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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 147 176
Rank change year-on-year -42 +29 +13
Contract jobs citing NAS 53 18 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.80% 0.54% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.42% 3.35% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 4 5
10th Percentile £407 £370 £273
25th Percentile £447 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £415 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -7.78% +16.13%
75th Percentile £589 £444 £688
90th Percentile £617 £478 -
England median daily rate £538 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +19.44% -2.70% -11.90%

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 826 538 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.54% 16.15% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 322 374
10th Percentile £308 £185 £200
25th Percentile £385 £288 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £612
90th Percentile £650 £625 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 1 27
10th Percentile £17.99 - £13.42
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £22.81 £24.59 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -5.44% +144.59%
75th Percentile £25.77 £26.19 £45.94
90th Percentile £42.62 - £49.65
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +135.29%

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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 2 June 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 2 June 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 30 £478 +18.02% 3
North West -23 23 £608 +43.06% 5
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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 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) OpenShift
2 6 (11.32%) Azure
3 4 (7.55%) GitHub
3 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.66%) AWS
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Storage
5 2 (3.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (94.34%) SAN
2 17 (32.08%) Firewall
2 17 (32.08%) Structured Cabling
2 17 (32.08%) VLAN
2 17 (32.08%) Wireless
3 16 (30.19%) Cisco IOS
3 16 (30.19%) DHCP
3 16 (30.19%) DNS
3 16 (30.19%) NX-OS
4 14 (26.42%) Fibre Channel
5 11 (20.75%) iSCSI
6 4 (7.55%) VSAN
7 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.89%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 28 (52.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Advertising
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) Architect
2 7 (13.21%) Network Architect
2 7 (13.21%) Senior
2 7 (13.21%) Technical Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Storage Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Automation Specialist
5 3 (5.66%) Backup Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.66%) SAN Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) SAN Storage Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Storage Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Storage Specialist
6 2 (3.77%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) Kafka
1 1 (1.89%) LDAP
1 1 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (49.06%) Replication
2 24 (45.28%) Data Centre
3 16 (30.19%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (9.43%) EMC VMAX
5 4 (7.55%) EMC VNX
6 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.77%) CMDB
6 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Clustering
7 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
1 7 (13.21%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Data ONTAP
3 3 (5.66%) AIX
3 3 (5.66%) VMS
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.77%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.77%) Unix
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Migration
2 20 (37.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (37.74%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (33.96%) Capacity Planning
4 17 (32.08%) ITSM
5 16 (30.19%) Network Segmentation
6 15 (28.30%) Containerisation
7 12 (22.64%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (18.87%) Data Protection
8 10 (18.87%) High Availability
8 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (18.87%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (15.09%) Storage Management
10 7 (13.21%) Observability
11 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
11 6 (11.32%) DevOps
11 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (9.43%) Runbook
13 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Automation
13 4 (7.55%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) Python
2 7 (13.21%) Bash
2 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 16 (30.19%) CCNA
3 16 (30.19%) CCNP
3 16 (30.19%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (28.30%) Network+ Certification
4 15 (28.30%) Server+ Certification
5 5 (9.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.66%) NCDA
6 3 (5.66%) NCIE
7 2 (3.77%) Degree
7 2 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.77%) VCAP
8 1 (1.89%) CISSP
8 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) GRC
1 1 (1.89%) GxP
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) NFS
2 7 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (11.32%) vSphere
4 5 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.66%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (5.66%) Firmware
5 3 (5.66%) SRDF
6 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.98%) Ansible
3 6 (11.32%) NetBackup
3 6 (11.32%) Terraform
3 6 (11.32%) vCenter Server
4 4 (7.55%) EMC VPLEX
4 4 (7.55%) SnapMirror
5 3 (5.66%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (5.66%) SnapVault
5 3 (5.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Argo
6 2 (3.77%) Grafana
6 2 (3.77%) PowerCLI
6 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.77%) vMotion
6 2 (3.77%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (52.83%) Cisco
2 15 (28.30%) NetApp
2 15 (28.30%) ServiceNow
3 12 (22.64%) EMC
4 11 (20.75%) Pure Storage
5 10 (18.87%) Brocade
5 10 (18.87%) VMware
6 8 (15.09%) IBM
7 6 (11.32%) Dell
8 5 (9.43%) 3PAR
8 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
9 4 (7.55%) Isilon
9 4 (7.55%) Veeam
10 3 (5.66%) Commvault
10 3 (5.66%) Red Hat
11 2 (3.77%) Remedy
11 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.89%) Oracle
12 1 (1.89%) Splunk