The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 24 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 West Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank 86 90 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing NFS 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.159% 0.064% -
As % of the System Software category 1.739% 0.893% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £138 - -
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
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
115 112 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 9.163% 7.157% 7.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 25
Average daily rate £250 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% -16.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 17
Average hourly rate £16.50 £12.75 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.41% -39.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £10.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £30.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
NFS
Yorkshire

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire NFS Daily 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Halifax - 2 £138 -
NFS
Yorkshire

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
1 3 (42.86%) NetApp
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
1 3 (42.86%) Amdocs
1 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
2 2 (28.57%) Xen
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
2 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (28.57%) ARCserve
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
1 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) NAS
2 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Time Management
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) Xen
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
1 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
1 2 (28.57%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) NetApp
1 3 (42.86%) Amdocs
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Brocade