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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 343 388
Rank change year-on-year +5 +45 +43
Contract jobs citing NAS 39 33 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.77% 1.19% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 23
10th Percentile £406 £388 £325
25th Percentile £447 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £525 £513 £550
90th Percentile £543 £625 £718
UK median daily rate £504 £466 £550
% change year-on-year +8.04% -15.23% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.10
25th Percentile - - £51.01
Median hourly rate - - £54.19
75th Percentile - - £57.37
90th Percentile - - £59.28
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £54.19
% change year-on-year - -56.08% +4.64%

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 2,209 2,780 3,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.44% 15.14% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,638 2,161
10th Percentile £200 £205 £205
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 282 186
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.69 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.84% -6.63% +118.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.55
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +53.85%

NAS
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

NAS
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 August 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

NAS
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 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +6 19 £419 -25.56% 3
Yorkshire +4 14 £413 -38.89%
South East +19 8 £508 +12.78% 14
Scotland -4 6 £500 -
North West +6 5 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands - 3 - - 4
Midlands - 3 - - 5
East of England +7 2 - - 4
South West +13 1 £875 +75.00% 1
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 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) CICS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 14 (35.90%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) OpenShift
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 6 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (15.38%) Cohesity
5 5 (12.82%) GCP
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Storage
7 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.56%) GitHub
9 1 (2.56%) IaaS
9 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (82.05%) SAN
2 12 (30.77%) Firewall
3 8 (20.51%) DNS
4 4 (10.26%) LAN
5 3 (7.69%) SSL
6 2 (5.13%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (5.13%) iSCSI
6 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.13%) VLAN
6 2 (5.13%) WAN
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.56%) FCoE
7 1 (2.56%) Internet
7 1 (2.56%) MPLS
7 1 (2.56%) Multicast
7 1 (2.56%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.56%) Skype
7 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Git
1 13 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.95%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) NetBackup Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Server Migration Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Server Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Support Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Middleware
2 8 (20.51%) LDAP
3 3 (7.69%) Kafka
3 3 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.26%) Clustering
3 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Replication
5 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.56%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (58.97%) Windows
2 21 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 19 (48.72%) Linux
4 6 (15.38%) Unix
5 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.13%) VMS
7 1 (2.56%) CentOS
7 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.56%) MVS
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.56%) Solaris
7 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (20.51%) Agile
4 8 (20.51%) Migration
5 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.95%) Data Protection
5 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
5 7 (17.95%) High Availability
5 7 (17.95%) Kanban
5 7 (17.95%) Scrum
5 7 (17.95%) Storage Management
6 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.38%) Data Deduplication
6 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (15.38%) Task Automation
7 5 (12.82%) Network Architecture
7 5 (12.82%) Observability
8 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.95%) Shell Script
4 4 (10.26%) C++
5 3 (7.69%) SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) HP ASE
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
3 9 (23.08%) vSphere
4 7 (17.95%) VMware NSX
5 6 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (12.82%) Hyper-V
7 3 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (5.13%) Firmware
8 2 (5.13%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (2.56%) KVM
9 1 (2.56%) NFS
9 1 (2.56%) SRDF
9 1 (2.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (2.56%) Xen
9 1 (2.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Ansible
2 8 (20.51%) vCenter Server
3 7 (17.95%) vRealize
4 6 (15.38%) NetBackup
4 6 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (10.26%) SELinux
6 3 (7.69%) Grafana
6 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.69%) SCCM
7 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.56%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (2.56%) Puppet
7 1 (2.56%) Terraform
7 1 (2.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) VMware
2 8 (20.51%) NetApp
3 7 (17.95%) EMC
3 7 (17.95%) Splunk
4 6 (15.38%) F5
4 6 (15.38%) Pure Storage
4 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 6 (15.38%) Veritas
5 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.82%) Oracle
6 4 (10.26%) Cisco
6 4 (10.26%) Dell
7 3 (7.69%) Confluent
7 3 (7.69%) Veeam
8 2 (5.13%) Citrix
8 2 (5.13%) HP
9 1 (2.56%) Aruba
9 1 (2.56%) Google
9 1 (2.56%) IBM
9 1 (2.56%) Isilon