The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 19 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 Surrey 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank 72 96 101
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +5
Contract jobs citing NFS 6 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.492% 0.124% 0.054%
As % of the System Software category 4.027% 1.681% 0.568%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
149 119 176
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 12.21% 7.405% 9.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 55 75
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £120 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £513 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 23
Average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -9.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.10 £10.75 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
NFS
South East

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey NFS Hourly Rate Trend

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 14 (93.33%) NAS
2 13 (86.67%) SAN
3 10 (66.67%) UNIX
3 10 (66.67%) Linux
4 9 (60.00%) Shell Script
5 8 (53.33%) NetApp
6 7 (46.67%) Veritas
6 7 (46.67%) EMC
6 7 (46.67%) Banking
7 6 (40.00%) Migration
7 6 (40.00%) AIX
7 6 (40.00%) Solaris
8 5 (33.33%) HPUX
8 5 (33.33%) Perl
8 5 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 5 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (26.67%) Bash shell
9 4 (26.67%) Memory Management
9 4 (26.67%) tcpdump
9 4 (26.67%) Puppet
9 4 (26.67%) Hudson
9 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
9 4 (26.67%) sed
9 4 (26.67%) Liferay
9 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (26.67%) VMware
9 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (26.67%) Clustering
9 4 (26.67%) AWK
9 4 (26.67%) Equities

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (26.67%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Liferay
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) NAS
2 13 (86.67%) SAN
3 4 (26.67%) tcpdump
3 4 (26.67%) iSCSI
3 4 (26.67%) LAN
3 4 (26.67%) SMTP
3 4 (26.67%) DHCP
3 4 (26.67%) HTTP
3 4 (26.67%) SNMP
3 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (26.67%) DNS
3 4 (26.67%) SSL
3 4 (26.67%) LDAP
3 4 (26.67%) TELNET
4 1 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Hudson
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.667%) ClearCase
General
1 7 (46.67%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (20.00%) UNIX Specialist
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) UNIX Consultant
4 1 (6.667%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
1 4 (26.67%) Equities
1 4 (26.67%) Cryptography
2 2 (13.33%) Firmware
3 1 (6.667%) Statistics
3 1 (6.667%) Open Source
3 1 (6.667%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) UNIX
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) AIX
2 6 (40.00%) Solaris
3 5 (33.33%) HPUX
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Memory Management
2 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (26.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) Fund Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 5 (33.33%) Perl
3 4 (26.67%) Bash shell
3 4 (26.67%) sed
3 4 (26.67%) AWK
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) MCSE
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.667%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (26.67%) Nmap
2 4 (26.67%) Squid
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) Postfix
3 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Puppet
1 4 (26.67%) Nagios
2 1 (6.667%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) NetApp
2 7 (46.67%) Veritas
2 7 (46.67%) EMC
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 4 (26.67%) JBoss
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (13.33%) Hitachi
5 1 (6.667%) Sun