The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank 120 103 108
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +5
Contract jobs citing NFS 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.040% 0.075% 0.073%
As % of the System Software category 0.568% 1.036% 0.893%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £325 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.81%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
176 193 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.103% 7.212% 8.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 95 62
Average daily rate £350 £312 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.26% +13.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £162 £182 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £417 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.00 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £35.00 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
NFS
UK

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Edinburgh - 1 - -
NFS
UK

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
2 2 (66.67%) HPUX
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Connectrix
2 2 (66.67%) Symmetrix
2 2 (66.67%) EMC Centera
2 2 (66.67%) EMC TimeFinder
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (66.67%) Celerra
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) SRDF
2 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (33.33%) Bash shell

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Connectrix
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
1 2 (66.67%) Symmetrix
1 2 (66.67%) EMC Centera
1 2 (66.67%) Celerra
1 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) HPUX
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat