NAS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring NAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing NAS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.066% - 0.063%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £425
75th Percentile £538 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £594 £473 £425
% change year-on-year +25.61% +11.18% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 101 117 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.71% 12.00% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 84 160
10th Percentile £190 £193 £246
25th Percentile £375 £323 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +4.05% -14.78%
75th Percentile £617 £513 £650
90th Percentile £670 £596 £750
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £14.29
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.42%
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £24.59 £26.00
% change year-on-year +202.05% -5.44% +7.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

NAS job vacancy trend in Manchester

NAS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NAS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing NAS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Isilon
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam