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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 122 133
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +35
DemandTrendContract jobs citing NAS 5 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.041% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.64% 0.34% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £263
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £405
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +11.11% -4.71%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +25.00%
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% -24.08%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 305 298 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.76% 12.25% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 196 279
10th Percentile £147 £250 £300
25th Percentile £325 £398 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +8.42% -
75th Percentile £538 £678 £565
90th Percentile £675 £838 £635
England median daily rate £492 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 8
10th Percentile £22.40 £24.61 £15.72
25th Percentile £26.00 £35.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £66.50 £48.56 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.94% +194.30% -48.14%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.91 £25.03
90th Percentile £69.00 £62.80 £52.38
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.91
% change year-on-year -22.55% -1.84% +59.73%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing NAS

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing NAS

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DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cumbria - 4 - - 1
Cheshire - 1 £425 -
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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk