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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 465 528
Rank change year-on-year +5 +63 +114
Contract jobs citing NAS 52 59 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 1.41% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 53
10th Percentile £404 £398 £363
25th Percentile £458 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £637 £605 £681
90th Percentile £783 £658 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year - -50.24% -24.08%
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £54.19
% change year-on-year - -56.08% +33.56%

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 3,400 4,197 5,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 12.60% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,104 2,581 3,716
10th Percentile £250 £243 £228
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% - -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £680 £688 £730
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 286 227
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.48 £15.75
25th Percentile £25.04 £20.50 £21.61
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -0.23% +69.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £68.68
90th Percentile £84.70 £75.00 £76.46
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -5.61% -9.26% +54.29%

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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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +13 18 £623 +13.18% 24
North of England -1 18 £419 -22.09% 11
Yorkshire -4 13 £413 -31.96% 2
South East +20 9 £504 +11.94% 21
North West -4 5 £425 -5.56% 9
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
Midlands - 3 - - 3
East of England +12 2 - - 2
South West +16 1 £875 +75.00%
NAS
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 (13.46%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) CICS
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
3 5 (9.62%) GCP
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Storage
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.77%) IaaS
5 3 (5.77%) PaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.92%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (73.08%) SAN
2 16 (30.77%) Firewall
3 14 (26.92%) DNS
4 6 (11.54%) DHCP
4 6 (11.54%) LAN
5 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.62%) VLAN
5 5 (9.62%) WAN
6 4 (7.69%) VPN
7 3 (5.77%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (5.77%) iSCSI
8 2 (3.85%) Internet
8 2 (3.85%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.85%) SSL
8 2 (3.85%) VSAN
9 1 (1.92%) DECT
9 1 (1.92%) MPLS
9 1 (1.92%) Skype
9 1 (1.92%) SSH
9 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Git
1 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.46%) GitLab
3 4 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Architect
2 7 (13.46%) Analyst
3 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Identity Management Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Migration Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Server Migration Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Server Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Server Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) Middleware
2 7 (13.46%) LDAP
3 5 (9.62%) SailPoint
4 2 (3.85%) Kafka
4 2 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (1.92%) .NET
5 1 (1.92%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.92%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Data Centre
2 9 (17.31%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (9.62%) Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Clustering
5 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (3.85%) CMDB
6 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.85%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.92%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.92%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.92%) PACS
7 1 (1.92%) PKI
7 1 (1.92%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 28 (53.85%) Linux
1 28 (53.85%) Windows
2 20 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.77%) CentOS
4 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.85%) Solaris
5 2 (3.85%) VMS
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.92%) AIX
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.92%) MVS
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Unix
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.00%) Migration
3 12 (23.08%) High Availability
4 11 (21.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (19.23%) Computer Science
6 9 (17.31%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (15.38%) Agile
8 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (13.46%) Kanban
8 7 (13.46%) Scrum
8 7 (13.46%) Storage Management
9 6 (11.54%) ITIL
10 5 (9.62%) Network Architecture
10 5 (9.62%) Performance Optimisation
11 4 (7.69%) Asset Management
11 4 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (7.69%) Use Case
12 3 (5.77%) Service Delivery
12 3 (5.77%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) PowerShell
2 11 (21.15%) Python
3 7 (13.46%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.62%) Bash
4 5 (9.62%) C++
4 5 (9.62%) SQL
5 2 (3.85%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) Degree
3 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.85%) CCNP
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.85%) VCAP
6 1 (1.92%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CCIE
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.92%) MCP
6 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (11.54%) GDPR
3 4 (7.69%) NIST
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.92%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (48.08%) Active Directory
1 25 (48.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (19.23%) Hyper-V
2 10 (19.23%) vSphere
3 8 (15.38%) VMware NSX
4 6 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.77%) Firmware
6 2 (3.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (3.85%) KVM
6 2 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.92%) NFS
7 1 (1.92%) SRDF
7 1 (1.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.92%) Xen
7 1 (1.92%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Ansible
2 9 (17.31%) vCenter Server
3 7 (13.46%) vRealize
4 4 (7.69%) SELinux
5 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.77%) SCCM
5 3 (5.77%) Terraform
6 2 (3.85%) Grafana
6 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.92%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (1.92%) Packer
7 1 (1.92%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.92%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) vMotion
7 1 (1.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.92%) VxRail
7 1 (1.92%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) VMware
2 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (23.08%) NetApp
4 11 (21.15%) Cisco
5 9 (17.31%) EMC
6 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
7 7 (13.46%) F5
8 6 (11.54%) Dell
8 6 (11.54%) Pure Storage
8 6 (11.54%) Splunk
9 5 (9.62%) Oracle
9 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
10 4 (7.69%) Veeam
11 3 (5.77%) HP
12 2 (3.85%) Citrix
12 2 (3.85%) Confluent
12 2 (3.85%) Isilon
12 2 (3.85%) Veritas
13 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
13 1 (1.92%) Snow