NAS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring NAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing NAS 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.32% - 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% - 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £1,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +207.69%
West Midlands median daily rate £413 - £1,000
% change year-on-year - - +207.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

NAS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 132 40 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.25% 7.83% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 24 84
10th Percentile £208 £167 £200
25th Percentile £300 £391 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +50.00% -30.00%
75th Percentile £541 £595 £488
90th Percentile £616 £697 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £416 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -12.37% +18.75% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £16.68 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.68 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £19.95
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.00%
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - £72.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £16.26 £19.95
% change year-on-year +256.70% -18.50% +19.10%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NAS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

NAS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

NAS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NAS

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing NAS

NAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Banking Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Unix Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk