The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 21 May 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 Cambridgeshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank - 58 49
Contract jobs citing NFS 0 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.733% 0.392%
As % of the System Software category - 7.143% 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
Average daily rate - £425 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +28.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- +66.00%
All System Software
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
77 70 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 14.13% 10.26% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 25
Average daily rate £310 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £209 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £388 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 22
Average hourly rate £17.50 £29.75 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +128.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £47.50 £19.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
NFS
East of England

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire NFS Daily Rate Trend

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire NFS Hourly Rate Trend

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) Samba
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (25.00%) Cadence
4 1 (25.00%) IC Design
4 1 (25.00%) XenApp
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (25.00%) Lync
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (25.00%) CommVault
4 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) AppManager
4 1 (25.00%) Sun
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (25.00%) Lync
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) IC Design
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Samba
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) AppManager
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Cadence
4 1 (25.00%) CommVault
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Sun
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco