The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 18 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 North West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank - 131 130
Contract jobs citing NFS 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.099% 0.066%
As % of the System Software category - 1.172% 0.758%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £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 £35.00 £41.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-15.66% +66.00%
All System Software
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
262 256 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.87% 8.407% 8.673%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 104 123
Average daily rate £266 £292 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.66% +14.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £207 £137 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 47 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
NFS
England

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 18 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
Manchester - - - - 1
Cheshire - - - -
Lancashire - - - -
NFS
England

NFS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (88.89%) SQL
1 8 (88.89%) IIS
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) MS Exchange
1 8 (88.89%) SAS
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) Citrix
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
1 8 (88.89%) Backup Exec
1 8 (88.89%) Exchange Server 2007
1 8 (88.89%) SCOM
1 8 (88.89%) iSCSI
1 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (88.89%) Hyper-V
1 8 (88.89%) XenDesktop
1 8 (88.89%) vSphere
1 8 (88.89%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (11.11%) Amdocs
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (88.89%) IIS
1 8 (88.89%) MS Exchange
1 8 (88.89%) SAS
1 8 (88.89%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) iSCSI
1 8 (88.89%) Fibre Channel
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Service Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Services Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) Hyper-V
1 8 (88.89%) XenDesktop
1 8 (88.89%) vSphere
2 3 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Backup Exec
1 8 (88.89%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
1 8 (88.89%) Citrix
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Amdocs
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
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