The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 21 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank 247 238 225
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -13
Permanent jobs citing NFS 7 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.097% 0.099% 0.103%
As % of the System Software category 1.354% 0.986% 1.190%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 5
Average salary £37,500 £33,750 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +3.84%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +1.29%
All System Software
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
517 710 588
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 7.168% 10.02% 8.687%
Number of salaries quoted 403 651 493
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
NFS
England

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West NFS Jobs Demand Trend

NFS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing NFS across the North West region.

North West NFS Salary Trend

NFS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -13 6 £37,500 +10.29%
Cheshire - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
NFS
England

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited NFS.

1 15 (71.43%) Cisco
1 15 (71.43%) VMware
1 15 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 15 (71.43%) Fibre Channel
2 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 13 (61.90%) NetApp
3 13 (61.90%) ITIL
3 13 (61.90%) Windows
4 12 (57.14%) Linux
4 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
5 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
6 7 (33.33%) Legal
6 7 (33.33%) SQL
6 7 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (33.33%) Time Management
7 6 (28.57%) iSCSI
7 6 (28.57%) Billing
7 6 (28.57%) Subversion
7 6 (28.57%) SSH
7 6 (28.57%) assyst
7 6 (28.57%) SpamAssassin
7 6 (28.57%) MRTG
7 6 (28.57%) FreeRADIUS
7 6 (28.57%) Cacti
7 6 (28.57%) Sendmail
7 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (28.57%) SolarWinds
7 6 (28.57%) SolarWinds Orion

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 IT job ads sampled that cited NFS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) XML
Application Platforms
1 14 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 7 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (28.57%) IIS
3 6 (28.57%) Apache
4 5 (23.81%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (4.762%) SAS
5 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (28.57%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (28.57%) iSCSI
2 6 (28.57%) SSH
2 6 (28.57%) MRTG
2 6 (28.57%) SAN
2 6 (28.57%) VoIP
2 6 (28.57%) DNS
2 6 (28.57%) TACACS
2 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (4.762%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.762%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MySQL
1 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 7 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 7 (33.33%) Legal
2 6 (28.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Technical Support
3 6 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (23.81%) Service Manager
4 5 (23.81%) Storage Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Technical Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.762%) Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.762%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Data Centre Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Clustering
2 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.762%) CLARiiON
2 1 (4.762%) EMC Centera
2 1 (4.762%) Replication
2 1 (4.762%) Statistics
2 1 (4.762%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Linux
3 11 (52.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (28.57%) UNIX
5 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.762%) AIX
6 1 (4.762%) HPUX
6 1 (4.762%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) ITIL
2 7 (33.33%) Time Management
3 6 (28.57%) Project Management
4 5 (23.81%) High Availability
5 1 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.762%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.762%) Change Control
5 1 (4.762%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) C
2 6 (28.57%) C++
2 6 (28.57%) Perl
2 6 (28.57%) PHP
3 5 (23.81%) VB
3 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (9.524%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.762%) EMC Certification
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 6 (28.57%) SpamAssassin
3 6 (28.57%) FreeRADIUS
3 6 (28.57%) Sendmail
4 1 (4.762%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.762%) vSphere
4 1 (4.762%) XenApp
4 1 (4.762%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Cacti
1 6 (28.57%) SolarWinds Orion
1 6 (28.57%) OpenView
1 6 (28.57%) NetBackup
1 6 (28.57%) Nagios
2 2 (9.524%) SCCM
3 1 (4.762%) Backup Exec
3 1 (4.762%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Cisco
1 15 (71.43%) VMware
2 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (61.90%) NetApp
4 6 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 6 (28.57%) HP
5 5 (23.81%) Symantec
5 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.762%) EMC
6 1 (4.762%) Citrix