NAS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 336 426
Rank change year-on-year +44 +90 +26
Contract jobs citing NAS 42 58 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.12% 1.70% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 46 20
10th Percentile £356 £375 £209
25th Percentile £414 £413 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% +8.82% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £541
90th Percentile - £719 £648
UK median daily rate £486 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +2.37% -13.64% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -60.69% +43.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,977 3,409 3,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.48% 16.47% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,953 2,274
10th Percentile £194 £203 £210
25th Percentile £303 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 359 327
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for NAS in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NAS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North of England +24 17 £405 -26.36% 11
Yorkshire +18 12 £405 -40.00% 4
Scotland +11 11 £525 -2.33% 1
North West +14 5 - - 6
East of England +36 4 £430 +1.18% 3
Midlands +17 4 - - 5
South East +15 4 £340 -22.29% 22
West Midlands +15 4 - - 3
South West +25 2 £875 +75.00% 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 15 (35.71%) OpenShift
3 11 (26.19%) Amazon S3
3 11 (26.19%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (23.81%) AWS
5 6 (14.29%) Cohesity
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 34 (80.95%) SAN
2 9 (21.43%) LAN
3 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 5 (11.90%) Firewall
4 5 (11.90%) WAN
5 4 (9.52%) DNS
5 4 (9.52%) SSL
6 3 (7.14%) LTE
7 2 (4.76%) Wireless
8 1 (2.38%) Internet
8 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.38%) IP Telephony
8 1 (2.38%) MPLS
8 1 (2.38%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.38%) Network Security
8 1 (2.38%) Skype
8 1 (2.38%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.38%) VLAN
8 1 (2.38%) VoIP
8 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Git
2 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) GitLab
3 4 (9.52%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.14%) Eclipse
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Administrator
3 4 (9.52%) DevOps Administrator
3 4 (9.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Consultant
4 3 (7.14%) NetBackup Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Senior
4 3 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Developer
5 2 (4.76%) IT Support
5 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) LDAP
2 8 (19.05%) Middleware
3 4 (9.52%) Kafka
3 4 (9.52%) REST
4 3 (7.14%) XML
4 3 (7.14%) XML Schema
5 1 (2.38%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.52%) Clustering
2 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.38%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 27 (64.29%) Windows
2 26 (61.90%) Windows Server
3 19 (45.24%) Linux
4 14 (33.33%) Unix
5 6 (14.29%) Ubuntu
6 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.76%) AIX
7 2 (4.76%) CentOS
7 2 (4.76%) HPUX
7 2 (4.76%) Solaris
8 1 (2.38%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 12 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 11 (26.19%) Data Deduplication
3 11 (26.19%) Observability
4 10 (23.81%) Decision-Making
4 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.05%) High Availability
5 8 (19.05%) Task Automation
6 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (16.67%) Security Hardening
7 6 (14.29%) Problem Management
7 6 (14.29%) Storage Management
8 5 (11.90%) DevOps
8 5 (11.90%) ITIL
8 5 (11.90%) Migration
8 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Agile
9 4 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.14%) C#
4 3 (7.14%) C++
5 2 (4.76%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) Perl
6 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCNP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) HP ASE
4 1 (2.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.90%) vSphere
4 4 (9.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (9.52%) VMware NSX
5 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (4.76%) KVM
7 1 (2.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.38%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (2.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.19%) NetBackup
2 11 (26.19%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (16.67%) Ansible
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
4 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.52%) vCenter Server
4 4 (9.52%) vRealize
5 3 (7.14%) Puppet
5 3 (7.14%) SELinux
6 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.38%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (2.38%) SCCM
7 1 (2.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) VMware
2 12 (28.57%) Veritas
3 11 (26.19%) Red Hat
4 8 (19.05%) Splunk
5 7 (16.67%) NetApp
6 5 (11.90%) Dell
6 5 (11.90%) Oracle
7 4 (9.52%) Confluent
8 2 (4.76%) Cisco
8 2 (4.76%) EMC
8 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
9 1 (2.38%) Brocade
9 1 (2.38%) Citrix
9 1 (2.38%) F5
9 1 (2.38%) HP
9 1 (2.38%) Pure Storage
9 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow