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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 871 957 1160
Rank change year-on-year +86 +203 -296
Permanent jobs citing NFS 36 38 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.037% 0.048%
As % of the System Software category 0.30% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 20 36 52
10th Percentile £33,750 £46,750 £46,159
25th Percentile £41,250 £58,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +38.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £77,188 £96,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,125 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £48,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year -12.37% -18.14% +39.41%

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 12,056 15,557 28,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.24% 15.32% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,543 10,268 15,675
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,336 £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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +88 36 £52,500 -41.67% 7
Work from Home +83 23 £45,000 -50.00%
UK excluding London +1 23 £42,500 -12.37% 4
London +124 13 £75,000 -25.00% 2
South East +30 11 £40,000 -27.27% 2
West Midlands +22 7 £45,000 -
Midlands +7 7 £45,000 -
South West -33 4 £37,500 -22.68% 1
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 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (11.11%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2007
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 7 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.89%) OneDrive
6 2 (5.56%) Anthos
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.78%) AWS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (55.56%) DNS
2 17 (47.22%) Firewall
3 16 (44.44%) DHCP
4 14 (38.89%) VPN
5 12 (33.33%) SAN
6 10 (27.78%) 5G
7 9 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 9 (25.00%) WAN
8 8 (22.22%) iSCSI
9 6 (16.67%) VLAN
10 4 (11.11%) LAN
11 3 (8.33%) SSH
12 2 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (5.56%) HTTP
12 2 (5.56%) Internet
12 2 (5.56%) NAS
13 1 (2.78%) Cisco Firepower
13 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (2.78%) Wireless
13 1 (2.78%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
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 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Electronics
5 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Research Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Technical Support
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Technical Support
5 4 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Junior
6 3 (8.33%) Junior Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Storage 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 23 (63.89%) Linux
2 18 (50.00%) Windows
3 16 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.11%) Ubuntu
5 3 (8.33%) CentOS
5 3 (8.33%) zOS
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (36.11%) DevOps
2 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
3 10 (27.78%) Configuration Management
3 10 (27.78%) Validation
4 7 (19.44%) Storage Management
5 5 (13.89%) Data Management
5 5 (13.89%) Visualisation
6 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 3 (8.33%) Agile
7 3 (8.33%) Architectural Design
7 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
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 18 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 18 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 14 (38.89%) Docker
2 14 (38.89%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (27.78%) pfSense
4 8 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (52.78%) Ansible
2 14 (38.89%) Grafana
3 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 10 (27.78%) SCDPM
3 10 (27.78%) ZABBIX
4 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 4 (11.11%) Nagios
6 1 (2.78%) HAProxy
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
6 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (66.67%) VMware
2 20 (55.56%) 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
5 5 (13.89%) IBM
5 5 (13.89%) Red Hat
6 4 (11.11%) Dell
7 3 (8.33%) Broadcom
7 3 (8.33%) CA
7 3 (8.33%) Intel
7 3 (8.33%) SAP
8 2 (5.56%) F5
9 1 (2.78%) Cisco
9 1 (2.78%) EMC
9 1 (2.78%) HP
9 1 (2.78%) Imperva
9 1 (2.78%) NetApp