NAS Contracts in the North West

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 115 136 149
Rank change year-on-year +21 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing NAS 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.036% 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 0.27% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £306
25th Percentile - £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year - +9.68% -8.82%
75th Percentile - £438 £438
90th Percentile - - £468
England median daily rate £430 £463 £545
% change year-on-year -7.03% -15.14% +21.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 327 364 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.62% 13.21% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 253 298
10th Percentile £185 £199 £288
25th Percentile £300 £319 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £575
90th Percentile £600 £825 £650
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.72 £17.92
25th Percentile £21.12 £18.48 £19.17
Median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%
75th Percentile £25.47 £45.88 £51.45
90th Percentile £25.90 £83.76 £52.13
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 West

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for NAS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cumbria - 5 - -
NAS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) CentOS
3 2 (40.00%) HPUX
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Information Management
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) KVM
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SELinux
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Splunk
3 2 (40.00%) VMware