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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 164 180
Rank change year-on-year -29 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing NAS 6 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.18% 1.10% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile - £455 £363
25th Percentile £406 £461 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +11.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £431 £556 £438
90th Percentile £440 - -
England median daily rate £516 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +1.47% -3.10% +20.00%
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% -0.35%

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 507 544 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.92% 13.42% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 284 534
10th Percentile £170 £186 £263
25th Percentile £334 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £480 £483
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% -0.52% +7.22%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £669 £659
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 21
10th Percentile - £12.59 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £41.25 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +133.84% -13.23%
75th Percentile £38.46 £51.23 £26.78
90th Percentile £67.25 £51.91 £46.88
England median hourly rate £32.77 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -41.61% -0.65% +36.12%

NAS
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

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 22 October 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 -19 4 £413 -23.26% 2
North West -14 2 £425 -10.05% 1
NAS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) FCoE
4 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) Multicast
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Server Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) MVS
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Kanban
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) KVM
3 1 (16.67%) NFS
3 1 (16.67%) SRDF
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) vRealize
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) SELinux
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) F5
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk