NFS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Network File System (NFS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England citing NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	113	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing NFS	8	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England	0.34%	-	-
As % of the System Software category	2.86%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£506	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£513	-	-
75^th Percentile	£519	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median daily rate	£465	£625	£500
% change year-on-year	-25.60%	+25.00%	-13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	0	0
10^th Percentile	£81.86	-	-
25^th Percentile	£84.69	-	-
Median hourly rate	£92.11	-	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	£92.11	-	-

All System Software Skills
East of England

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

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	280	203	130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England	11.89%	14.31%	9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted	129	96	50
10^th Percentile	£177	£185	£185
25^th Percentile	£240	£220	£227
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£452	£381
Median % change year-on-year	-5.97%	+18.56%	-23.75%
75^th Percentile	£550	£575	£536
90^th Percentile	£713	£622	£614
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£513
% change year-on-year	-	-2.44%	+2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	64	45	16
10^th Percentile	£51.59	£12.84	£21.46
25^th Percentile	£67.25	£15.50	£27.87
Median hourly rate	£70.50	£54.00	£56.25
Median % change year-on-year	+30.56%	-4.00%	-13.46%
75^th Percentile	£74.49	£80.00	£67.81
90^th Percentile	£90.00	£91.50	£75.00
England median hourly rate	£63.14	£30.00	£51.25
% change year-on-year	+110.45%	-41.46%	+17.14%

NFS Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

NFS Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NFS.

NFS Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing NFS.

NFS 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 NFS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Hertfordshire	-	7	-	-	3
Cambridgeshire	-	1	£513	-
NFS England

NFS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 3 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing NFS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region citing NFS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	LDAP	100.0%	8
2	Active Directory	87.5%	7
2	AI	87.5%	7
2	Cybersecurity	87.5%	7
2	HTTP	87.5%	7
2	Hyper-V	87.5%	7
2	IIS	87.5%	7
2	JSON	87.5%	7
2	Machine Learning	87.5%	7
2	Network Packet Capture	87.5%	7
2	PowerShell	87.5%	7
2	Python	87.5%	7
2	Regular Expression	87.5%	7
2	Root Cause Analysis	87.5%	7
2	SIEM	87.5%	7
2	Threat Detection	87.5%	7
2	Virtual Machines	87.5%	7
2	VMware	87.5%	7
2	VMware Infrastructure	87.5%	7
2	Windows	87.5%	7
21	Data Modelling	75.0%	6
21	Red Team	75.0%	6
21	Roadmaps	75.0%	6
24	DV Cleared	62.5%	5
24	Security Cleared	62.5%	5
26	SC Cleared	50.0%	4
27	Infrastructure Engineering	25.0%	2
27	Security Operations	25.0%	2
29	Ansible	12.5%	1
29	Business Strategy	12.5%	1

NFS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Active Directory	87.5%	7
1	Hyper-V	87.5%	7
1	Virtual Machines	87.5%	7
1	VMware Infrastructure	87.5%	7
5	Slurm Workload Manager	12.5%	1