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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 471 514
Rank change year-on-year -25 +43 +177
Contract jobs citing NFS 48 36 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.23% 1.00% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 30
10th Percentile £315 £366 £400
25th Percentile £487 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £501 £581
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -13.89% +10.71%
75th Percentile £650 £544 £623
90th Percentile £660 £595 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.89% +11.90%

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 3,888 3,606 4,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.56% 11.89% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,578 2,323 3,396
10th Percentile £206 £210 £195
25th Percentile £400 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £618
90th Percentile £688 £724 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 82 234
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.51 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £30.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year +9.46% -30.35% +73.44%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 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
South East -8 21 £650 +23.81% 2
West Midlands - 12 £309 - 1
Midlands - 12 £309 - 1
London -9 7 £650 +29.94%
North of England -37 5 £487 +116.44% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £487 - 4
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 1 (2.08%) Apache
1 1 (2.08%) CICS
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (10.42%) GitHub
4 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (41.67%) iSCSI
2 17 (35.42%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (16.67%) DNS
4 6 (12.50%) NAS
4 6 (12.50%) SAN
5 5 (10.42%) DHCP
5 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
5 5 (10.42%) VSAN
6 2 (4.17%) Firewall
6 2 (4.17%) LAN
6 2 (4.17%) WAN
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.08%) FCoE
7 1 (2.08%) FTP
7 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.08%) Multicast
7 1 (2.08%) SMTP
7 1 (2.08%) SSH
7 1 (2.08%) Telnet
7 1 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
1 4 (8.33%) Subversion
1 4 (8.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (18.75%) Finance
2 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Architect
2 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure Architect
3 11 (22.92%) VMware Architect
4 9 (18.75%) Administrator
4 9 (18.75%) Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) Storage Analyst
6 6 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) DBA
8 4 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (6.25%) Server Administrator
10 2 (4.17%) Database Specialist
10 2 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL Specialist
10 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
11 1 (2.08%) NetApp Engineer
11 1 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
11 1 (2.08%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) Flash
2 4 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (4.17%) LDAP
4 1 (2.08%) LAMP
4 1 (2.08%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.08%) libvirt
4 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (52.08%) Replication
2 12 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (14.58%) Clustering
4 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Linux
2 18 (37.50%) Windows
3 15 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 15 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (16.67%) Solaris
5 6 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.33%) Unix
7 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.08%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (2.08%) MVS
8 1 (2.08%) VMS
8 1 (2.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Agile
1 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (22.92%) High Availability
2 11 (22.92%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (18.75%) Migration
4 8 (16.67%) DevOps
4 8 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (16.67%) Ticket Management
5 7 (14.58%) Customer Requirements
5 7 (14.58%) Data Protection
5 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.42%) Edge Virtualization
6 5 (10.42%) Performance Analysis
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.33%) Kernel Tuning
7 4 (8.33%) Operational Stability
7 4 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.33%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) SQL
2 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.58%) Bash
4 5 (10.42%) Perl
4 5 (10.42%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) AWK
5 2 (4.17%) sed
6 1 (2.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) MCSE
2 12 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (12.50%) VCP5
3 6 (12.50%) VCP6
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
1 4 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (64.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (60.42%) VMware ESXi
3 24 (50.00%) vSphere
4 14 (29.17%) GPFS
5 4 (8.33%) Veritas File System
5 4 (8.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
6 3 (6.25%) VMware NSX
7 2 (4.17%) KVM
7 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.08%) Ceph
8 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
8 1 (2.08%) iptables
8 1 (2.08%) Lustre
8 1 (2.08%) Samba
8 1 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (2.08%) SRDF
8 1 (2.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (2.08%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) vRealize
2 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Terraform
4 4 (8.33%) QRadar
4 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (6.25%) WSUS
6 2 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.08%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.08%) Puppet
7 1 (2.08%) SELinux
7 1 (2.08%) SnapMirror
7 1 (2.08%) SnapVault
7 1 (2.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (70.83%) VMware
2 18 (37.50%) NetApp
2 18 (37.50%) Oracle
3 17 (35.42%) IBM
4 16 (33.33%) Splunk
5 13 (27.08%) Cisco
5 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
6 12 (25.00%) ServiceNow
6 12 (25.00%) Veeam
7 6 (12.50%) Red Hat
8 5 (10.42%) EMC
9 4 (8.33%) CyberArk
9 4 (8.33%) Qualys
9 4 (8.33%) SaltStack
10 1 (2.08%) Citrix
10 1 (2.08%) F5
10 1 (2.08%) Google
10 1 (2.08%) Pure Storage