NAS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 154 177
Rank change year-on-year -45 +23 +49
Contract jobs citing NAS 11 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.91% 1.26% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £404 - £401
25th Percentile £406 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £505 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +18.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £487 £556 £438
90th Percentile £491 - £490
England median daily rate £550 £470 £538
% change year-on-year +17.02% -12.56% +26.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 577 556 671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.15% 16.33% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 318 500
10th Percentile £170 £162 £258
25th Percentile £313 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £483
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.74% +3.21%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £593
90th Percentile £671 £654 £672
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 17
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £15.65
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.92 £17.22
Median hourly rate £27.00 £22.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.01% +0.59% +32.81%
75th Percentile £59.88 £41.50 £44.07
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.15 £48.13
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +112.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

NAS job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NAS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing NAS

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Yorkshire -44 10 £461 -14.23% 3
North West -32 1 - -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CICS
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) SAN
2 7 (63.64%) Fibre Channel
2 7 (63.64%) iSCSI
3 5 (45.45%) Firewall
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) FCoE
5 1 (9.09%) LAN
5 1 (9.09%) Multicast
5 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Server Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
2 2 (18.18%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Replication
2 6 (54.55%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
4 1 (9.09%) Clustering
4 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) VMS
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) MVS
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Solaris
4 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
2 7 (63.64%) High Availability
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (45.45%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
4 5 (45.45%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (36.36%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Kanban
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) Server Migrations
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
8 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) NFS
2 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
3 3 (27.27%) vSphere
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (9.09%) KVM
4 1 (9.09%) SRDF
4 1 (9.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (9.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
3 3 (27.27%) vRealize
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (9.09%) SELinux
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) EMC
1 6 (54.55%) IBM
1 6 (54.55%) NetApp
2 4 (36.36%) F5
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Pure Storage
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Google
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 1 (9.09%) Splunk