NAS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring NAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 117 123
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +45
Contract jobs citing NAS 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.33% 1.19% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £506 £545 £655
25th Percentile £507 £556 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% -11.11% +1.50%
75th Percentile £532 £631 £688
90th Percentile £535 £635 £695
Central London median daily rate £518 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -13.75% -11.11% +1.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 129 168 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.61% 9.56% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 113 141
10th Percentile £394 £258 £206
25th Percentile £450 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £744 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £540 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% +20.00% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £19.49 - -
25th Percentile £19.71 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.80 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.71%
75th Percentile £22.62 - £14.25
90th Percentile £23.27 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.79 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -35.71%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

NAS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NAS

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NAS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Server Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VCAP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Commvault
2 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat