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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 504 630
Rank change year-on-year +19 +126 +85
Contract jobs citing NAS 58 78 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.54% 1.44% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 53 43
10th Percentile £403 £353 £315
25th Percentile £420 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £666
90th Percentile £675 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +5.00% +16.13% -8.82%
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% -
75th Percentile - - £57.37
90th Percentile - - £59.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.19

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 3,766 5,422 7,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.55% 12.37% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,283 3,197 4,585
10th Percentile £225 £212 £239
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -3.08% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 429 448
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.05 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £41.48 £43.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +126.32% -32.74%
75th Percentile £59.78 £63.75 £60.59
90th Percentile £76.50 £72.58 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.70 £47.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -35.37% +150.00% -13.64%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +41 48 £513 +10.81% 180
UK excluding London +30 37 £473 +5.00% 95
London +40 19 £610 -2.40% 100
North of England +23 16 £415 -7.78% 17
Yorkshire +16 12 £405 -40.00% 6
Work from Home +22 11 £600 +41.18% 69
Scotland +8 8 £500 +19.05% 4
West Midlands +13 5 - - 5
Midlands +11 5 - - 9
East of England +19 4 £430 +1.18% 10
North West +12 4 £425 -2.86% 9
South East +29 3 £525 +16.67% 48
South West +37 1 £875 +75.00% 8

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 (12.07%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.62%) Confluence
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) Azure
2 13 (22.41%) AWS
3 12 (20.69%) OpenShift
4 10 (17.24%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.34%) Cohesity
7 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.45%) IaaS
9 2 (3.45%) PaaS
9 2 (3.45%) SaaS
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.72%) GCP
10 1 (1.72%) Route 53
10 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (79.31%) SAN
2 11 (18.97%) LAN
3 10 (17.24%) DNS
3 10 (17.24%) Firewall
3 10 (17.24%) TCP/IP
4 8 (13.79%) WAN
5 6 (10.34%) VLAN
6 5 (8.62%) DHCP
7 4 (6.90%) SSL
8 3 (5.17%) VPN
9 2 (3.45%) Internet
9 2 (3.45%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.72%) NetScaler
10 1 (1.72%) Network Security
10 1 (1.72%) Skype
10 1 (1.72%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) Big Data
3 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Git
2 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) JIRA
4 4 (6.90%) GitLab
5 3 (5.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
4 5 (8.62%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Analyst
3 6 (10.34%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Architect
4 5 (8.62%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Administrator
5 4 (6.90%) DevOps Administrator
5 4 (6.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.90%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Identity Management Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) NetBackup Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Backup Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) LDAP
2 8 (13.79%) Middleware
3 5 (8.62%) SailPoint
4 4 (6.90%) Kafka
4 4 (6.90%) REST
5 1 (1.72%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 9 (15.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.34%) Clustering
3 6 (10.34%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (6.90%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (6.90%) Replication
5 3 (5.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (3.45%) CMDB
7 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.72%) FlexPod
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.72%) PKI
7 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (62.07%) Windows
2 29 (50.00%) Linux
3 28 (48.28%) Windows Server
4 13 (22.41%) Unix
5 10 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.90%) Ubuntu
7 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.72%) CentOS
8 1 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.72%) Solaris
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (20.69%) High Availability
4 11 (18.97%) Data Protection
4 11 (18.97%) Observability
5 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 9 (15.52%) ITIL
6 9 (15.52%) Migration
6 9 (15.52%) Storage Management
7 8 (13.79%) Data Deduplication
7 8 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (13.79%) Task Automation
8 7 (12.07%) Computer Science
8 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
8 7 (12.07%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (10.34%) Agile
9 6 (10.34%) DevOps
9 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (8.62%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.17%) C++
5 2 (3.45%) Bash
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.45%) CCNP
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.45%) VCAP
5 1 (1.72%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CCIE
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) HP ASE
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) MCP
5 1 (1.72%) NCSIE
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) GDPR
1 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.17%) NIST
2 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.72%) ISO 14001
2 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (43.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (34.48%) Active Directory
3 8 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 7 (12.07%) vSphere
5 5 (8.62%) VMware NSX
6 4 (6.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (6.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.45%) Firmware
9 1 (1.72%) Docker
9 1 (1.72%) KVM
9 1 (1.72%) NFS
9 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.72%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.69%) Ansible
3 8 (13.79%) NetBackup
3 8 (13.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (8.62%) vCenter Server
5 4 (6.90%) Grafana
5 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.90%) vRealize
6 3 (5.17%) Puppet
6 3 (5.17%) SCCM
6 3 (5.17%) SELinux
6 3 (5.17%) Terraform
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.72%) Netcool
7 1 (1.72%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.72%) vMotion
7 1 (1.72%) yum
Vendors
1 27 (46.55%) VMware
2 13 (22.41%) NetApp
2 13 (22.41%) Red Hat
2 13 (22.41%) Veritas
3 12 (20.69%) Splunk
4 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 10 (17.24%) ServiceNow
5 9 (15.52%) Cisco
6 8 (13.79%) Dell
6 8 (13.79%) EMC
6 8 (13.79%) Oracle
7 4 (6.90%) AppDynamics
7 4 (6.90%) Confluent
8 3 (5.17%) Veeam
9 2 (3.45%) F5
9 2 (3.45%) HP
9 2 (3.45%) Isilon
10 1 (1.72%) Citrix
10 1 (1.72%) IBM
10 1 (1.72%) Sybase
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