Network File System (NFS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NFS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 860 928 1161
Rank change year-on-year +68 +233 -308
Permanent jobs citing NFS 36 42 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.040% 0.046%
As % of the System Software category 0.29% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20 36 51
10th Percentile £37,125 £46,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £61,875 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +38.46% +26.83%
75th Percentile £80,938 £98,125 £79,375
90th Percentile £106,625 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £61,750
% change year-on-year -7.22% -21.46% +46.15%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,249 16,035 28,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 15.32% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 10,596 15,794
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NFS.

Salary trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for NFS in the UK

NFS
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +107 36 £62,500 -30.56% 8
Work from Home +99 24 £45,000 -50.00% 2
UK excluding London +20 22 £45,000 -7.22% 7
London +135 14 £77,500 -22.50% 4
South East +39 11 £40,000 -27.27% 2
West Midlands +30 8 £45,000 -
Midlands +10 8 £45,000 -
South West -6 2 £37,500 -22.68% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1

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 (19.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) GitHub
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.89%) OneDrive
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.56%) Anthos
7 2 (5.56%) AWS
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.56%) PaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (52.78%) DNS
2 17 (47.22%) Firewall
3 16 (44.44%) DHCP
4 14 (38.89%) SAN
5 13 (36.11%) VPN
6 11 (30.56%) WAN
7 10 (27.78%) 5G
8 8 (22.22%) iSCSI
8 8 (22.22%) TCP/IP
9 6 (16.67%) LAN
9 6 (16.67%) VLAN
10 3 (8.33%) SSH
11 2 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (5.56%) HTTP
11 2 (5.56%) Internet
11 2 (5.56%) NAS
12 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (2.78%) Wireless
12 1 (2.78%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.78%) Git
2 10 (27.78%) JIRA
2 10 (27.78%) Trac
General
1 13 (36.11%) Telecoms
2 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Electronics
5 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Support Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Technical Support
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Support
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Junior
7 3 (8.33%) Junior Linux Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Systems Support
8 2 (5.56%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) LDAP
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (61.11%) Linux
2 18 (50.00%) Windows
3 17 (47.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (13.89%) CentOS
5 3 (8.33%) zOS
6 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) DevOps
1 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
3 10 (27.78%) Configuration Management
3 10 (27.78%) Validation
4 5 (13.89%) Investment Management
4 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (13.89%) Storage Management
5 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 4 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (8.33%) Architectural Design
6 3 (8.33%) Data Management
6 3 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (8.33%) Problem Management
6 3 (8.33%) Programme Management
6 3 (8.33%) Time Management
6 3 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Python
2 16 (44.44%) PowerShell
3 10 (27.78%) Bash
4 3 (8.33%) JCL
5 2 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) Korn
6 1 (2.78%) REXX
6 1 (2.78%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Hyper-V
2 18 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (33.33%) Docker
3 12 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (27.78%) pfSense
5 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (8.33%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (5.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (52.78%) Ansible
2 12 (33.33%) Grafana
3 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 10 (27.78%) SCDPM
3 10 (27.78%) ZABBIX
4 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.56%) Nagios
6 1 (2.78%) Istio
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.78%) SCCM
6 1 (2.78%) systemd
6 1 (2.78%) Terraform
6 1 (2.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) VMware
2 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
3 10 (27.78%) Fortinet
3 10 (27.78%) Juniper
3 10 (27.78%) McAfee
3 10 (27.78%) Veeam
4 6 (16.67%) Brocade
4 6 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 5 (13.89%) Dell
5 5 (13.89%) IBM
5 5 (13.89%) Intel
6 3 (8.33%) Broadcom
6 3 (8.33%) CA
6 3 (8.33%) SAP
7 2 (5.56%) HP
7 2 (5.56%) NetApp
8 1 (2.78%) EMC
8 1 (2.78%) F5