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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 153 179
Rank change year-on-year -44 +26 +28
Contract jobs citing NAS 28 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.51% 0.27% 0.082%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.07% 1.45% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile £366 £414 £250
25th Percentile £408 £432 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £528 £492 £459
90th Percentile £588 £497 £499
England median daily rate £525 £430 £463
% change year-on-year +22.09% -7.03% +8.82%

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 688 620 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.48% 18.59% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 366 495
10th Percentile £200 £160 £200
25th Percentile £356 £243 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £583
90th Percentile £650 £650 £666
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 23
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.78 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.75 £20.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.67 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% +7.27% +116.37%
75th Percentile £74.26 £37.67 £45.88
90th Percentile - £41.50 £48.75
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +108.88%

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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 March 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 March 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 -43 21 £425 -6.08% 8
North West -21 7 £594 +25.61% 5
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England

NAS
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 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.57%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (89.29%) SAN
2 10 (35.71%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (32.14%) iSCSI
4 5 (17.86%) Firewall
4 5 (17.86%) VLAN
5 4 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (14.29%) DHCP
5 4 (14.29%) DNS
5 4 (14.29%) NX-OS
5 4 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (14.29%) Wireless
6 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
6 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Banking
2 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Advertising
3 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (10.71%) Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Architect
2 3 (10.71%) Network Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Banking Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Storage Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Storage Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Unix Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Backup Administrator
4 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Storage Administrator
4 1 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.57%) SAN Storage Administrator
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk Analyst
4 1 (3.57%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 1 (3.57%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Kafka
1 1 (3.57%) LDAP
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Replication
2 9 (32.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (25.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) CMDB
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) AIX
3 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Migration
2 12 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
4 10 (35.71%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 8 (28.57%) High Availability
5 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (17.86%) ITSM
8 4 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
8 4 (14.29%) Observability
8 4 (14.29%) Storage Management
9 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.71%) GitOps
9 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) Bash
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) CCNA
2 5 (17.86%) CCNP
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Server+ Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CISSP
5 1 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GRC
1 1 (3.57%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) NFS
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.29%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) NetBackup
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) NetApp
2 7 (25.00%) Cisco
2 7 (25.00%) EMC
3 6 (21.43%) IBM
3 6 (21.43%) Pure Storage
4 4 (14.29%) Isilon
4 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 3 (10.71%) Commvault
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) Brocade
6 2 (7.14%) Remedy
7 1 (3.57%) 3PAR
7 1 (3.57%) Dell
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle
7 1 (3.57%) Splunk
7 1 (3.57%) Veeam
7 1 (3.57%) VMware