Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 651 720
Rank change year-on-year +145 +69 -156
Contract jobs citing NAS 92 68 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.64% 0.92% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 45 97
10th Percentile £360 £318 £261
25th Percentile £413 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.76% +21.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £540
90th Percentile £750 £768 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +8.82% - +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £37.99
25th Percentile - - £39.11
Median hourly rate £23.80 £60.55 £42.21
Median % change year-on-year -60.69% +43.46% +91.85%
75th Percentile - - £44.07
90th Percentile - - £44.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.55 £39.73
% change year-on-year - +52.42% +114.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 15 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 27 April 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
England +147 81 £463 -15.14% 35
UK excluding London +92 57 £463 +8.82% 28
London +97 31 £632 +5.29% 10
Work from Home +138 25 £425 - 12
South East +43 25 £438 -20.45% 9
Scotland +39 10 £538 -
South West - 7 £500 - 4
East of England +19 6 £425 -41.38% 1
Midlands +24 5 £750 +244.83% 2
North of England +27 4 £550 +49.15% 10
East Midlands +19 3 £750 +248.84% 1
West Midlands +30 2 £1,000 +207.69% 1
Yorkshire +20 2 £675 +129.79% 4
North West +9 1 £425 +9.68% 6
North East - 1 £180 -

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 17 (18.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.70%) Confluence
2 8 (8.70%) IIS
3 7 (7.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.26%) WordPress
5 1 (1.09%) Site Server
5 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.35%) Azure
2 17 (18.48%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (14.13%) Nutanix
5 12 (13.04%) GCP
6 11 (11.96%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (11.96%) Rubrik
6 11 (11.96%) SaaS
7 10 (10.87%) PaaS
8 9 (9.78%) IaaS
9 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (3.26%) OneDrive
12 2 (2.17%) Mimecast
13 1 (1.09%) GitHub
13 1 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (90.22%) SAN
2 27 (29.35%) DNS
3 22 (23.91%) DHCP
3 22 (23.91%) Firewall
4 21 (22.83%) TCP/IP
4 21 (22.83%) VLAN
5 10 (10.87%) LAN
5 10 (10.87%) VPN
6 9 (9.78%) Kerberos
7 8 (8.70%) WAN
8 7 (7.61%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (7.61%) iSCSI
9 6 (6.52%) 5G
9 6 (6.52%) BGP
9 6 (6.52%) OSPF
9 6 (6.52%) Wireless
10 5 (5.43%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (5.43%) SSL
10 5 (5.43%) VoIP
11 4 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.52%) MySQL
2 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (19.57%) Git
2 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.04%) JIRA
4 8 (8.70%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.35%) gcov
5 4 (4.35%) GDB
5 4 (4.35%) Gradle
5 4 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.96%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.70%) Finance
4 6 (6.52%) Mandarin Language
4 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Banking
5 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.43%) Multimedia
6 3 (3.26%) Legal
7 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 30 (32.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (16.30%) Storage Engineer
3 11 (11.96%) Senior
4 9 (9.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.61%) Backup Engineer
5 7 (7.61%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) C++ Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Developer
7 5 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Exchange Specialist
8 4 (4.35%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) LDAP
2 5 (5.43%) REST
3 3 (3.26%) LAMP
4 2 (2.17%) ADSI
4 2 (2.17%) Middleware
4 2 (2.17%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.09%) .NET
5 1 (1.09%) OAuth
5 1 (1.09%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.09%) OpenID
5 1 (1.09%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.09%) SAML
5 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Clustering
2 13 (14.13%) Replication
3 12 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 10 (10.87%) PKI
5 8 (8.70%) Fat Client
5 8 (8.70%) Thin Client
6 6 (6.52%) CCTV
6 6 (6.52%) Management Information System
6 6 (6.52%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.17%) Tandem
9 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (58.70%) Windows
2 38 (41.30%) Windows Server
3 37 (40.22%) Linux
4 12 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (11.96%) Unix
6 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (10.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (8.70%) Solaris
8 7 (7.61%) Ubuntu
9 5 (5.43%) VMS
10 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (18.48%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (18.48%) Migration
3 16 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 14 (15.22%) High Availability
5 13 (14.13%) Data Protection
5 13 (14.13%) ITIL
6 12 (13.04%) Security Hardening
7 11 (11.96%) Data Security
8 10 (10.87%) Agile
8 10 (10.87%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (10.87%) Storage Management
9 9 (9.78%) DevOps
10 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.70%) Data Deduplication
10 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (7.61%) Cost Optimisation
11 7 (7.61%) Database Migration
11 7 (7.61%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 21 (22.83%) Python
3 8 (8.70%) Bash
4 6 (6.52%) SQL
5 5 (5.43%) C++
5 5 (5.43%) Perl
6 4 (4.35%) C
7 1 (1.09%) C#
7 1 (1.09%) Java
7 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.09%) Ruby
7 1 (1.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (17.39%) Degree
2 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (7.61%) MCSE
5 5 (5.43%) CCNA
5 5 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) CCIE
7 1 (1.09%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) GDPR
1 8 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (46.74%) Active Directory
2 40 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (20.65%) vSphere
4 14 (15.22%) Hyper-V
5 8 (8.70%) Docker
6 5 (5.43%) KVM
6 5 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.35%) Firmware
8 2 (2.17%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.09%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 20 (21.74%) Ansible
2 19 (20.65%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.39%) Terraform
4 8 (8.70%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (8.70%) Netcool
4 8 (8.70%) SCCM
4 8 (8.70%) Tivoli
4 8 (8.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (7.61%) NetBackup
6 6 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (6.52%) Grafana
6 6 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.52%) WSUS
7 5 (5.43%) Avamar
7 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (5.43%) vCenter Server
8 4 (4.35%) Nessus
8 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (4.35%) VxRail
8 4 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (64.13%) VMware
2 38 (41.30%) Microsoft
3 28 (30.43%) Dell
4 18 (19.57%) HP
5 16 (17.39%) EMC
6 15 (16.30%) Cisco
7 13 (14.13%) Oracle
8 9 (9.78%) CyberArk
8 9 (9.78%) IBM
8 9 (9.78%) Red Hat
9 8 (8.70%) Isilon
9 8 (8.70%) Qualys
9 8 (8.70%) Serena
9 8 (8.70%) ServiceNow
9 8 (8.70%) Splunk
9 8 (8.70%) Veeam
10 6 (6.52%) Huawei
11 5 (5.43%) Citrix
11 5 (5.43%) Veritas
12 4 (4.35%) Perforce