NFS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Network File System (NFS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 126 131
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +48
Contract jobs citing NFS 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.089% 0.098% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 1.10% 0.81% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £517 -
25th Percentile - £543 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £585 £385
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +52.01% -35.83%
75th Percentile - £628 £388
90th Percentile - £653 £598
London median daily rate £525 £585 £385
% change year-on-year -10.29% +52.01% -34.19%

All System Software Skills
Central London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 182 248 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.14% 12.09% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 164 206
10th Percentile £253 £219 £216
25th Percentile £406 £384 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +11.05% -11.71%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £701 £718
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £22.68 £48.48 -
25th Percentile - £89.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +180.00% +92.77%
75th Percentile - £130.88 -
90th Percentile £46.02 £164.85 £46.15
London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £22.40
% change year-on-year -12.38% +28.15% -18.55%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

NFS job vacancy trend in Central London

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NFS

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing NFS

NFS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -7 2 £465 -20.55% 1
NFS
London

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cohesity
1 1 (50.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 1 (50.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (50.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Pure Storage