server
3 90 (39.30%) Linux
4 23 (10.04%) Windows Server 2012
5 20 (8.73%) Windows 10
6 18 (7.86%) VMS
7 16 (6.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (6.55%) Mac OS
8 15 (6.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (4.80%) Ubuntu
10 6 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.31%) CentOS
11 3 (1.31%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.31%) Unix
12 2 (0.87%) Android
12 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (30.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 64 (27.95%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (17.47%) Migration
4 30 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (11.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (10.04%) ITIL
7 23 (10.04%) Preventative Maintenance
8 21 (9.17%) Storage Management
9 20 (8.73%) Business Continuity
9 20 (8.73%) Computer Science
9 20 (8.73%) Mentoring
10 19 (8.30%) Asset Management
10 19 (8.30%) Infrastructure Management
11 18 (7.86%) Project Delivery
11 18 (7.86%) Service Delivery
12 17 (7.42%) Project Management
13 15 (6.55%) Customer Service
13 15 (6.55%) Data Protection
13 15 (6.55%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.16%) PowerShell
2 20 (8.73%) Bash
3 13 (5.68%) Python
3 13 (5.68%) SQL
4 3 (1.31%) C#
4 3 (1.31%) Java
4 3 (1.31%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.31%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (17.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 39 (17.03%) Cisco Certification
3 34 (14.85%) MCSE
4 30 (13.10%) CCNA
5 28 (12.23%) Degree
6 18 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (6.99%) Security Cleared
8 12 (5.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (3.49%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.06%) MCSA
11 6 (2.62%) Citrix Certification
12 5 (2.18%) CCNP
12 5 (2.18%) JNCIA
12 5 (2.18%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.18%) VCAP
13 4 (1.75%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (1.75%) MCP
13 4 (1.75%) SC Cleared
14 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (6.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.68%) SLA
4 11 (4.80%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.75%) GDPR
6 2 (0.87%) NCSC
6 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 142 (62.01%) Active Directory
2 109 (47.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (31.44%) Hyper-V
4 39 (17.03%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (15.28%) vSphere
6 11 (4.80%) Docker
7 10 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.49%) Firmware
9 6 (2.62%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.31%) pfSense
11 2 (0.87%) NFS
11 2 (0.87%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 40 (17.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (11.79%) SCCM
3 25 (10.92%) vCenter Server
4 20 (8.73%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.93%) ZABBIX
6 8 (3.49%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.49%) WSUS
7 6 (2.62%) Nagios
8 4 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.75%) Backup Exec
8 4 (1.75%) cPanel
8 4 (1.75%) Plesk
9 3 (1.31%) Ansible
10 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 170 (74.24%) VMware
2 121 (52.84%) Microsoft
3 52 (22.71%) Veeam
4 35 (15.28%) Cisco
5 20 (8.73%) HP
6 17 (7.42%) Aruba
6 17 (7.42%) NetApp
7 16 (6.99%) Google
8 15 (6.55%) Dell
9 14 (6.11%) Synology
10 13 (5.68%) Apple
10 13 (5.68%) Mitel
11 12 (5.24%) Meraki
12 11 (4.80%) Palo Alto
13 10 (4.37%) ProCurve
13 10 (4.37%) Zerto
14 8 (3.49%) ESET
14 8 (3.49%) Sophos
15 7 (3.06%) Commvault
15 7 (3.06%) Fortinet