The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 - 63 68
Contract jobs citing NFS 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.094% 0.300%
As % of the System Software category - 1.235% 3.419%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £331
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
67 81 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 7.379% 7.598% 8.784%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 25
Average daily rate £375 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £118 £158 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £403 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
NFS
Scotland

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh NFS Hourly Rate Trend

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Connectrix
2 2 (66.67%) Symmetrix
2 2 (66.67%) EMC Centera
2 2 (66.67%) EMC TimeFinder
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (66.67%) Celerra
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) SRDF
2 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (33.33%) Bash shell

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Connectrix
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
1 2 (66.67%) Symmetrix
1 2 (66.67%) EMC Centera
1 2 (66.67%) Celerra
1 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) HPUX
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
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