NAS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring NAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 112 141
Rank change year-on-year -24 +29 -
Contract jobs citing NAS 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.041% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 2.14% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £470
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% - -
75th Percentile - £480 £480
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £470 £525
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 246 281 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.05% 14.40% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 176 256
10th Percentile £225 £275 £250
25th Percentile £343 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £607 £614 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 67
10th Percentile £21.81 £11.75 £44.09
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £48.32
Median hourly rate £46.25 £67.02 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -30.99% +18.64% +476.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.94
90th Percentile £64.85 - £75.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +121.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

NAS job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Somerset - 1 £550 -
NAS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware