NAS Contracts in the South East

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 205 240
Rank change year-on-year +26 +35 -47
Contract jobs citing NAS 25 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.08% 1.04% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 7
10th Percentile £361 £419 £238
25th Percentile £409 £522 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £300
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +83.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £469 £616 £419
90th Percentile £475 £638 £539
England median daily rate £463 £525 £438
% change year-on-year -11.90% +20.00% -12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,203 958 1,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.36% 16.98% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 570 770
10th Percentile £205 £244 £202
25th Percentile £375 £365 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £453
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% +6.08% +6.59%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £656
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 71 78
10th Percentile £16.68 £18.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £27.13 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -47.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.98
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +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 31 May 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 - 1
Thames Valley +15 5 £375 -14.29% 3
Berkshire -6 5 £375 +7.14% 1
Surrey +16 3 £350 -36.36%
Hampshire -3 1 £400 -36.00% 3
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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%) Senior Windows Engineer
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%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.00%) Logistics
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