NAS Contracts in England

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 568 649
Rank change year-on-year +92 +81 -111
Contract jobs citing NAS 74 68 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 1.15% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 40 100
10th Percentile £350 £308 £297
25th Percentile £413 £367 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £669 £641 £540
90th Percentile £750 £800 £578
UK median daily rate £469 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £47.83 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.24% - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £54.19 -
% change year-on-year -56.08% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

NAS
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 12 June 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 12 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
London +69 25 £625 +4.17% 12
South East +31 25 £438 -18.60% 9
East of England +10 6 £425 - 3
South West - 6 £500 - 4
Midlands +18 5 £750 +130.77% 1
North of England +8 5 £450 +20.00% 4
East Midlands +9 3 £750 +244.83%
West Midlands +17 2 £1,000 +77.78% 1
Yorkshire +13 2 £675 +80.00% 3
North West +6 2 £438 +16.67% 1
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 18 (24.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.81%) IIS
2 8 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.76%) Confluence
4 2 (2.70%) WordPress
5 1 (1.35%) Site Server
5 1 (1.35%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.73%) Azure
2 14 (18.92%) AWS
3 11 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.51%) Nutanix
5 9 (12.16%) GCP
5 9 (12.16%) Rubrik
6 8 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (9.46%) SaaS
8 6 (8.11%) Entra ID
8 6 (8.11%) IaaS
8 6 (8.11%) PaaS
9 3 (4.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (4.05%) Mimecast
10 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.35%) GitHub
11 1 (1.35%) OCI
11 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 63 (85.14%) SAN
2 20 (27.03%) DNS
3 15 (20.27%) Firewall
4 14 (18.92%) DHCP
4 14 (18.92%) VLAN
5 13 (17.57%) TCP/IP
6 9 (12.16%) VPN
7 7 (9.46%) 5G
7 7 (9.46%) LAN
7 7 (9.46%) Wireless
8 6 (8.11%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (8.11%) iSCSI
9 5 (6.76%) Kerberos
9 5 (6.76%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (6.76%) SSL
9 5 (6.76%) VoIP
9 5 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (5.41%) WAN
10 4 (5.41%) Wireshark
11 3 (4.05%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.11%) MySQL
2 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Git
2 9 (12.16%) JIRA
3 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.76%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.41%) gcov
5 4 (5.41%) GDB
5 4 (5.41%) Gradle
5 4 (5.41%) Subversion
General
1 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Telecoms
3 8 (10.81%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.76%) Multimedia
6 3 (4.05%) Legal
7 2 (2.70%) Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.70%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (18.92%) Storage Engineer
3 10 (13.51%) Senior
3 10 (13.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Backup Engineer
4 7 (9.46%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) C++ Developer
6 5 (6.76%) Developer
6 5 (6.76%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Exchange Specialist
7 4 (5.41%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Wintel Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.05%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) LDAP
2 3 (4.05%) Software Packaging
3 2 (2.70%) ADSI
3 2 (2.70%) LAMP
3 2 (2.70%) Middleware
4 1 (1.35%) .NET
4 1 (1.35%) OAuth
4 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.35%) OpenID
4 1 (1.35%) REST
4 1 (1.35%) SAML
4 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.86%) Clustering
2 11 (14.86%) PKI
3 9 (12.16%) Fat Client
3 9 (12.16%) Replication
3 9 (12.16%) Thin Client
4 4 (5.41%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.70%) CCTV
5 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Tandem
5 2 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (52.70%) Windows
2 28 (37.84%) Linux
3 25 (33.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.81%) Unix
4 8 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (8.11%) Ubuntu
6 5 (6.76%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (6.76%) Solaris
7 4 (5.41%) VMS
7 4 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (21.62%) Migration
3 15 (20.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (14.86%) High Availability
5 10 (13.51%) Security Hardening
6 9 (12.16%) ITIL
7 8 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (9.46%) Agile
8 7 (9.46%) Database Migration
8 7 (9.46%) Infrastructure Management
8 7 (9.46%) Storage Management
9 6 (8.11%) Patch Management
9 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (8.11%) Virtual Environments
10 5 (6.76%) Cost Optimisation
10 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (6.76%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (6.76%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.76%) Service Catalogue
10 5 (6.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.38%) PowerShell
2 11 (14.86%) Python
3 6 (8.11%) SQL
4 5 (6.76%) Bash
4 5 (6.76%) C++
5 4 (5.41%) C
6 1 (1.35%) C#
6 1 (1.35%) Java
6 1 (1.35%) Perl
6 1 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Degree
2 12 (16.22%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (10.81%) DV Cleared
5 7 (9.46%) MCSE
6 5 (6.76%) CCNA
6 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.70%) MCSA
9 2 (2.70%) MCSD
10 1 (1.35%) CCIE
10 1 (1.35%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) GDPR
1 5 (6.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 5 (6.76%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (48.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (44.59%) Active Directory
3 18 (24.32%) vSphere
4 13 (17.57%) Hyper-V
5 5 (6.76%) Docker
5 5 (6.76%) KVM
5 5 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.41%) Firmware
6 4 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (4.05%) BitLocker
7 3 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.35%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) Ansible
2 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.81%) SCCM
3 8 (10.81%) Terraform
4 7 (9.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (6.76%) Avamar
5 5 (6.76%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.76%) Netcool
5 5 (6.76%) Tivoli
5 5 (6.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (6.76%) VxRail
5 5 (6.76%) WSUS
6 4 (5.41%) Nessus
6 4 (5.41%) NetBackup
6 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (5.41%) vCenter Server
6 4 (5.41%) ZABBIX
7 3 (4.05%) SCOM
7 3 (4.05%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 55 (74.32%) VMware
2 37 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 26 (35.14%) Dell
4 14 (18.92%) EMC
5 13 (17.57%) HP
6 11 (14.86%) Cisco
7 10 (13.51%) Oracle
8 9 (12.16%) Red Hat
9 7 (9.46%) Veeam
10 6 (8.11%) CyberArk
10 6 (8.11%) IBM
11 5 (6.76%) Isilon
11 5 (6.76%) Qualys
11 5 (6.76%) Serena
11 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
11 5 (6.76%) Splunk
12 4 (5.41%) Klocwork
12 4 (5.41%) Perforce
13 3 (4.05%) Dell Compellent
13 3 (4.05%) Equitrac