NFS Contracts in Scotland

Network File System (NFS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for NFS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NFS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 142 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing NFS 7 25 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 0.89% -
As % of the System Software category 2.27% 5.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile - £447 -
25th Percentile £609 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £571 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% - -
75th Percentile £722 £618 -
90th Percentile - £639 -
UK median daily rate £413 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -29.25% +1.39% +29.58%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

NFS is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 308 430 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.18% 15.28% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 315 285
10th Percentile £191 £184 £156
25th Percentile £321 £373 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £626 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 16
10th Percentile - £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -31.01%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £49.26
90th Percentile - £55.57 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in Scotland

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for NFS in Scotland

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in Scotland

NFS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -5 7 £655 +14.75%
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (57.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) DB2
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Flash
1 7 (100.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) NVMe
2 4 (57.14%) Client/Server
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Unix
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (57.14%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) SDLC
2 5 (71.43%) Capacity Management
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
2 5 (71.43%) Storage Management
3 4 (57.14%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (57.14%) OO
3 4 (57.14%) Storage Virtualisation
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Investment Management
4 3 (42.86%) Wealth Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) Perl
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
1 4 (57.14%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Brocade
1 4 (57.14%) EMC
1 4 (57.14%) Google
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
1 4 (57.14%) NetApp
1 4 (57.14%) Sybase
1 4 (57.14%) Veritas