NAS Contracts in the West Midlands

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - +46
Contract jobs citing NAS 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% - 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.77% - 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile £538 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.53%
75th Percentile £563 - £775
90th Percentile - - £790
England median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +27.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 260 275 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.81% 14.44% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 170 239
10th Percentile £254 £200 £219
25th Percentile £350 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -2.58%
75th Percentile £571 £637 £600
90th Percentile £650 £750 £731
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 15
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.40 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.63 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% -49.09% +61.76%
75th Percentile £34.25 £18.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £43.70 £21.80 £68.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.76% -1.32% +42.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NAS

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NAS

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Wolverhampton - 1 £550 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam