NAS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring NAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 111 131
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing NAS 4 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.26% 0.43% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 3.21% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 10
10th Percentile - - £410
25th Percentile £413 - £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +2.33% -8.12%
75th Percentile £438 - £611
90th Percentile - - £623
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 198 218 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.98% 13.31% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 129 168
10th Percentile £196 £150 £305
25th Percentile £284 £313 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £553
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -20.81% +22.78%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £637
90th Percentile £675 £619 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 27
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile - £21.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £23.77 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +215.56% -60.39% +355.93%
75th Percentile - £43.22 £60.75
90th Percentile - £71.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.44 £33.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.77% -32.50% +150.00%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NAS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

NAS job vacancy trend in Scotland

NAS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NAS

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NAS

NAS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Glasgow +3 4 £425 -22.73% 1
NAS
UK

NAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Loki
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Deduplication
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Veritas