NAS Contracts in the North of England

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring NAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NAS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 181 210
Rank change year-on-year +32 +29 -2
Contract jobs citing NAS 17 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.084% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.08% 0.67% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile £366 £250 £256
25th Percentile £379 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £550 £369
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +49.15% -13.24%
75th Percentile £454 £688 £438
90th Percentile £482 - £448
England median daily rate £430 £463 £545
% change year-on-year -7.03% -15.14% +21.11%

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 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for NAS in the North of England

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NAS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the North of England

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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 1 May 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 +18 12 £405 -40.00% 4
North West +21 5 - - 5
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England

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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 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) SSL
3 3 (17.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Consultant
1 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Unix Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Middleware
2 7 (41.18%) LDAP
3 4 (23.53%) Kafka
3 4 (23.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Windows
3 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (17.65%) Unix
5 2 (11.76%) AIX
5 2 (11.76%) CentOS
5 2 (11.76%) HPUX
5 2 (11.76%) Solaris
5 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) High Availability
2 7 (41.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Kanban
5 4 (23.53%) Key Management
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Network Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Use Case
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Information Management
7 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
7 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
7 2 (11.76%) Storage Management
7 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
1 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
2 4 (23.53%) vSphere
3 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.76%) KVM
5 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Ansible
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
2 4 (23.53%) vCenter Server
2 4 (23.53%) vRealize
3 3 (17.65%) Puppet
3 3 (17.65%) SELinux
4 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.88%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (5.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Splunk
2 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) Confluent
5 3 (17.65%) NetApp
6 2 (11.76%) EMC
7 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (5.88%) Brocade
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco
7 1 (5.88%) Dell
7 1 (5.88%) HP
7 1 (5.88%) Pure Storage
7 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.88%) Veritas