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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 142 179
Rank change year-on-year -52 +37 +31
Contract jobs citing NAS 36 17 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.61% 0.53% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.99% 3.13% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 3 4
10th Percentile £392 £366 £250
25th Percentile £413 £379 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £405 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% -26.36% +49.15%
75th Percentile £555 £454 £688
90th Percentile £592 £482 -
England median daily rate £534 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +24.07% -7.03% -7.50%

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 721 543 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.13% 16.96% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 329 458
10th Percentile £206 £192 £193
25th Percentile £366 £258 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £592
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 27
10th Percentile £16.01 £20.74 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.76 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +69.39% -0.44% +133.96%
75th Percentile £74.26 £41.50 £45.88
90th Percentile - - £48.75
England median hourly rate £42.25 £35.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% +71.05%

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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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -41 25 £451 +11.36% 6
North West -28 11 £575 - 7
NAS
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:

Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (91.67%) SAN
2 12 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 11 (30.56%) iSCSI
4 7 (19.44%) Firewall
4 7 (19.44%) VLAN
5 6 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
5 6 (16.67%) DHCP
5 6 (16.67%) DNS
5 6 (16.67%) NX-OS
5 6 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (16.67%) Wireless
6 2 (5.56%) VSAN
7 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.78%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Architect
2 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (8.33%) Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
3 3 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Storage Specialist
4 2 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Storage Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Storage Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Unix Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk Analyst
5 1 (2.78%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 1 (2.78%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Kafka
1 1 (2.78%) LDAP
1 1 (2.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (55.56%) Replication
2 12 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.56%) CMDB
4 2 (5.56%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) VMS
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 2 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.78%) AIX
4 1 (2.78%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Migration
2 16 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (41.67%) Capacity Planning
3 15 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (36.11%) Containerisation
5 12 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (25.00%) Data Protection
7 9 (25.00%) High Availability
8 8 (22.22%) ITSM
9 6 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
10 5 (13.89%) Observability
11 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 4 (11.11%) GitOps
11 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (11.11%) ITIL
11 4 (11.11%) Storage Management
11 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) Bash
2 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (19.44%) CCNA
2 7 (19.44%) CCNP
2 7 (19.44%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) Server+ Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.56%) VCAP
4 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) GRC
1 1 (2.78%) GxP
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) NFS
2 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.33%) vSphere
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (19.44%) Ansible
3 4 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 4 (11.11%) Terraform
4 3 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.56%) PowerCLI
5 2 (5.56%) vMotion
5 2 (5.56%) vRealize
6 1 (2.78%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.78%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (2.78%) SnapMirror
6 1 (2.78%) SnapVault
6 1 (2.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Cisco
2 11 (30.56%) NetApp
3 9 (25.00%) EMC
4 8 (22.22%) Pure Storage
5 6 (16.67%) IBM
5 6 (16.67%) ServiceNow
6 5 (13.89%) Brocade
6 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
7 4 (11.11%) Isilon
7 4 (11.11%) VMware
8 3 (8.33%) Commvault
9 2 (5.56%) 3PAR
9 2 (5.56%) Dell
9 2 (5.56%) Remedy
9 2 (5.56%) Veeam
10 1 (2.78%) Oracle
10 1 (2.78%) Splunk