NFS Contract Job Trends in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 445 486
Rank change year-on-year -64 +41 +114
Contract jobs citing NFS 79 23 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.095% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.88% 0.76% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 13 26
10th Percentile £368 £325 £281
25th Percentile £413 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £395
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +45.57% -32.25%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £430
90th Percentile £600 - £536
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £405
% change year-on-year -5.71% +29.63% -30.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £47.50

All System Software Skills
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 requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,205 3,026 3,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.32% 12.51% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,848 2,087 2,760
10th Percentile £213 £212 £200
25th Percentile £400 £381 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £709 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 68 208
10th Percentile £17.92 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.66 £17.45 £14.48
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.86% +34.31% -58.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £88.23 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% +24.44% -58.33%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

NFS job vacancy trend in England

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NFS

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in England

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing NFS

NFS
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 NFS within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
North of England - 29 £494 - 1
Yorkshire - 24 £500 - 1
London -48 22 £525 -21.64% 2
Midlands - 20 £402 -
West Midlands - 19 £402 -
South East -67 5 £675 +12.50% 1
North West - 5 £383 -
South West -28 3 - - 2
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 6 (7.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.24%) AWS
2 20 (25.32%) Azure
2 20 (25.32%) OpenShift
3 7 (8.86%) PaaS
4 5 (6.33%) GCP
4 5 (6.33%) IaaS
5 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (3.80%) Cohesity
6 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.80%) Rubrik
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub
8 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.27%) Datadog
8 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (40.51%) SAN
2 29 (36.71%) NAS
3 15 (18.99%) iSCSI
4 13 (16.46%) DNS
5 11 (13.92%) Fibre Channel
6 9 (11.39%) VSAN
7 6 (7.59%) DHCP
8 4 (5.06%) Kerberos
8 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
9 3 (3.80%) Firewall
9 3 (3.80%) FTP
9 3 (3.80%) VLAN
10 2 (2.53%) Network Security
10 2 (2.53%) SMTP
10 2 (2.53%) SSH
10 2 (2.53%) Telnet
10 2 (2.53%) VPN
11 1 (1.27%) LAN
11 1 (1.27%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) MySQL
1 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.27%) DB2
2 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.06%) Git
General
1 15 (18.99%) Banking
2 13 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Finance
4 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Analyst
2 19 (24.05%) Storage Analyst
3 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 12 (15.19%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Architect
6 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) NetApp Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Subject Matter Expert
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Senior
8 4 (5.06%) Storage Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Consultant
10 2 (2.53%) Storage Architect
10 2 (2.53%) VMware Architect
10 2 (2.53%) Wintel Analyst
11 1 (1.27%) Infrastructure Support
11 1 (1.27%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (1.27%) Major Incident Manager
11 1 (1.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.11%) Flash
2 4 (5.06%) LDAP
3 2 (2.53%) Web Services
4 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.27%) LAMP
4 1 (1.27%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (1.27%) libvirt
4 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (56.96%) Replication
2 22 (27.85%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (20.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.33%) FlexPod
4 5 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.80%) Clustering
5 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.27%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.27%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 44 (55.70%) Linux
2 15 (18.99%) Unix
3 11 (13.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (12.66%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (7.59%) VMS
6 5 (6.33%) CoreOS
7 4 (5.06%) Windows
7 4 (5.06%) zOS
8 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
9 2 (2.53%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.27%) AIX
10 1 (1.27%) CentOS
10 1 (1.27%) Rocky
10 1 (1.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) Migration
2 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (25.32%) Agile
3 20 (25.32%) Performance Tuning
4 19 (24.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (22.78%) Data Protection
6 17 (21.52%) Ticket Management
7 16 (20.25%) Capacity Planning
8 13 (16.46%) Containerisation
9 12 (15.19%) High Availability
10 11 (13.92%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (12.66%) Storage Management
11 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (11.39%) Data Migration
12 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (10.13%) Problem Management
13 8 (10.13%) Runbook
14 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Automation
14 7 (8.86%) Task Automation
15 6 (7.59%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.66%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) Bash
3 4 (5.06%) JCL
3 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.80%) Ruby
5 2 (2.53%) Perl
6 1 (1.27%) Korn
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) OCP
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) NCDA
4 1 (1.27%) NCIE
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 39 (49.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (29.11%) GPFS
2 23 (29.11%) vSphere
3 20 (25.32%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (10.13%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (6.33%) Postfix
5 5 (6.33%) Varnish
6 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
6 4 (5.06%) Sendmail
6 4 (5.06%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (2.53%) Docker
7 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.53%) KVM
7 2 (2.53%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.27%) Ceph
8 1 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (1.27%) Firmware
8 1 (1.27%) Samba
8 1 (1.27%) SRDF
8 1 (1.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (24.05%) vRealize
2 17 (21.52%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.72%) Ansible
4 10 (12.66%) SnapMirror
5 9 (11.39%) EMC VPLEX
6 8 (10.13%) Terraform
6 8 (10.13%) vMotion
6 8 (10.13%) VxRail
7 6 (7.59%) HAProxy
8 5 (6.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (2.53%) Grafana
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (2.53%) SELinux
9 2 (2.53%) SnapVault
9 2 (2.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (1.27%) PowerBroker
10 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (54.43%) VMware
2 32 (40.51%) IBM
3 25 (31.65%) Oracle
4 23 (29.11%) ServiceNow
5 20 (25.32%) Cisco
6 18 (22.78%) NetApp
7 17 (21.52%) Pure Storage
8 10 (12.66%) Red Hat
9 8 (10.13%) Commvault
10 7 (8.86%) Brocade
10 7 (8.86%) Dell
11 6 (7.59%) EMC
11 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
12 5 (6.33%) Google
13 4 (5.06%) Broadcom
14 3 (3.80%) Isilon
15 2 (2.53%) Citrix
16 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
16 1 (1.27%) Remedy
16 1 (1.27%) Sybase