NAS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 318 460
Rank change year-on-year +24 +142 +118
Contract jobs citing NAS 10 27 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.18% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 1.68% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 13
10th Percentile £495 £408 £340
25th Percentile £538 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £568
90th Percentile £788 £663 £614
UK median daily rate £486 £475 £548
% change year-on-year +2.37% -13.24% +21.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

NAS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NAS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NAS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NAS.

NAS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NAS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

NAS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NAS.

NAS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
2 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Management Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) NetBackup Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
2 3 (30.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (10.00%) OpenCV
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (30.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Solaris
5 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (30.00%) Use Case
2 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Information Management
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Security
3 1 (10.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C++
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SELinux
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (10.00%) Netcool
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (10.00%) EMC
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Isilon
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Qualys
4 1 (10.00%) Serena
4 1 (10.00%) Snow
4 1 (10.00%) Sybase
4 1 (10.00%) Veritas