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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 118 130
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +63
Contract jobs citing NAS 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.15% 0.040%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.30% 1.52% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £527 £504 -
25th Percentile £560 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.21% - -
75th Percentile £710 £556 -
90th Percentile £749 - -
Central London median daily rate £630 £538 -
% change year-on-year +17.21% - -

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 154 198 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.38% 9.91% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 128 160
10th Percentile £322 £275 £279
25th Percentile £419 £456 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £514
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% +2.82% -4.86%
75th Percentile £661 £640 £609
90th Percentile £738 £730 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.31 - £24.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.97
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -30.80% +129.10%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £62.86
90th Percentile £42.74 - £71.64
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in the City of London

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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 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
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%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
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
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
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 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) VCAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) VMware