NAS Contracts in the North West

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 133 139 169
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 -21
Contract jobs citing NAS 2 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.072% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 2.58% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £416 £263 -
25th Percentile £422 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £447 £438 £488
90th Percentile £449 £458 £518
England median daily rate £463 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -9.76% +13.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.83 -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £47.83 -
% change year-on-year -50.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 426 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.68% 14.14% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 286 370
10th Percentile £209 £288 £172
25th Percentile £329 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.11% +14.06%
75th Percentile £666 £565 £585
90th Percentile £828 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 10
10th Percentile £20.93 £15.41 £10.96
25th Percentile £25.13 £18.93 £16.42
Median hourly rate £40.44 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +62.34% +32.17%
75th Percentile £46.60 £51.06 £49.94
90th Percentile £50.78 £53.22 £65.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for NAS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the North West 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
Manchester +5 2 £438 +2.94%
NAS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VMware