GPFS Contracts in England

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GPFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GPFS over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 - 627
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing GPFS 12 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% - 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.36% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.19%
75th Percentile £675 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 - £592
% change year-on-year - - +24.63%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,316 3,869 5,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.02% 11.59% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,695 4,038
10th Percentile £225 £225 £200
25th Percentile £385 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £644
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 132 216
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.06 £14.57
25th Percentile £22.88 £15.36 £17.69
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.82% -40.50% +86.05%
75th Percentile £80.25 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £73.05 £76.75
UK median hourly rate £32.77 £23.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.69% -52.40% +132.56%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GPFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GPFS in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GPFS in England.

Daily rate trend for GPFS in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GPFS in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GPFS in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GPFS in England.

Hourly rate trend for GPFS in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
London - 11 £650 - 6
South East - 1 £475 - 1
GPFS
UK

GPFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Research Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Database Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) DBA
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Clustering
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Contract for Difference
3 1 (8.33%) NVMe
3 1 (8.33%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Biomedicine
2 2 (16.67%) High Availability
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (16.67%) Runbook
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Server Management
3 1 (8.33%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) AWK
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) sed
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
2 1 (8.33%) Python
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (16.67%) NFS
3 1 (8.33%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Mellanox
3 1 (8.33%) Solarflare
3 1 (8.33%) Sun