IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GPFS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GPFS over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 686 852
Rank change year-on-year +94 +166 -187
Contract jobs citing GPFS 6 26 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.044% 0.001%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.33% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 1
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £263 £473 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +16.11% +23.75%
75th Percentile £722 £623 -
90th Percentile - £636 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £575 £495
% change year-on-year -15.79% +16.11% +32.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,661 7,864 12,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 13.21% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,187 5,615 8,605
10th Percentile £199 £204 £200
25th Percentile £334 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 276 317
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.11 £13.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -45.00% +120.81% +2.93%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GPFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GPFS in the UK

GPFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GPFS in the UK

GPFS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GPFS over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GPFS in the UK

GPFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GPFS in the UK

GPFS
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPFS within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +29 6 £484 -15.79% 1
Scotland +20 4 £693 +17.06%
England +130 2 £275 -50.34% 3
East of England - 2 £275 -

GPFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (66.67%) SAS
2 2 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Python Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Flash
1 4 (66.67%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 4 (66.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Data ONTAP
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Capacity Management
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Observability
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 4 (66.67%) SDLC
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 3 (50.00%) Storage Virtualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Perl
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
1 4 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Brocade
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
1 4 (66.67%) NetApp
1 4 (66.67%) Sybase
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (33.33%) Dell