The first table below looks at the demand for NFS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited NFS over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network File System (NFS)
Rank 151 142 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Permanent jobs citing NFS 3 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.094% 0.314% -
As % of the System Software category 1.190% 3.667% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Average salary £32,500 £27,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.22% +3.33%
All System Software
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
252 300 203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 7.897% 8.571% 5.937%
Number of salaries quoted 152 199 150
Average salary £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.40% -1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £22,400
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
NFS
UK

NFS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Dundee - 1 £32,500 -
West Lothian - 1 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
NFS
UK

NFS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 13 (86.67%) SAN
2 12 (80.00%) NetApp
3 11 (73.33%) Windows
3 11 (73.33%) NAS
4 10 (66.67%) Linux
4 10 (66.67%) Cisco
5 9 (60.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (60.00%) UNIX
5 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (60.00%) Replication
5 9 (60.00%) Brocade
6 8 (53.33%) Symmetrix
6 8 (53.33%) EMC TimeFinder
6 8 (53.33%) EMC
6 8 (53.33%) SQL
6 8 (53.33%) Broadband
6 8 (53.33%) Oracle
6 8 (53.33%) Symmetrix DMX
6 8 (53.33%) SRDF
6 8 (53.33%) Ionix
7 7 (46.67%) Celerra
8 6 (40.00%) ITSM
9 5 (33.33%) Workflow
9 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
9 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
9 5 (33.33%) Change Management
9 5 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
9 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (26.67%) Degree
11 3 (20.00%) Service Management

NFS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (6.667%) CGI
1 1 (6.667%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) SAN
2 11 (73.33%) NAS
3 8 (53.33%) Broadband
4 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) DNS
5 1 (6.667%) LDAP
5 1 (6.667%) LAN
5 1 (6.667%) DHCP
5 1 (6.667%) VPN
5 1 (6.667%) SSH
5 1 (6.667%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MySQL
General
1 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) SAN Storage Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Storage Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Senior Storage Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) SAN Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Storage Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) SAN Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) SAN Storage Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Storage Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Replication
2 8 (53.33%) Symmetrix
2 8 (53.33%) Symmetrix DMX
3 7 (46.67%) Celerra
4 1 (6.667%) EMV
4 1 (6.667%) Blackberry
4 1 (6.667%) Clustering
4 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Linux
3 9 (60.00%) UNIX
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (6.667%) Debian
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (40.00%) ITSM
3 5 (33.33%) Workflow
3 5 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.667%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) Perl
2 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (53.33%) SRDF
3 2 (13.33%) vSphere
3 2 (13.33%) Samba
4 1 (6.667%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) EMC TimeFinder
1 8 (53.33%) Ionix
2 1 (6.667%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.667%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) NetApp
2 10 (66.67%) Cisco
3 9 (60.00%) Brocade
4 8 (53.33%) EMC
4 8 (53.33%) Oracle
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) Sun
6 2 (13.33%) IBM
6 2 (13.33%) HP
7 1 (6.667%) Citrix
7 1 (6.667%) StorageTek
7 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
7 1 (6.667%) Symantec
7 1 (6.667%) Hitachi