NAS Contracts in the South East

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 175 206 241
Rank change year-on-year +31 +35 -38
Contract jobs citing NAS 25 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.16% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.10% 0.92% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 7
10th Percentile £361 £381 £238
25th Percentile £409 £466 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 £300
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +79.17% -25.00%
75th Percentile £469 £550 £419
90th Percentile £475 - £539
England median daily rate £463 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -9.76% +13.89% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,192 982 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 20.72% 17.34% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 578 777
10th Percentile £214 £246 £210
25th Percentile £390 £363 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £700 £651
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 70 85
10th Percentile £17.26 £18.20 £14.27
25th Percentile £29.81 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £63.25
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 South East

Job postings citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for NAS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NAS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for NAS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for NAS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NAS within the South East 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
West Sussex - 16 £450 -
Thames Valley +10 5 £375 -14.29% 3
Berkshire -7 5 £375 +7.14% 1
Surrey +16 3 £350 -36.36%
Hampshire -9 1 £400 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) GCP
2 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 24 (96.00%) SAN
2 4 (16.00%) DHCP
2 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (16.00%) SSL
2 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.00%) VLAN
2 4 (16.00%) VoIP
2 4 (16.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) 5G
3 1 (4.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
2 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Legal
3 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (36.00%) Senior
3 9 (36.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Backup Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
7 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.00%) Fat Client
1 4 (16.00%) PKI
1 4 (16.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (8.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (16.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (16.00%) Unix
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Migration
3 7 (28.00%) Database Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Change Management
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.00%) Security Management
4 4 (16.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 3 (12.00%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.00%) Patch Management
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) ITIL
6 2 (8.00%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.00%) Storage Management
7 1 (4.00%) Business Continuity
7 1 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.00%) Logistics
7 1 (4.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) CCNA
2 4 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.00%) MCSE
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (52.00%) vSphere
2 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.00%) Firmware
3 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Avamar
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 4 (16.00%) Nessus
2 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (16.00%) WSUS
2 4 (16.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) VMware
2 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (28.00%) Dell
4 6 (24.00%) EMC
5 4 (16.00%) Oracle
5 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (16.00%) Veeam
6 1 (4.00%) Facebook
6 1 (4.00%) Instagram