NFS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Network File System (NFS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 128 121 120
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +52
Contract jobs citing NFS 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.097% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 1.25% 0.94% 2.02%
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
Central London median daily rate £465 £585 £385
% change year-on-year -20.55% +52.01% -35.83%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 160 213 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.75% 11.77% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 138 184
10th Percentile £246 £233 £243
25th Percentile £388 £404 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +11.28% -11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £678 £725 £729
Central London median daily rate £525 £528 £475
% change year-on-year -0.47% +11.05% -11.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £112.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.27% +180.00% +119.57%
75th Percentile £50.72 £149.75 -
90th Percentile £56.12 £172.40 £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -77.26% +180.00% +92.77%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

NFS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NFS

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NFS

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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