The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank 342 367 343
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -24
Contract jobs citing NFS 35 48 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.162% 0.178% 0.322%
As % of the System Software category 2.124% 2.291% 5.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 64
Average daily rate £450 £365 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.28% -18.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £225 £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- +66.00%
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1648 2095 1868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.610% 7.777% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1198 968
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 180 204
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
NFS
England

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
City of London +12 12 £450 +12.50%
Docklands, London - 4 £450 -
Hammersmith - 2 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
NFS
England

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 64 (81.01%) Linux
2 50 (63.29%) UNIX
3 49 (62.03%) DNS
4 48 (60.76%) Red Hat
5 45 (56.96%) SAN
6 43 (54.43%) Perl
7 35 (44.30%) Solaris
8 31 (39.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (37.97%) Shell Script
9 30 (37.97%) VMware
10 27 (34.18%) LDAP
10 27 (34.18%) Windows
11 23 (29.11%) MySQL
11 23 (29.11%) Apache
11 23 (29.11%) Finance
12 22 (27.85%) NetApp
12 22 (27.85%) HP
13 21 (26.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 20 (25.32%) TCP/IP
15 19 (24.05%) Oracle
16 18 (22.78%) NAS
17 15 (18.99%) VMware ESX
17 15 (18.99%) DHCP
18 14 (17.72%) SUSE
18 14 (17.72%) Windows Server 2008
18 14 (17.72%) iSCSI
18 14 (17.72%) Bash shell
19 13 (16.46%) Nagios
20 12 (15.19%) SMTP
20 12 (15.19%) Sun

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 Development
1 3 (3.797%) Middleware
1 3 (3.797%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.532%) WebCenter
2 2 (2.532%) LAMP
3 1 (1.266%) JDBC
3 1 (1.266%) SOAP
3 1 (1.266%) Web Services
3 1 (1.266%) J2EE
3 1 (1.266%) REST
Application Platforms
1 23 (29.11%) Apache
2 7 (8.861%) MS Exchange
3 6 (7.595%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (6.329%) Tomcat
5 4 (5.063%) Liferay
6 3 (3.797%) WebLogic
6 3 (3.797%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (1.266%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.266%) Rackspace Cloud
7 1 (1.266%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.266%) Confluence
7 1 (1.266%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.266%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 6 (7.595%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 49 (62.03%) DNS
2 45 (56.96%) SAN
3 27 (34.18%) LDAP
4 20 (25.32%) TCP/IP
5 18 (22.78%) NAS
6 15 (18.99%) DHCP
7 14 (17.72%) iSCSI
8 12 (15.19%) SMTP
9 10 (12.66%) SNMP
10 7 (8.861%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (7.595%) VoIP
11 6 (7.595%) HTTP
12 5 (6.329%) SSL
13 4 (5.063%) FTP
14 3 (3.797%) Firewall
14 3 (3.797%) IPsec
14 3 (3.797%) VLAN
15 2 (2.532%) SSH
15 2 (2.532%) Internet
16 1 (1.266%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.11%) MySQL
2 4 (5.063%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.797%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.797%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (3.797%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (3.797%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (2.532%) Essbase
5 1 (1.266%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (6.329%) Git (software)
2 4 (5.063%) Hudson
2 4 (5.063%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.266%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.266%) JIRA
General
1 23 (29.11%) Finance
2 11 (13.92%) Banking
3 10 (12.66%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.266%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.266%) Law
4 1 (1.266%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Linux Engineer
2 17 (21.52%) Administrator
3 16 (20.25%) UNIX Engineer
4 15 (18.99%) Systems Engineer
5 13 (16.46%) Systems Administrator
6 10 (12.66%) Linux Administrator
6 10 (12.66%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 10 (12.66%) Support Engineer
7 9 (11.39%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 8 (10.13%) UNIX Administrator
9 7 (8.861%) Systems Support
9 7 (8.861%) Systems Support Engineer
9 7 (8.861%) Linux Support Engineer
9 7 (8.861%) Linux Support
10 4 (5.063%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.797%) Analyst
11 3 (3.797%) UNIX Support Engineer
11 3 (3.797%) Deskside Support
11 3 (3.797%) IT Administrator
11 3 (3.797%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Equities
2 5 (6.329%) Clustering
3 4 (5.063%) Open Source
4 3 (3.797%) HACMP
4 3 (3.797%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.797%) EqualLogic
4 3 (3.797%) LPAR
5 1 (1.266%) Firmware
5 1 (1.266%) Replication
5 1 (1.266%) Cryptography
5 1 (1.266%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.266%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.266%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.266%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 64 (81.01%) Linux
2 50 (63.29%) UNIX
3 35 (44.30%) Solaris
4 31 (39.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (34.18%) Windows
6 14 (17.72%) SUSE
6 14 (17.72%) Windows Server 2008
7 11 (13.92%) Windows Server 2003
8 10 (12.66%) CentOS
9 9 (11.39%) Gentoo
10 8 (10.13%) Windows 7
11 7 (8.861%) Debian
12 6 (7.595%) Ubuntu
12 6 (7.595%) FreeBSD
13 5 (6.329%) AIX
14 2 (2.532%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (10.13%) Migration
2 4 (5.063%) Capacity Management
2 4 (5.063%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (5.063%) Configuration Management
3 3 (3.797%) BCP
3 3 (3.797%) SOA
3 3 (3.797%) High Availability
3 3 (3.797%) Change Control
3 3 (3.797%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (3.797%) Product Management
4 2 (2.532%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (2.532%) ITIL
4 2 (2.532%) Service Management
5 1 (1.266%) Regression Testing
5 1 (1.266%) Workflow
5 1 (1.266%) Scrum
5 1 (1.266%) Software Deployment
5 1 (1.266%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (1.266%) Memory Management
5 1 (1.266%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (54.43%) Perl
2 30 (37.97%) Shell Script
3 14 (17.72%) Bash shell
4 12 (15.19%) PHP
4 12 (15.19%) C
4 12 (15.19%) Python
5 11 (13.92%) C++
5 11 (13.92%) Java
6 6 (7.595%) Korn
6 6 (7.595%) C-shell
7 4 (5.063%) sed
7 4 (5.063%) SQL
7 4 (5.063%) AWK
8 3 (3.797%) Ruby
8 3 (3.797%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 9 (11.39%) RHCE
3 6 (7.595%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (6.329%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.063%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.797%) RHCT
7 1 (1.266%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.266%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.329%) QA
2 1 (1.266%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 15 (18.99%) VMware ESX
3 11 (13.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (13.92%) Postfix
4 10 (12.66%) vSphere
4 10 (12.66%) Active Directory
5 8 (10.13%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (8.861%) Samba
7 4 (5.063%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (5.063%) Squid
8 3 (3.797%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (3.797%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (3.797%) XenApp
8 3 (3.797%) XenDesktop
9 2 (2.532%) Sendmail
9 2 (2.532%) Xen
10 1 (1.266%) Nmap
10 1 (1.266%) VMware Server
10 1 (1.266%) Veritas File System
10 1 (1.266%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (16.46%) Nagios
2 9 (11.39%) Cacti
3 8 (10.13%) Puppet
4 4 (5.063%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.797%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (3.797%) OpenView
5 3 (3.797%) HP Data Protector
5 3 (3.797%) OpenNMS
5 3 (3.797%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.266%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 1 (1.266%) Cobbler
6 1 (1.266%) Splunk
6 1 (1.266%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.266%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.266%) SCCM
6 1 (1.266%) SCOM
6 1 (1.266%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 48 (60.76%) Red Hat
2 30 (37.97%) VMware
3 22 (27.85%) NetApp
3 22 (27.85%) HP
4 19 (24.05%) Oracle
5 12 (15.19%) Sun
6 11 (13.92%) Cisco
7 10 (12.66%) EMC
7 10 (12.66%) Veritas
8 9 (11.39%) Citrix
9 7 (8.861%) Microsoft
9 7 (8.861%) Sybase
10 4 (5.063%) SAP
11 3 (3.797%) IBM
11 3 (3.797%) Juniper
11 3 (3.797%) Intel
11 3 (3.797%) F5
11 3 (3.797%) 3PAR
12 2 (2.532%) ProCurve
12 2 (2.532%) Hyperion