NAS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for NAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NAS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 428 436
Rank change year-on-year +99 +8 -73
Contract jobs citing NAS 56 28 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 0.80% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 19 42
10th Percentile £373 £208 £191
25th Percentile £413 £319 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £497
90th Percentile £725 £658 £611
UK median daily rate £488 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -11.36% +22.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year - +52.42% +164.83%
75th Percentile - - £42.20
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £60.55 £42.21
% change year-on-year -60.69% +43.46% +128.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

NAS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,339 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.27% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £200 £213 £185
25th Percentile £343 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 323 238
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

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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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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
South East +28 25 £438 -25.53% 10
Scotland +49 11 £538 -
East of England +7 6 £425 -41.38% 2
Midlands +32 5 £750 +244.83% 4
South West - 5 £500 - 1
North of England +24 4 £550 +41.94% 9
East Midlands +20 3 £750 +248.84% 3
Yorkshire +27 2 £675 +129.79% 3
West Midlands +26 2 £1,000 +207.69% 1
North West +18 1 £425 - 6
North East - 1 £180 -
NAS
UK

NAS
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 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.14%) IIS
3 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.57%) WordPress
4 1 (1.79%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.57%) AWS
5 2 (3.57%) GCP
5 2 (3.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.79%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 49 (87.50%) SAN
2 10 (17.86%) Firewall
3 9 (16.07%) DNS
4 7 (12.50%) DHCP
4 7 (12.50%) VLAN
5 6 (10.71%) 5G
5 6 (10.71%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (10.71%) iSCSI
5 6 (10.71%) VPN
6 5 (8.93%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.14%) SSL
7 4 (7.14%) VoIP
7 4 (7.14%) Wireshark
8 3 (5.36%) Wireless
9 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.79%) LAN
9 1 (1.79%) PBX
9 1 (1.79%) WAN
9 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.14%) MySQL
2 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) gcov
2 4 (7.14%) GDB
2 4 (7.14%) Gradle
2 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.93%) Banking
3 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
3 5 (8.93%) Multimedia
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Legal
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Finance
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) Storage Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Senior
4 9 (16.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Backup Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) C++ Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Developer
7 5 (8.93%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Support Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Senior Storage Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (3.57%) ADSI
2 2 (3.57%) LAMP
2 2 (3.57%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.14%) Fat Client
2 4 (7.14%) PKI
2 4 (7.14%) Thin Client
3 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.57%) Replication
3 2 (3.57%) Tandem
4 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.79%) Clustering
4 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (41.07%) Windows
2 17 (30.36%) Linux
3 12 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 8 (14.29%) Unix
4 8 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (10.71%) Ubuntu
5 6 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (7.14%) VMS
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (23.21%) Migration
3 11 (19.64%) Data Protection
4 8 (14.29%) ITIL
5 7 (12.50%) Data Deduplication
5 7 (12.50%) Database Migration
5 7 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (8.93%) Change Management
6 5 (8.93%) Observability
6 5 (8.93%) Security Management
7 4 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.14%) Customer Service
7 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (7.14%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 3 (5.36%) Creative Thinking
8 3 (5.36%) Patch Management
8 3 (5.36%) Proactive Management
8 3 (5.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Python
2 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.93%) C++
4 4 (7.14%) C
4 4 (7.14%) Perl
4 4 (7.14%) SQL
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 7 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) CCNA
3 5 (8.93%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (8.93%) MCSE
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) CCIE
6 1 (1.79%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (32.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (28.57%) vSphere
4 4 (7.14%) Firmware
4 4 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.36%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Ansible
2 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.93%) Avamar
3 5 (8.93%) Grafana
3 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
3 5 (8.93%) Terraform
3 5 (8.93%) WSUS
4 4 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (7.14%) Nessus
4 4 (7.14%) NetBackup
4 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (7.14%) vCenter Server
4 4 (7.14%) ZABBIX
5 3 (5.36%) SCCM
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (64.29%) VMware
2 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.00%) Dell
4 7 (12.50%) EMC
4 7 (12.50%) Veeam
5 5 (8.93%) Cisco
6 4 (7.14%) Citrix
6 4 (7.14%) HP
6 4 (7.14%) Klocwork
6 4 (7.14%) Oracle
6 4 (7.14%) Perforce
6 4 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.14%) Veritas
7 2 (3.57%) Aruba
7 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.57%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.57%) Synology
7 2 (3.57%) Zerto
8 1 (1.79%) Instagram
8 1 (1.79%) Nimble Storage