NAS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Network Attached Storage (NAS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 427 560
Rank change year-on-year +108 +133 -82
Contract jobs citing NAS 24 18 69
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.075% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.56% 0.65% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 57
10th Percentile £410 £374 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -4.26%
75th Percentile £516 £563 £540
90th Percentile £663 £631 £606
UK median daily rate £469 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,537 2,786 4,431
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.67% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 1,856 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 98 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.16 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +19.26% +23.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.19 £63.06
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +4.00%

NAS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NAS trend for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NAS.

NAS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing NAS over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

NAS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NAS.

NAS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (20.83%) Confluence
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (25.00%) SaaS
4 5 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 5 (20.83%) IaaS
4 5 (20.83%) Nutanix
4 5 (20.83%) PaaS
4 5 (20.83%) Rubrik
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) SAN
2 9 (37.50%) Firewall
3 7 (29.17%) DHCP
3 7 (29.17%) DNS
3 7 (29.17%) VLAN
4 5 (20.83%) Kerberos
4 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.17%) LAN
5 1 (4.17%) VoIP
5 1 (4.17%) WAN
5 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) IT Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) IT Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Perl Scripter
5 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) LDAP
2 2 (8.33%) ADSI
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Clustering
2 5 (20.83%) Replication
3 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Tandem
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (20.83%) Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Solaris
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (8.33%) VMS
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.17%) Unix
6 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Migration
2 8 (33.33%) Data Security
3 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (25.00%) ITIL
4 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.83%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (20.83%) High Availability
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (20.83%) Security Hardening
5 5 (20.83%) Service Catalogue
5 5 (20.83%) Storage Management
5 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) MCSA
1 2 (8.33%) MCSD
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) GDPR
1 5 (20.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (20.83%) Docker
4 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Ansible
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (20.83%) Netcool
2 5 (20.83%) Tivoli
2 5 (20.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Avamar
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) VMware
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (41.67%) Dell
3 10 (41.67%) EMC
3 10 (41.67%) HP
4 9 (37.50%) Cisco
5 6 (25.00%) CyberArk
6 5 (20.83%) IBM
6 5 (20.83%) Isilon
6 5 (20.83%) Oracle
6 5 (20.83%) Qualys
6 5 (20.83%) Serena
6 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
6 5 (20.83%) Splunk
7 4 (16.67%) Citrix
8 1 (4.17%) Facebook
8 1 (4.17%) Meraki
8 1 (4.17%) NetApp
8 1 (4.17%) Veeam
8 1 (4.17%) Veritas