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

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 513 560
Rank change year-on-year +22 +47 +150
Contract jobs citing NAS 60 60 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% 1.26% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 39 55
10th Percentile £400 £398 £340
25th Percentile £447 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £630 £605 £681
90th Percentile £715 £658 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £470 £425
% change year-on-year +5.53% +10.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £49.10
25th Percentile - - £51.01
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £54.19
Median % change year-on-year - -56.08% +33.56%
75th Percentile - - £57.37
90th Percentile - - £59.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.19
% change year-on-year - - +83.46%

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 3,941 4,759 6,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 12.25% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,365 2,897 4,334
10th Percentile £247 £220 £228
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £622
90th Percentile £675 £688 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 321 250
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.09
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £21.43
Median hourly rate £45.63 £48.56 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% -10.07% +54.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.73 £73.75 £75.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £56.91
% change year-on-year -22.55% -3.58% +100.32%

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 15 August 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 15 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
England +14 51 £538 +7.50% 58
UK excluding London -1 38 £496 +5.53% 35
London +8 18 £623 +13.18% 25
North of England -8 18 £419 -22.09% 10
Work from Home +17 17 £500 +11.11% 33
Yorkshire -9 13 £413 -31.96% 2
South East +22 9 £504 +11.94% 22
Scotland +2 6 £500 -
North West -2 5 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England +10 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 2
South West +19 1 £875 +75.00%

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 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) CICS
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.67%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) AWS
3 9 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 7 (11.67%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (10.00%) Cohesity
7 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.33%) GCP
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Storage
8 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.00%) IaaS
9 3 (5.00%) PaaS
10 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (73.33%) SAN
2 17 (28.33%) Firewall
3 15 (25.00%) DNS
4 7 (11.67%) DHCP
5 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (8.33%) LAN
6 5 (8.33%) VLAN
6 5 (8.33%) VPN
6 5 (8.33%) WAN
7 3 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (5.00%) iSCSI
8 2 (3.33%) Internet
8 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.33%) SSL
8 2 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (3.33%) VSAN
9 1 (1.67%) DECT
9 1 (1.67%) MPLS
9 1 (1.67%) Skype
9 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) Big Data
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Git
1 14 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.67%) GitLab
3 4 (6.67%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Banking
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (13.33%) Architect
1 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (11.67%) Analyst
3 5 (8.33%) Consultant
3 5 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
4 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (5.00%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Identity Management Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) NetBackup Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Server Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.00%) Server Specialist
6 2 (3.33%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Cloud Specialist
6 2 (3.33%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Middleware
2 7 (11.67%) LDAP
3 5 (8.33%) SailPoint
4 2 (3.33%) Kafka
4 2 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (1.67%) .NET
5 1 (1.67%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.67%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.67%) Regular Expression
5 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Management Information System
2 10 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.33%) Replication
4 4 (6.67%) Clustering
5 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (3.33%) CMDB
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.67%) ASIC
7 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.67%) FPGA
7 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.67%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.67%) PACS
7 1 (1.67%) PKI
7 1 (1.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 34 (56.67%) Windows
2 27 (45.00%) Linux
3 26 (43.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (11.67%) Unix
6 3 (5.00%) CentOS
6 3 (5.00%) VMS
6 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.33%) Solaris
7 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.67%) AIX
8 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.67%) MVS
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.67%) Windows XP
8 1 (1.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (25.00%) Migration
3 12 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (20.00%) High Availability
4 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 9 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (13.33%) Agile
6 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 8 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 8 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (11.67%) ITIL
7 7 (11.67%) Kanban
7 7 (11.67%) Scrum
8 6 (10.00%) Data Deduplication
8 6 (10.00%) Storage Management
9 5 (8.33%) Observability
9 5 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 17 (28.33%) Python
3 7 (11.67%) Shell Script
4 5 (8.33%) Bash
4 5 (8.33%) C++
4 5 (8.33%) SQL
5 2 (3.33%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) Degree
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.33%) CCNP
7 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.33%) VCAP
8 1 (1.67%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.67%) CCIE
8 1 (1.67%) CCNA
8 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.67%) HP ASE
8 1 (1.67%) MCP
8 1 (1.67%) MCSA
8 1 (1.67%) MCSE
8 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.00%) GDPR
3 4 (6.67%) NIST
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 25 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (18.33%) Hyper-V
3 11 (18.33%) vSphere
4 8 (13.33%) VMware NSX
5 6 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (5.00%) Firmware
7 2 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (3.33%) KVM
7 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.67%) NFS
8 1 (1.67%) SRDF
8 1 (1.67%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.67%) Xen
8 1 (1.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Ansible
2 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.00%) vCenter Server
3 7 (11.67%) vRealize
4 6 (10.00%) NetBackup
4 6 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (6.67%) SELinux
6 3 (5.00%) SCCM
6 3 (5.00%) Terraform
7 2 (3.33%) Grafana
7 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.67%) NetApp OnCommand
8 1 (1.67%) Packer
8 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.67%) vMotion
8 1 (1.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) VMware
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (20.00%) Cisco
3 12 (20.00%) NetApp
4 9 (15.00%) EMC
5 8 (13.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (13.33%) Veritas
6 7 (11.67%) F5
7 6 (10.00%) Pure Storage
7 6 (10.00%) Splunk
8 5 (8.33%) Dell
8 5 (8.33%) Oracle
8 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
8 5 (8.33%) Veeam
9 3 (5.00%) HP
10 2 (3.33%) Citrix
10 2 (3.33%) Confluent
10 2 (3.33%) Isilon
11 1 (1.67%) Snow
11 1 (1.67%) Varonis