NAS Contracts

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 507 646
Rank change year-on-year +54 +139 +80
Contract jobs citing NAS 66 93 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.77% 1.65% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 60 44
10th Percentile £278 £361 £316
25th Percentile £355 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £473 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% -13.70% +21.67%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £638
90th Percentile £633 £750 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +5.14% +8.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -60.69% +43.46%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.55
% change year-on-year - - +52.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

NAS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS.

Daily rate trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in the UK

NAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NAS.

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the UK

NAS
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +31 50 £430 -7.03% 47
UK excluding London +39 42 £486 +5.14% 39
London +22 19 £538 -14.00% 16
North of England +41 17 £405 -26.36% 10
Yorkshire +25 12 £405 -40.00% 3
Scotland +10 11 £525 -2.33% 1
Work from Home +34 10 £600 +41.18% 29
North West +15 5 - - 5
East of England +31 4 £430 +1.18% 3
Midlands +23 4 - - 4
South East +22 4 £340 -22.29% 12
West Midlands +18 4 - - 3
South West +40 2 £875 +75.00% 3

NAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (10.61%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.58%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (22.73%) OpenShift
3 13 (19.70%) AWS
3 13 (19.70%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 6 (9.09%) Cohesity
6 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.03%) IaaS
8 2 (3.03%) PaaS
8 2 (3.03%) SaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.52%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.52%) GCP
9 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.52%) Route 53
9 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.52%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 50 (75.76%) SAN
2 10 (15.15%) TCP/IP
3 9 (13.64%) LAN
4 8 (12.12%) Firewall
5 7 (10.61%) DNS
6 6 (9.09%) VLAN
6 6 (9.09%) WAN
7 4 (6.06%) SSL
8 3 (4.55%) DHCP
8 3 (4.55%) LTE
8 3 (4.55%) VPN
9 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.03%) VoIP
9 2 (3.03%) Wireless
10 1 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.52%) IP Telephony
10 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
10 1 (1.52%) Skype
10 1 (1.52%) VSAN
10 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.52%) Big Data
3 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.52%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (24.24%) Git
2 15 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.12%) JIRA
4 4 (6.06%) GitLab
5 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.55%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Finance
4 9 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 7 (10.61%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.58%) Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Telecoms
7 4 (6.06%) Electronics
7 4 (6.06%) Marketing
7 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (21.21%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Windows Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Server Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 5 (7.58%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) DevOps Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Linux Server Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Linux Specialist
8 4 (6.06%) Server Specialist
8 4 (6.06%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (6.06%) Unix Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (6.06%) Windows Specialist
9 3 (4.55%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) LDAP
2 8 (12.12%) Middleware
3 5 (7.58%) SailPoint
4 4 (6.06%) Kafka
4 4 (6.06%) REST
5 3 (4.55%) XML
5 3 (4.55%) XML Schema
6 1 (1.52%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.61%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 5 (7.58%) Clustering
3 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (6.06%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (3.03%) Replication
6 1 (1.52%) FlexPod
6 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (60.61%) Windows
2 35 (53.03%) Windows Server
3 31 (46.97%) Linux
4 18 (27.27%) Unix
5 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (10.61%) Ubuntu
7 5 (7.58%) Windows 10
8 4 (6.06%) Solaris
9 3 (4.55%) AIX
9 3 (4.55%) CentOS
9 3 (4.55%) HPUX
10 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.52%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (21.21%) Data Protection
3 14 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (21.21%) Observability
3 14 (21.21%) Task Automation
4 13 (19.70%) Storage Management
5 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.18%) High Availability
6 11 (16.67%) Data Deduplication
6 11 (16.67%) ITIL
7 10 (15.15%) Decision-Making
8 8 (12.12%) Security Hardening
9 7 (10.61%) Migration
9 7 (10.61%) Penetration Testing
9 7 (10.61%) Problem Management
10 6 (9.09%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.09%) DevOps
10 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (7.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 28 (42.42%) Python
2 17 (25.76%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.61%) Bash
3 7 (10.61%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.06%) C#
5 3 (4.55%) C++
5 3 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) Degree
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CCNP
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.52%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.52%) MCP
6 1 (1.52%) NCSIE
6 1 (1.52%) VCAP
6 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.52%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (39.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 9 (13.64%) vSphere
4 7 (10.61%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 4 (6.06%) KVM
5 4 (6.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (6.06%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.06%) VMware NSX
6 3 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.03%) NFS
8 1 (1.52%) Docker
8 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.52%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (1.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (19.70%) Ansible
3 11 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 11 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (9.09%) Puppet
5 4 (6.06%) Grafana
5 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.06%) vCenter Server
5 4 (6.06%) vRealize
6 3 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.55%) SELinux
7 2 (3.03%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.03%) Terraform
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (1.52%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.52%) SnapMirror
8 1 (1.52%) SnapVault
8 1 (1.52%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (1.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (46.97%) VMware
2 16 (24.24%) Veritas
3 15 (22.73%) Red Hat
4 12 (18.18%) NetApp
4 12 (18.18%) Splunk
5 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
5 10 (15.15%) ServiceNow
6 9 (13.64%) EMC
7 8 (12.12%) Dell
7 8 (12.12%) Oracle
8 6 (9.09%) Cisco
9 4 (6.06%) AppDynamics
9 4 (6.06%) Confluent
9 4 (6.06%) SAP
10 3 (4.55%) HP
11 1 (1.52%) Citrix
11 1 (1.52%) IBM
11 1 (1.52%) McAfee
11 1 (1.52%) Sybase
11 1 (1.52%) Symantec