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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 151 180
Rank change year-on-year -51 +29 +45
Contract jobs citing NAS 10 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.75% 1.26% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £437 - -
25th Percentile £475 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £505 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% +18.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £514 £556 £438
90th Percentile £533 - £490
England median daily rate £550 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +22.22% -12.20% +20.59%

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 573 556 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.77% 16.65% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 325 507
10th Percentile £175 £163 £258
25th Percentile £313 £250 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.26% +1.88%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £588
90th Percentile £680 £665 £669
England median daily rate £488 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.42% -5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 19
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.19 £16.64
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.25 £24.76 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -7.54% +151.93%
75th Percentile £63.56 £41.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.30 £49.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +147.60%

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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 20 January 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 20 January 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 9 £487 -9.40% 10
North West -28 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 (10.00%) CICS
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Fibre Channel
1 9 (90.00%) iSCSI
1 9 (90.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) FCoE
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) Multicast
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Replication
2 8 (80.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) MVS
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) High Availability
2 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (70.00%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (70.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (60.00%) Migration
5 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
5 5 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
7 1 (10.00%) Server Virtualisation
7 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
7 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C++
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) NFS
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) KVM
2 1 (10.00%) SRDF
2 1 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) SELinux
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) EMC
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
1 6 (60.00%) NetApp
2 4 (40.00%) Pure Storage
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) VMware