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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 162 189
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 +24
Contract jobs citing NAS 14 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.35% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.86% 1.22% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £376 £456 £263
25th Percentile £406 £476 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £538 £415
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +29.52% -2.35%
75th Percentile £425 £655 £438
90th Percentile £438 £688 -
England median daily rate £538 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.83
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £47.83
% change year-on-year - -50.24% -24.08%

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 489 492 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.39% 12.01% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 284 486
10th Percentile £160 £213 £231
25th Percentile £325 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £474
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +8.18% +5.28%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £587
90th Percentile £638 £780 £650
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £39.00 £19.82
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% +96.77% -7.81%
75th Percentile £59.88 £51.23 £40.07
90th Percentile £67.25 £52.20 £47.16
England median hourly rate £41.48 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.68% +1.52% +34.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for NAS 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

NAS
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

NAS
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 16 September 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
Yorkshire -9 9 £413 -31.96% 4
North West -8 5 £425 -7.86%
NAS
England

NAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (7.14%) CICS
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) SAN
2 8 (57.14%) Firewall
3 7 (50.00%) DNS
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (7.14%) FCoE
4 1 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) Multicast
4 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Git
1 7 (50.00%) GitLab
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Server Migration Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Server Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Middleware
2 5 (35.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) Windows
3 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (14.29%) VMS
6 1 (7.14%) MVS
6 1 (7.14%) Solaris
6 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Kanban
1 7 (50.00%) Migration
1 7 (50.00%) Scrum
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Use Case
4 3 (21.43%) Server Migrations
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Information Management
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Shell Script
3 4 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 7 (50.00%) vSphere
3 6 (42.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (7.14%) KVM
5 1 (7.14%) NFS
5 1 (7.14%) SRDF
5 1 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 7 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 7 (50.00%) vRealize
3 4 (28.57%) SELinux
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) F5
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 4 (28.57%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) EMC
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Pure Storage