The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank 118 133 129
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -4
Contract jobs citing NFS 3 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.128% 0.158% 0.033%
As % of the System Software category 0.968% 2.083% 0.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £41.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-15.66% +66.00%
All System Software
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
310 240 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 13.24% 7.571% 7.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 92 80
Average daily rate £325 £315 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £222 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 40 28
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% +17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.30 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
NFS
South East

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NFS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Berkshire NFS Jobs Demand Trend

NFS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing NFS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire NFS Daily Rate Trend

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NFS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire NFS Daily Rate Histogram

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing NFS across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire NFS Hourly Rate Trend

NFS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Slough - 1 £500 - 2
Bracknell - - - - 1
Maidenhead - - - -
NFS
South East

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing NFS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited NFS.

1 10 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (53.33%) UNIX
2 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (46.67%) QA
3 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (46.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 5 (33.33%) Windows
5 4 (26.67%) C
5 4 (26.67%) C++
5 4 (26.67%) OO
5 4 (26.67%) Python
5 4 (26.67%) Client/Server
5 4 (26.67%) FTP
5 4 (26.67%) Veritas
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (20.00%) NAS
6 3 (20.00%) Product Management
6 3 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (20.00%) Finance
6 3 (20.00%) Legal
6 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (20.00%) System Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Amdocs
6 3 (20.00%) Legato
6 3 (20.00%) SAN
6 3 (20.00%) HP
6 3 (20.00%) Linux
7 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000
7 2 (13.33%) IIS

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing NFS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited NFS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) FTP
3 3 (20.00%) NAS
3 3 (20.00%) SAN
4 2 (13.33%) DNS
4 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 1 (6.667%) LTE
5 1 (6.667%) VLAN
5 1 (6.667%) IPv6
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Subversion
1 1 (6.667%) ClearCase
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Installation Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Senior Tester
3 1 (6.667%) QA Tester
3 1 (6.667%) QA Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (6.667%) Systems Tester
3 1 (6.667%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 4 (26.67%) Client/Server
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (26.67%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
3 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
3 2 (13.33%) Grid Computing
3 2 (13.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) UNIX
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (6.667%) SUSE
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (26.67%) OO
3 3 (20.00%) Product Management
3 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (20.00%) System Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C
1 4 (26.67%) C++
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) HNC
2 2 (13.33%) MCSE
2 2 (13.33%) CCA
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) MetaFrame
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (20.00%) Legato
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Veritas
2 3 (20.00%) Amdocs
2 3 (20.00%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Citrix
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.667%) Remedy
4 1 (6.667%) Sun