GPFS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GPFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GPFS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.15% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £608 - -
25th Percentile £611 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 - -
75th Percentile £623 - -
90th Percentile £624 - -
England median daily rate £638 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -19.19%

All System Software Skills
East of England

GPFS 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 179 135 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.40% 9.10% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 61 191
10th Percentile £199 £185 £165
25th Percentile £300 £220 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £495
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £675
90th Percentile £623 £600 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 16 37
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £15.63 £14.16 £21.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -38.46% +348.28%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £76.63 £84.36
England median hourly rate £34.50 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +11.29% -32.87% +102.99%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GPFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

GPFS job vacancy trend in the East of England

GPFS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPFS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 7 October 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire - 2 £619 - 1
GPFS
England

GPFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Lustre
1 2 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Salt
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform