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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 606 698
Rank change year-on-year +116 +92 -102
Contract jobs citing NAS 85 76 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.57% 1.07% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 102
10th Percentile £361 £325 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £540
90th Percentile £750 £683 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +8.82% - +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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NAS over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NAS in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the UK

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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 1 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 +91 75 £463 -11.90% 37
UK excluding London +62 57 £463 +8.82% 31
London +81 26 £625 +4.17% 11
South East +26 25 £438 -20.45% 8
Work from Home +116 24 £425 -2.86% 12
Scotland +43 10 £550 -
East of England +10 6 £425 - 4
South West - 6 £500 - 2
Midlands +25 5 £750 +176.50% 3
North of England +13 5 £450 +16.13% 9
East Midlands +14 3 £750 +244.83% 1
Yorkshire +17 2 £675 +80.00% 3
West Midlands +14 2 £1,000 +207.69% 2
North West +11 2 £438 +2.94% 5
North East - 1 £180 - 1

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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 (21.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.41%) IIS
2 8 (9.41%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.88%) Confluence
4 2 (2.35%) WordPress
5 1 (1.18%) Site Server
5 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.41%) Azure
2 14 (16.47%) AWS
2 14 (16.47%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (11.76%) Nutanix
4 9 (10.59%) Entra ID
4 9 (10.59%) GCP
4 9 (10.59%) Rubrik
5 8 (9.41%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (8.24%) OpenShift
6 7 (8.24%) SaaS
7 6 (7.06%) IaaS
7 6 (7.06%) PaaS
8 3 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.53%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.35%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.18%) GitHub
10 1 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 73 (85.88%) SAN
2 21 (24.71%) DNS
3 18 (21.18%) Firewall
4 15 (17.65%) DHCP
4 15 (17.65%) VLAN
5 14 (16.47%) TCP/IP
6 9 (10.59%) VPN
7 8 (9.41%) LAN
8 7 (8.24%) 5G
8 7 (8.24%) Wireless
9 6 (7.06%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (7.06%) iSCSI
10 5 (5.88%) Kerberos
10 5 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
10 5 (5.88%) SSL
10 5 (5.88%) VoIP
10 5 (5.88%) WAN
10 5 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (4.71%) Wireshark
12 3 (3.53%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.06%) MySQL
2 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Git
2 9 (10.59%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.59%) JIRA
3 5 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.71%) gcov
4 4 (4.71%) GDB
4 4 (4.71%) Gradle
4 4 (4.71%) Subversion
General
1 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 9 (10.59%) Finance
4 7 (8.24%) Banking
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.88%) Multimedia
7 3 (3.53%) Legal
7 3 (3.53%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (34.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) Storage Engineer
3 11 (12.94%) Senior
4 10 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Backup Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) C++ Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Exchange Specialist
8 4 (4.71%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) LDAP
2 4 (4.71%) REST
3 3 (3.53%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.35%) ADSI
4 2 (2.35%) LAMP
4 2 (2.35%) Middleware
5 1 (1.18%) .NET
5 1 (1.18%) OAuth
5 1 (1.18%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.18%) OpenID
5 1 (1.18%) SAML
5 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Data Centre
2 11 (12.94%) Clustering
2 11 (12.94%) PKI
3 9 (10.59%) Fat Client
3 9 (10.59%) Replication
3 9 (10.59%) Thin Client
4 4 (4.71%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.53%) CCTV
5 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.35%) Tandem
7 1 (1.18%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (54.12%) Windows
2 30 (35.29%) Linux
3 29 (34.12%) Windows Server
4 11 (12.94%) Unix
5 8 (9.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (8.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (7.06%) Ubuntu
8 5 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (5.88%) Solaris
9 4 (4.71%) VMS
10 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (20.00%) Migration
3 15 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (14.12%) ITIL
4 12 (14.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 11 (12.94%) Data Protection
5 11 (12.94%) High Availability
6 10 (11.76%) Security Hardening
7 8 (9.41%) Data Security
7 8 (9.41%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (8.24%) Agile
8 7 (8.24%) Data Deduplication
8 7 (8.24%) Database Migration
8 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (8.24%) Storage Management
9 6 (7.06%) DevOps
9 6 (7.06%) Patch Management
9 6 (7.06%) Virtual Environments
10 5 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.71%) PowerShell
2 17 (20.00%) Python
3 6 (7.06%) SQL
4 5 (5.88%) Bash
4 5 (5.88%) C++
5 4 (4.71%) C
5 4 (4.71%) Perl
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Java
6 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 12 (14.12%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (9.41%) DV Cleared
5 7 (8.24%) MCSE
6 5 (5.88%) CCNA
6 5 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.35%) MCSA
9 2 (2.35%) MCSD
10 1 (1.18%) CCIE
10 1 (1.18%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) GDPR
1 5 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 5 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (43.53%) Active Directory
2 36 (42.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (21.18%) vSphere
4 13 (15.29%) Hyper-V
5 5 (5.88%) Docker
5 5 (5.88%) KVM
5 5 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (4.71%) Firmware
6 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (3.53%) BitLocker
7 3 (3.53%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.35%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 16 (18.82%) Ansible
2 15 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.12%) Terraform
4 8 (9.41%) SCCM
5 7 (8.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (8.24%) NetBackup
6 5 (5.88%) Avamar
6 5 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (5.88%) Grafana
6 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (5.88%) Netcool
6 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.88%) Tivoli
6 5 (5.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (5.88%) VxRail
6 5 (5.88%) WSUS
7 4 (4.71%) Nessus
7 4 (4.71%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (4.71%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (64.71%) VMware
2 37 (43.53%) Microsoft
3 26 (30.59%) Dell
4 16 (18.82%) HP
5 15 (17.65%) EMC
6 14 (16.47%) Cisco
7 10 (11.76%) Oracle
8 9 (10.59%) Red Hat
9 7 (8.24%) Veeam
10 6 (7.06%) CyberArk
10 6 (7.06%) IBM
11 5 (5.88%) Citrix
11 5 (5.88%) Isilon
11 5 (5.88%) Qualys
11 5 (5.88%) Serena
11 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
11 5 (5.88%) Splunk
12 4 (4.71%) NetApp
12 4 (4.71%) Perforce
12 4 (4.71%) Veritas