NAS Contracts in the South East

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 183 204
Rank change year-on-year +36 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing NAS 7 24 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.25% 2.05% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 6
10th Percentile £494 £360 £419
25th Percentile £498 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -16.28% +79.17%
75th Percentile £518 £469 £550
90th Percentile £530 £475 -
England median daily rate £508 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +9.73% -11.90% +16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 562 1,170 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.69% 20.56% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 565 590
10th Percentile £220 £210 £240
25th Percentile £325 £390 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £493 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 141 72
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.63 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.76 £36.75 £32.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -0.26% +125.49%
75th Percentile £58.72 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.56 £85.65 £78.97
England median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for NAS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NAS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Thames Valley +29 7 £504 +34.33% 8
Berkshire +19 5 £500 +33.33% 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Storage
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Skype
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 7 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) IT Support
1 1 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) NetApp
2 4 (57.14%) EMC
2 4 (57.14%) Pure Storage
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) Dell
5 1 (14.29%) Isilon
5 1 (14.29%) Veeam