NAS Contracts in England

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 589 660
Rank change year-on-year +128 +71 -153
Contract jobs citing NAS 76 62 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.59% 1.05% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 45 85
10th Percentile £351 £318 £264
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £659 £638 £525
90th Percentile £750 £746 £604
UK median daily rate £488 £535 £438
% change year-on-year -8.88% +22.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.99
25th Percentile - - £39.11
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £42.21
75th Percentile - - £44.07
90th Percentile - - £44.44
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £60.55 £42.21
% change year-on-year -60.69% +43.46% +128.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,784 5,911 7,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 12.27% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 3,864 5,161
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £393 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 424 309
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +7.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for NAS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for NAS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for NAS in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +97 27 £625 +4.17% 8
South East +30 25 £438 -20.45% 9
East of England +14 6 £425 -45.16% 3
Midlands +28 5 £750 +244.83% 4
South West - 5 £500 - 3
North of England +17 4 £550 +41.94% 8
East Midlands +14 3 £750 +248.84% 3
West Midlands +26 2 £1,000 +207.69% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £675 +80.00% 2
North West +10 1 £425 - 6
North East - 1 £180 -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (22.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.53%) IIS
3 6 (7.89%) Confluence
3 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.95%) WordPress
5 1 (1.32%) Site Server
5 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.26%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) AWS
3 11 (14.47%) Nutanix
4 10 (13.16%) GCP
4 10 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (11.84%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (11.84%) Rubrik
5 9 (11.84%) SaaS
6 8 (10.53%) PaaS
7 7 (9.21%) IaaS
8 5 (6.58%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.95%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.63%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.32%) GitHub
11 1 (1.32%) OCI
11 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (85.53%) SAN
2 22 (28.95%) DNS
3 16 (21.05%) DHCP
3 16 (21.05%) Firewall
3 16 (21.05%) VLAN
4 15 (19.74%) TCP/IP
5 9 (11.84%) VPN
6 7 (9.21%) 5G
6 7 (9.21%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (9.21%) iSCSI
6 7 (9.21%) LAN
6 7 (9.21%) Wireless
7 6 (7.89%) Kerberos
8 5 (6.58%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (6.58%) SSL
8 5 (6.58%) VoIP
8 5 (6.58%) WAN
9 4 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (5.26%) Wireshark
10 3 (3.95%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.89%) MySQL
2 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Git
2 10 (13.16%) JIRA
3 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.89%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.26%) gcov
5 4 (5.26%) GDB
5 4 (5.26%) Gradle
5 4 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 12 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 9 (11.84%) Finance
4 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.58%) Multimedia
6 3 (3.95%) Legal
6 3 (3.95%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (2.63%) Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (34.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (19.74%) Storage Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Senior
4 9 (11.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Backup Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) C++ Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Developer
7 5 (6.58%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Exchange Specialist
8 4 (5.26%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.53%) LDAP
2 3 (3.95%) LAMP
3 2 (2.63%) ADSI
3 2 (2.63%) Middleware
3 2 (2.63%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.32%) .NET
4 1 (1.32%) OAuth
4 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.32%) OpenID
4 1 (1.32%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) SAML
4 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) Clustering
2 11 (14.47%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.47%) Replication
3 9 (11.84%) PKI
4 7 (9.21%) Fat Client
4 7 (9.21%) Thin Client
5 3 (3.95%) CCTV
5 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Tandem
7 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 41 (53.95%) Windows
2 31 (40.79%) Linux
3 28 (36.84%) Windows Server
4 10 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (11.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (9.21%) Ubuntu
6 7 (9.21%) Unix
7 6 (7.89%) Oracle Linux
7 6 (7.89%) Solaris
8 5 (6.58%) VMS
8 5 (6.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (3.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (22.37%) Migration
3 15 (19.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (14.47%) High Availability
5 10 (13.16%) Security Hardening
6 9 (11.84%) ITIL
7 8 (10.53%) Agile
7 8 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (10.53%) Storage Management
8 7 (9.21%) Database Migration
8 7 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (7.89%) Cost Optimisation
9 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (7.89%) Service Catalogue
9 6 (7.89%) Virtual Environments
9 6 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.63%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.79%) Python
3 6 (7.89%) Bash
4 5 (6.58%) C++
4 5 (6.58%) SQL
5 4 (5.26%) C
6 1 (1.32%) C#
6 1 (1.32%) Java
6 1 (1.32%) Perl
6 1 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) Degree
2 11 (14.47%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 7 (9.21%) MCSE
6 5 (6.58%) CCNA
6 5 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.63%) MCSA
9 2 (2.63%) MCSD
10 1 (1.32%) CCIE
10 1 (1.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) GDPR
1 6 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (44.74%) Active Directory
3 18 (23.68%) vSphere
4 12 (15.79%) Hyper-V
5 6 (7.89%) Docker
6 5 (6.58%) KVM
6 5 (6.58%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (5.26%) Firmware
7 4 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.63%) BitLocker
8 2 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.32%) Terminal Server
9 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Ansible
2 10 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.84%) Terraform
4 7 (9.21%) SCCM
5 6 (7.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (7.89%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (7.89%) Netcool
5 6 (7.89%) Tivoli
5 6 (7.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (6.58%) Avamar
6 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (6.58%) WSUS
7 4 (5.26%) Nessus
7 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (5.26%) vCenter Server
7 4 (5.26%) VxRail
7 4 (5.26%) ZABBIX
8 3 (3.95%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.63%) Backup Exec
9 2 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (72.37%) VMware
2 36 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 26 (34.21%) Dell
4 14 (18.42%) EMC
5 13 (17.11%) HP
6 11 (14.47%) Cisco
6 11 (14.47%) Oracle
7 9 (11.84%) Red Hat
8 8 (10.53%) Veeam
9 7 (9.21%) CyberArk
9 7 (9.21%) IBM
10 6 (7.89%) Isilon
10 6 (7.89%) Qualys
10 6 (7.89%) Serena
10 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow
10 6 (7.89%) Splunk
11 4 (5.26%) Klocwork
11 4 (5.26%) Perforce
12 3 (3.95%) Palo Alto
12 3 (3.95%) Synology