Network File System (NFS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 635 716
Rank change year-on-year +98 +81 -80
Contract jobs citing NFS 61 84 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.31% 1.06% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 108
10th Percentile £289 £420 £375
25th Percentile £334 £518 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £583 £573
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% +1.83% +30.86%
75th Percentile £460 £587 £700
90th Percentile £667 £636 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £583 £450
% change year-on-year -26.24% +29.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
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 £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the UK

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +128 47 £405 -30.53% 8
UK excluding London +41 30 £430 -26.24% 7
London +108 23 £300 -48.72% 4
Work from Home +120 21 £405 -25.00% 2
North of England +50 18 £423 +0.60% 1
Yorkshire +37 18 £423 +0.60%
Scotland +15 7 £655 +14.75%
East of England +16 2 £350 - 1
South East +8 2 - - 2
South West - 1 £688 - 2

NFS
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 7 (11.48%) SAS
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) GitHub
1 20 (32.79%) PaaS
2 10 (16.39%) Azure
3 9 (14.75%) AWS
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (4.92%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.23%) FTP
2 12 (19.67%) iSCSI
3 9 (14.75%) DNS
4 7 (11.48%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (8.20%) Internet
5 5 (8.20%) SSH
5 5 (8.20%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.56%) Firewall
6 4 (6.56%) HTTP
6 4 (6.56%) SAN
6 4 (6.56%) VPN
7 3 (4.92%) BGP
8 2 (3.28%) DHCP
8 2 (3.28%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.64%) Kerberos
9 1 (1.64%) LAN
9 1 (1.64%) Network Security
9 1 (1.64%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.64%) VLAN
9 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.23%) Hadoop
2 4 (6.56%) DB2
3 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (32.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 2 (3.28%) GoCD
4 1 (1.64%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Public Sector
3 11 (18.03%) Finance
4 8 (13.11%) Electronics
4 8 (13.11%) Manufacturing
4 8 (13.11%) Marketing
4 8 (13.11%) Telecoms
5 5 (8.20%) Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Implementation Specialist
1 16 (26.23%) Storage Manager
2 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (9.84%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) IBM Storage Specialist
3 5 (8.20%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) Storage Specialist
4 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Lead
4 4 (6.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Python Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Administrator
5 2 (3.28%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) Linux Support
5 2 (3.28%) Senior
5 2 (3.28%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (34.43%) LDAP
2 19 (31.15%) YAML
3 7 (11.48%) Flash
3 7 (11.48%) POSIX
4 4 (6.56%) .NET
4 4 (6.56%) JSON
5 3 (4.92%) SAML
6 2 (3.28%) CSS
7 1 (1.64%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.64%) LAMP
7 1 (1.64%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.64%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.51%) Data Centre
2 16 (26.23%) Replication
3 5 (8.20%) NVMe
4 4 (6.56%) Client/Server
5 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (86.89%) Linux
2 28 (45.90%) Windows
3 24 (39.34%) Unix
4 22 (36.07%) zOS
5 10 (16.39%) Windows Server
6 7 (11.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (6.56%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.64%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) Storage Management
2 26 (42.62%) Problem Management
3 23 (37.70%) Agile
4 21 (34.43%) Capacity Management
5 19 (31.15%) Project Management
6 18 (29.51%) Migration
7 17 (27.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (21.31%) Cost Management
8 13 (21.31%) Software Testing
8 13 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.75%) Computer Science
9 9 (14.75%) DevOps
10 8 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (13.11%) Digital Marketing
10 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (13.11%) Programme Management
11 7 (11.48%) SDLC
12 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (8.20%) Observability
12 5 (8.20%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.82%) Python
2 22 (36.07%) JCL
3 19 (31.15%) REXX
4 8 (13.11%) Java
5 7 (11.48%) Perl
5 7 (11.48%) SQL
6 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.56%) C#
8 3 (4.92%) Bash
9 2 (3.28%) Korn
9 2 (3.28%) tcsh
10 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.28%) Degree
1 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.64%) HNC
2 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 22 (36.07%) Time Sharing Option
2 21 (34.43%) Active Directory
3 16 (26.23%) HDFS
4 6 (9.84%) Docker
5 4 (6.56%) GPFS
5 4 (6.56%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.92%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.28%) Ceph
7 2 (3.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (1.64%) iptables
8 1 (1.64%) KVM
8 1 (1.64%) Lustre
8 1 (1.64%) Samba
8 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (37.70%) Ansible
2 21 (34.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 3 (4.92%) vRealize
6 2 (3.28%) Puppet
6 2 (3.28%) systemd
6 2 (3.28%) Terraform
7 1 (1.64%) CFEngine
7 1 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.64%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.64%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.64%) Mesos
7 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.64%) SCOM
7 1 (1.64%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (47.54%) Dell
2 26 (42.62%) Brocade
2 26 (42.62%) IBM
3 22 (36.07%) Broadcom
3 22 (36.07%) CA
4 16 (26.23%) Isilon
5 8 (13.11%) SAP
6 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
6 5 (8.20%) VMware
7 4 (6.56%) EMC
7 4 (6.56%) Google
7 4 (6.56%) NetApp
7 4 (6.56%) Sybase
7 4 (6.56%) Veritas
8 3 (4.92%) Aruba
8 3 (4.92%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.64%) BMC
9 1 (1.64%) Citrix
9 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA