NAS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring NAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 125 147
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 +48
Contract jobs citing NAS 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.11% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.13% 1.92% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £419 £506 -
25th Percentile £470 £514 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £538 £438
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% +22.86% -18.98%
75th Percentile £680 £580 £659
90th Percentile £737 £622 £789
London median daily rate £570 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +6.05% -10.42% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 177 261 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.40% 11.22% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 169 187
10th Percentile £255 £285 £221
25th Percentile £406 £430 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £664 £638 £600
90th Percentile £738 £739 £694
London median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.01% -2.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £21.96 - £26.38
25th Percentile £24.18 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% -33.33% +132.14%
75th Percentile £41.99 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £56.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £28.63
% change year-on-year -38.66% +43.23% +19.27%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

NAS job vacancy trend in Central London

NAS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NAS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in Central London over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in Central London

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NAS

NAS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -3 2 £570 +6.05% 4
NAS
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) yum
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp