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

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 168 198
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +46
DemandTrendContract jobs citing NAS 10 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.70% 1.28% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 7
10th Percentile £383 £398 £438
25th Percentile £496 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -20.45% +182.05%
75th Percentile £544 £455 -
90th Percentile £555 £471 £638
England median daily rate £550 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +25.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 589 940 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.70% 19.51% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 507 615
10th Percentile £220 £253 £209
25th Percentile £361 £400 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £459
Median % change year-on-year - +8.93% +0.84%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £579
90th Percentile £638 £663 £675
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 100 59
10th Percentile £14.20 £25.90 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.63 £51.06 £21.60
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +31.63%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £72.13
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.02 £75.67
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.16
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.52% +57.60%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NAS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in the South East over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing NAS

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DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
Thames Valley +15 7 £504 +34.33% 8
Berkshire +15 5 £500 +33.33% 3
Hampshire - 2 £385 - 7
Kent - 1 £550 - 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 4
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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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Skype
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) VSAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Analyst
1 1 (10.00%) Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
1 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (10.00%) IT Support
1 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (10.00%) Lead
1 1 (10.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
1 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) MCP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) vSphere
4 1 (10.00%) Firmware
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) EMC
1 5 (50.00%) NetApp
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Pure Storage
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) F5
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Dell
4 1 (10.00%) Isilon
4 1 (10.00%) Veeam