NAS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 438 561
Rank change year-on-year +119 +123 -98
Contract jobs citing NAS 26 19 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.077% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.69% 0.67% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 49
10th Percentile £410 £381 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -4.17% -5.26%
75th Percentile £609 £554 £540
90th Percentile £663 £606 £617
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £431
% change year-on-year -4.76% +21.74% -13.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,538 2,832 4,377
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.46% 11.55% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,880 2,971
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £488 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 95 105
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.14 £42.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +21.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +6.94%

NAS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NAS trend for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing NAS over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 6 (23.08%) Confluence
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (7.69%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (26.92%) SaaS
3 6 (23.08%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 6 (23.08%) GCP
3 6 (23.08%) IaaS
3 6 (23.08%) Nutanix
3 6 (23.08%) PaaS
3 6 (23.08%) Rubrik
4 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (80.77%) SAN
2 10 (38.46%) Firewall
3 8 (30.77%) DHCP
3 8 (30.77%) DNS
3 8 (30.77%) VLAN
4 6 (23.08%) Kerberos
4 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) VoIP
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
5 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 6 (23.08%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Senior
2 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) Storage and Backup Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
2 2 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) IT Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) Perl Scripter
3 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) ADSI
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Clustering
2 6 (23.08%) Replication
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Tandem
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 6 (23.08%) Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Oracle Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Solaris
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (7.69%) VMS
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.85%) Unix
6 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Data Security
1 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 7 (26.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (23.08%) High Availability
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) ITIL
3 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (23.08%) Security Hardening
3 6 (23.08%) Service Catalogue
3 6 (23.08%) Storage Management
3 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) MCSA
1 2 (7.69%) MCSD
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) GDPR
1 6 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 12 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (23.08%) Docker
4 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Ansible
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (23.08%) Netcool
2 6 (23.08%) Tivoli
2 6 (23.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Avamar
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) VMware
2 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 11 (42.31%) Dell
3 11 (42.31%) EMC
3 11 (42.31%) HP
4 10 (38.46%) Cisco
5 7 (26.92%) CyberArk
6 6 (23.08%) IBM
6 6 (23.08%) Isilon
6 6 (23.08%) Oracle
6 6 (23.08%) Qualys
6 6 (23.08%) Serena
6 6 (23.08%) ServiceNow
6 6 (23.08%) Splunk
7 4 (15.38%) Citrix
8 1 (3.85%) Facebook
8 1 (3.85%) Meraki
8 1 (3.85%) NetApp
8 1 (3.85%) Veeam
8 1 (3.85%) Veritas