NAS Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
North West > Cumbria

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing NAS 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 3.30% 2.55% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 4.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - -
75th Percentile £612 - -
90th Percentile £627 - -
North West median daily rate £575 - £425

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 48 103 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 26.37% 52.55% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 31
10th Percentile £360 £363 £463
25th Percentile £464 £425 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +18.31%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £669
90th Percentile £612 £638 £672
North West median daily rate £476 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.78% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.39
Median hourly rate - - £41.23
75th Percentile - - £44.07
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.59 £26.75
% change year-on-year +70.59% -8.09% -14.40%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

NAS job vacancy trend in Cumbria

NAS
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing NAS

NAS
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Barrow-in-Furness +1 4 £593 - 1
NAS
North West

NAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
1 6 (100.00%) Structured Cabling
1 6 (100.00%) VLAN
1 6 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITSM
2 5 (83.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNA
1 6 (100.00%) CCNP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Server+ Certification
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) ServiceNow