NAS Contracts

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 622 713
Rank change year-on-year +102 +91 -119
Contract jobs citing NAS 82 73 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% 1.03% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 40 103
10th Percentile £359 £308 £272
25th Percentile £413 £367 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £540
90th Percentile £750 £789 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +23.33% -11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £54.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.08% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £54.19 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,412 7,077 9,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 12.74% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,208 4,557 6,456
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 446 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +6.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -2.27%

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 9 June 2024.

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 15 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 9 June 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
England +102 74 £463 -7.50% 31
UK excluding London +67 55 £463 +23.33% 24
London +71 25 £625 +4.17% 10
South East +31 25 £438 -18.60% 6
Work from Home +118 24 £425 -5.56% 9
Scotland +44 8 £525 -
East of England +7 6 £425 - 3
South West - 6 £500 - 5
Midlands +24 5 £750 +176.50% 2
North of England +16 5 £450 +20.00% 4
East Midlands +14 3 £750 +244.83%
West Midlands +13 2 £1,000 +207.69% 2
Yorkshire +11 2 £675 +80.00% 1
North West +4 2 £438 +16.67% 2
North East - 1 £180 - 1

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 18 (21.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.76%) IIS
2 8 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.10%) Confluence
4 2 (2.44%) WordPress
5 1 (1.22%) Site Server
5 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.49%) Azure
2 14 (17.07%) AWS
2 14 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (12.20%) Nutanix
4 9 (10.98%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.98%) GCP
4 9 (10.98%) Rubrik
5 8 (9.76%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (8.54%) SaaS
7 6 (7.32%) IaaS
7 6 (7.32%) PaaS
8 5 (6.10%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.66%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.44%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.22%) GitHub
11 1 (1.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 70 (85.37%) SAN
2 20 (24.39%) DNS
3 18 (21.95%) Firewall
4 14 (17.07%) DHCP
4 14 (17.07%) VLAN
5 13 (15.85%) TCP/IP
6 9 (10.98%) VPN
7 7 (8.54%) 5G
7 7 (8.54%) LAN
7 7 (8.54%) Wireless
8 6 (7.32%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (7.32%) iSCSI
9 5 (6.10%) Kerberos
9 5 (6.10%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (6.10%) SSL
9 5 (6.10%) VoIP
9 5 (6.10%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (4.88%) WAN
10 4 (4.88%) Wireshark
11 3 (3.66%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.32%) MySQL
2 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Git
2 9 (10.98%) JIRA
3 8 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.10%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.88%) gcov
5 4 (4.88%) GDB
5 4 (4.88%) Gradle
5 4 (4.88%) Subversion
General
1 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Finance
2 9 (10.98%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.10%) Banking
4 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.10%) Multimedia
5 3 (3.66%) Legal
6 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) Storage Engineer
3 11 (13.41%) Senior
4 10 (12.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Backup Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) C++ Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Exchange Specialist
8 4 (4.88%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) LDAP
2 3 (3.66%) REST
2 3 (3.66%) Software Packaging
3 2 (2.44%) ADSI
3 2 (2.44%) LAMP
3 2 (2.44%) Middleware
4 1 (1.22%) .NET
4 1 (1.22%) OAuth
4 1 (1.22%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.22%) OpenID
4 1 (1.22%) SAML
4 1 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Data Centre
2 11 (13.41%) Clustering
2 11 (13.41%) PKI
3 9 (10.98%) Fat Client
3 9 (10.98%) Replication
3 9 (10.98%) Thin Client
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.44%) CCTV
5 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Tandem
5 2 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (53.66%) Windows
2 29 (35.37%) Linux
3 27 (32.93%) Windows Server
4 10 (12.20%) Unix
5 8 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (8.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (7.32%) Ubuntu
8 5 (6.10%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (6.10%) Solaris
9 4 (4.88%) VMS
10 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (20.73%) Migration
3 15 (18.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (14.63%) ITIL
5 11 (13.41%) High Availability
6 10 (12.20%) Security Hardening
6 10 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (10.98%) Data Protection
8 8 (9.76%) Data Security
8 8 (9.76%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (8.54%) Agile
9 7 (8.54%) Database Migration
9 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (8.54%) Storage Management
10 6 (7.32%) DevOps
10 6 (7.32%) Patch Management
10 6 (7.32%) Virtual Environments
11 5 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.10%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (6.10%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.61%) PowerShell
2 15 (18.29%) Python
3 6 (7.32%) SQL
4 5 (6.10%) Bash
4 5 (6.10%) C++
5 4 (4.88%) C
6 3 (3.66%) Perl
7 1 (1.22%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) Java
7 1 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Degree
2 12 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (9.76%) DV Cleared
5 7 (8.54%) MCSE
6 5 (6.10%) CCNA
6 5 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.44%) MCSA
9 2 (2.44%) MCSD
10 1 (1.22%) CCIE
10 1 (1.22%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) GDPR
1 5 (6.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 5 (6.10%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (43.90%) Active Directory
1 36 (43.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (21.95%) vSphere
3 13 (15.85%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.10%) Docker
4 5 (6.10%) KVM
4 5 (6.10%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.88%) Firmware
5 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.66%) BitLocker
6 3 (3.66%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.22%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 15 (18.29%) Ansible
2 13 (15.85%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.41%) Terraform
4 8 (9.76%) SCCM
5 7 (8.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (7.32%) NetBackup
7 5 (6.10%) Avamar
7 5 (6.10%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (6.10%) Netcool
7 5 (6.10%) Tivoli
7 5 (6.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (6.10%) VxRail
7 5 (6.10%) WSUS
8 4 (4.88%) Grafana
8 4 (4.88%) Nessus
8 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
8 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (4.88%) vCenter Server
8 4 (4.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (67.07%) VMware
2 37 (45.12%) Microsoft
3 26 (31.71%) Dell
4 16 (19.51%) HP
5 15 (18.29%) EMC
6 14 (17.07%) Cisco
7 10 (12.20%) Oracle
8 9 (10.98%) Red Hat
9 7 (8.54%) Veeam
10 6 (7.32%) CyberArk
10 6 (7.32%) IBM
11 5 (6.10%) Citrix
11 5 (6.10%) Isilon
11 5 (6.10%) Qualys
11 5 (6.10%) Serena
11 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
11 5 (6.10%) Splunk
12 4 (4.88%) Klocwork
12 4 (4.88%) NetApp
12 4 (4.88%) Perforce