The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 35 - 42
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing NFS 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.730% - 0.699%
As % of the System Software category 6.250% - 6.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
32 33 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 11.68% 4.933% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 16
Average daily rate £500 £400 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +77.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £195 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
Average hourly rate £10.25 £31.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-67.46% +65.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.65 £22.70 £17.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.85 £31.50 £21.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
NFS
South West

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire NFS Daily Rate Trend

NFS
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) HPUX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat