NAS Contracts in England

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring NAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NAS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 460 592
Rank change year-on-year +25 +132 +73
Contract jobs citing NAS 50 82 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.57% 1.64% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 51 43
10th Percentile £293 £350 £315
25th Percentile £350 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £463 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -15.14% +21.11%
75th Percentile £616 £669 £638
90th Percentile £637 £750 £778
UK median daily rate £486 £475 £548
% change year-on-year +2.37% -13.24% +21.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -60.69% +43.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS in England.

Daily rate trend for NAS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NAS in England.

Hourly rate trend for NAS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +25 19 £538 -15.69% 26
North of England +32 17 £405 -26.36% 11
Yorkshire +18 12 £405 -40.00% 4
North West +21 5 - - 5
East of England +28 4 £430 +1.18% 3
South East +25 4 £340 -22.29% 18
Midlands +21 4 - - 5
West Midlands +16 4 - - 3
South West +41 2 £875 +75.00% 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (14.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.00%) IaaS
6 2 (4.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.00%) Route 53
7 1 (2.00%) Rubrik
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 35 (70.00%) SAN
2 9 (18.00%) LAN
2 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (16.00%) Firewall
4 7 (14.00%) DNS
5 6 (12.00%) WAN
6 5 (10.00%) VLAN
7 4 (8.00%) SSL
8 3 (6.00%) DHCP
8 3 (6.00%) LTE
8 3 (6.00%) VPN
9 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.00%) VoIP
9 2 (4.00%) Wireless
10 1 (2.00%) DECT
10 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.00%) IP Telephony
10 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
10 1 (2.00%) VSAN
10 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) JIRA
2 5 (10.00%) Git
3 4 (8.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.00%) Electronics
5 2 (4.00%) Marketing
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Linux Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) DevOps Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) Server Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.00%) Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Identity Management Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (6.00%) Senior
7 3 (6.00%) Unix Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) LDAP
2 8 (16.00%) Middleware
3 5 (10.00%) SailPoint
4 4 (8.00%) Kafka
4 4 (8.00%) REST
5 3 (6.00%) XML
5 3 (6.00%) XML Schema
6 1 (2.00%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.00%) Clustering
3 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (8.00%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.00%) Replication
7 1 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (54.00%) Linux
2 26 (52.00%) Windows
3 22 (44.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (18.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (12.00%) Ubuntu
5 6 (12.00%) Unix
6 5 (10.00%) Windows 10
7 3 (6.00%) Solaris
8 2 (4.00%) AIX
8 2 (4.00%) CentOS
8 2 (4.00%) HPUX
8 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (22.00%) High Availability
3 11 (22.00%) Storage Management
4 10 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (18.00%) ITIL
6 7 (14.00%) Migration
7 6 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (12.00%) Problem Management
8 5 (10.00%) Agile
8 5 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (10.00%) DevOps
8 5 (10.00%) Task Automation
9 4 (8.00%) Asset Management
9 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
9 4 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
9 4 (8.00%) Key Management
9 4 (8.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (26.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.00%) Bash
4 4 (8.00%) C#
5 3 (6.00%) C++
6 2 (4.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CCNP
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) HP ASE
5 1 (2.00%) MCP
5 1 (2.00%) VCAP
5 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
1 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.00%) NIST
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.00%) ISO 14001
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (48.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (34.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (18.00%) vSphere
4 6 (12.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 4 (8.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (8.00%) VMware NSX
6 3 (6.00%) KVM
6 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.00%) Docker
7 1 (2.00%) NFS
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.00%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (2.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Ansible
2 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.00%) Puppet
3 4 (8.00%) Grafana
3 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.00%) vCenter Server
3 4 (8.00%) vRealize
4 3 (6.00%) SELinux
5 2 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.00%) Terraform
6 1 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.00%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (2.00%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (2.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (2.00%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (52.00%) VMware
2 14 (28.00%) Red Hat
3 12 (24.00%) Splunk
4 11 (22.00%) NetApp
5 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (20.00%) ServiceNow
6 9 (18.00%) EMC
7 8 (16.00%) Dell
7 8 (16.00%) Oracle
8 6 (12.00%) Cisco
9 5 (10.00%) Veritas
10 4 (8.00%) AppDynamics
10 4 (8.00%) Confluent
11 3 (6.00%) HP
12 2 (4.00%) SAP
13 1 (2.00%) Citrix
13 1 (2.00%) IBM
13 1 (2.00%) McAfee
13 1 (2.00%) Sybase
13 1 (2.00%) Symantec