NAS Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing NAS 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.68% 0.50% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.74% 2.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - £473 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.18% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 42 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 24.66% 20.79% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 13
10th Percentile £130 £140 £155
25th Percentile £138 £163 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £163 £215 £225
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% -4.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £323 £513 £325
90th Percentile £345 £538 £413
North West median daily rate £478 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +5.52% -9.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.15%
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.67 £41.23
% change year-on-year +69.99% -40.16% +99.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

NAS job vacancy trend in Merseyside

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Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing NAS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing NAS

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Liverpool - 2 - -
NAS
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Banking Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Unix Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk