NAS Contracts in England

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for NAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NAS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 601 661
Rank change year-on-year +147 +60 -138
Contract jobs citing NAS 81 62 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.62% 1.00% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 44 89
10th Percentile £350 £316 £263
25th Percentile £413 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% +21.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £538
90th Percentile £750 £773 £625
UK median daily rate £470 £545 £450
% change year-on-year -13.76% +21.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.99
25th Percentile - - £39.11
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £42.21
75th Percentile - - £44.07
90th Percentile - - £44.44
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £60.55 £42.21
% change year-on-year -60.69% +43.46% +91.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NAS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS in England.

Daily rate trend for NAS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NAS in England.

Hourly rate trend for NAS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +97 31 £632 +5.29% 10
South East +43 25 £438 -20.45% 9
South West - 7 £500 - 4
East of England +19 6 £425 -41.38% 1
Midlands +24 5 £750 +244.83% 2
North of England +27 4 £550 +49.15% 10
East Midlands +19 3 £750 +248.84% 1
West Midlands +30 2 £1,000 +207.69% 1
Yorkshire +20 2 £675 +129.79% 4
North West +9 1 £425 +9.68% 6
North East - 1 £180 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.88%) Confluence
2 8 (9.88%) IIS
3 7 (8.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.70%) WordPress
5 1 (1.23%) Site Server
5 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (29.63%) Azure
2 17 (20.99%) AWS
3 13 (16.05%) Nutanix
4 12 (14.81%) GCP
5 11 (13.58%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (13.58%) Rubrik
5 11 (13.58%) SaaS
6 10 (12.35%) PaaS
7 9 (11.11%) IaaS
8 3 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.70%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.47%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.23%) GitHub
10 1 (1.23%) OCI
10 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 73 (90.12%) SAN
2 27 (33.33%) DNS
3 22 (27.16%) DHCP
4 21 (25.93%) TCP/IP
4 21 (25.93%) VLAN
5 19 (23.46%) Firewall
6 10 (12.35%) LAN
6 10 (12.35%) VPN
7 9 (11.11%) Kerberos
8 8 (9.88%) WAN
9 7 (8.64%) Fibre Channel
9 7 (8.64%) iSCSI
10 6 (7.41%) 5G
10 6 (7.41%) BGP
10 6 (7.41%) OSPF
10 6 (7.41%) Wireless
11 5 (6.17%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (6.17%) SSL
11 5 (6.17%) VoIP
12 4 (4.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.41%) MySQL
2 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Git
2 12 (14.81%) JIRA
3 9 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.88%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.94%) gcov
5 4 (4.94%) GDB
5 4 (4.94%) Gradle
5 4 (4.94%) Subversion
General
1 13 (16.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Telecoms
3 8 (9.88%) Finance
4 6 (7.41%) Mandarin Language
4 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.17%) Multimedia
6 3 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 27 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (18.52%) Storage Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Senior
4 9 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Backup Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) C++ Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Developer
7 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Exchange Specialist
8 4 (4.94%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) LDAP
2 3 (3.70%) LAMP
3 2 (2.47%) ADSI
3 2 (2.47%) Middleware
3 2 (2.47%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.23%) .NET
4 1 (1.23%) OAuth
4 1 (1.23%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.23%) OpenID
4 1 (1.23%) REST
4 1 (1.23%) SAML
4 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Clustering
2 13 (16.05%) Replication
3 12 (14.81%) Data Centre
4 10 (12.35%) PKI
5 8 (9.88%) Fat Client
5 8 (9.88%) Thin Client
6 6 (7.41%) CCTV
6 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
6 6 (7.41%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.70%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.47%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.47%) Tandem
9 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 47 (58.02%) Windows
2 35 (43.21%) Linux
3 34 (41.98%) Windows Server
4 12 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (12.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (9.88%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (9.88%) Solaris
7 7 (8.64%) Ubuntu
7 7 (8.64%) Unix
7 7 (8.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (6.17%) VMS
9 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (20.99%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (20.99%) Migration
3 14 (17.28%) High Availability
4 12 (14.81%) Security Hardening
5 10 (12.35%) Agile
5 10 (12.35%) Deployment Automation
5 10 (12.35%) ITIL
5 10 (12.35%) Storage Management
6 9 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (9.88%) Data Security
7 8 (9.88%) DevOps
7 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (9.88%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.64%) Cost Optimisation
8 7 (8.64%) Database Migration
8 7 (8.64%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (8.64%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 14 (17.28%) Python
3 8 (9.88%) Bash
4 6 (7.41%) SQL
5 5 (6.17%) C++
6 4 (4.94%) C
7 1 (1.23%) C#
7 1 (1.23%) Java
7 1 (1.23%) Perl
7 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Degree
2 12 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (8.64%) MCSE
5 5 (6.17%) CCNA
5 5 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (6.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.23%) CCIE
7 1 (1.23%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) GDPR
1 8 (9.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.94%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (49.38%) Active Directory
1 40 (49.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (23.46%) vSphere
3 14 (17.28%) Hyper-V
4 8 (9.88%) Docker
5 5 (6.17%) KVM
5 5 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (6.17%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.94%) Firmware
7 2 (2.47%) BitLocker
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.23%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 15 (18.52%) Ansible
2 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.58%) Terraform
4 8 (9.88%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (9.88%) Netcool
4 8 (9.88%) SCCM
4 8 (9.88%) Tivoli
4 8 (9.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 6 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (7.41%) WSUS
6 5 (6.17%) Avamar
6 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (6.17%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.94%) Nessus
7 4 (4.94%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (4.94%) VxRail
7 4 (4.94%) ZABBIX
8 3 (3.70%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.47%) Backup Exec
9 2 (2.47%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (72.84%) VMware
2 38 (46.91%) Microsoft
3 28 (34.57%) Dell
4 16 (19.75%) EMC
5 15 (18.52%) HP
6 13 (16.05%) Oracle
7 12 (14.81%) Cisco
8 9 (11.11%) CyberArk
8 9 (11.11%) IBM
8 9 (11.11%) Red Hat
9 8 (9.88%) Isilon
9 8 (9.88%) Qualys
9 8 (9.88%) Serena
9 8 (9.88%) ServiceNow
9 8 (9.88%) Splunk
9 8 (9.88%) Veeam
10 6 (7.41%) Huawei
11 4 (4.94%) Klocwork
11 4 (4.94%) Perforce
12 3 (3.70%) Zerto