The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing NFS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
51 29 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 23.08% 8.382% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 4 8
Average daily rate £300 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
Average hourly rate £12.08 £20.25 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.37% -5.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £18.45 £18.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £22.05 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
NFS
Oxfordshire

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford NFS Daily Rate Trend

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) MarkLogic
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Six Sigma
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Korn
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (33.33%) Jetty

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MarkLogic
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Korn
3 1 (33.33%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) HP