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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 486 511
Rank change year-on-year -46 +25 +63
Contract jobs citing NFS 67 25 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.092% 0.099%
As % of the System Software category 1.49% 0.76% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 21 18
10th Percentile £323 £325 £261
25th Percentile £413 £600 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £325
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +100.00% -44.25%
75th Percentile £543 - £388
90th Percentile £591 - £488
UK median daily rate £500 £638 £350
% change year-on-year -21.57% +82.14% -40.07%
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 4,503 3,269 4,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.04% 12.00% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,135 2,838
10th Percentile £213 £217 £219
25th Percentile £400 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 86 172
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% +60.06% -44.44%
75th Percentile £74.26 £79.68 £58.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £90.57 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.15
% change year-on-year +67.28% +35.57% -53.70%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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
London -37 28 £500 -23.08% 2
North of England - 25 £492 -
Yorkshire - 18 £500 -
Midlands - 11 £400 -
West Midlands - 9 £400 -
North West - 7 £450 -
South West -35 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £205 -
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 7 (10.45%) Apache
2 2 (2.99%) CloudStack
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) AWS
2 23 (34.33%) Azure
3 13 (19.40%) OpenShift
4 9 (13.43%) IaaS
4 9 (13.43%) PaaS
5 5 (7.46%) GCP
5 5 (7.46%) SaaS
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.97%) GitHub
7 3 (4.48%) Cohesity
7 3 (4.48%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.99%) Datadog
8 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.49%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (41.79%) SAN
2 25 (37.31%) NAS
3 18 (26.87%) DNS
4 8 (11.94%) DHCP
4 8 (11.94%) VSAN
5 7 (10.45%) Kerberos
6 6 (8.96%) Firewall
7 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
7 4 (5.97%) VLAN
8 3 (4.48%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (4.48%) FTP
8 3 (4.48%) iSCSI
8 3 (4.48%) Network Security
9 2 (2.99%) VPN
9 2 (2.99%) VXLAN
9 2 (2.99%) WAN
10 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
10 1 (1.49%) LAN
10 1 (1.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Db2
2 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.49%) MySQL
2 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.46%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) Subversion
General
1 16 (23.88%) Banking
2 13 (19.40%) Finance
3 12 (17.91%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (16.42%) Storage Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Analyst
2 9 (13.43%) Storage Analyst
3 8 (11.94%) Architect
3 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) NetApp Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Incident Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Major Incident Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Storage Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Subject Matter Expert
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Production Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Storage Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Support Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) Flash
2 7 (10.45%) LDAP
3 4 (5.97%) Middleware
4 2 (2.99%) cloud-init
4 2 (2.99%) Web Services
4 2 (2.99%) YAML
5 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (40.30%) Replication
2 12 (17.91%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (16.42%) Data Centre
4 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (8.96%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (8.96%) Mainframe
6 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (7.46%) FlexPod
6 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (7.46%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.97%) PKI
8 3 (4.48%) Clustering
9 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.99%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (2.99%) EMC VNX
9 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 39 (58.21%) Linux
2 18 (26.87%) Unix
3 13 (19.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (14.93%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (10.45%) Windows
6 5 (7.46%) CoreOS
6 5 (7.46%) VMS
6 5 (7.46%) zOS
7 4 (5.97%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.48%) AIX
9 1 (1.49%) CentOS
9 1 (1.49%) Rocky
9 1 (1.49%) SUSE
9 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.27%) Migration
2 15 (22.39%) Storage Management
3 14 (20.90%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (19.40%) Agile
4 13 (19.40%) Data Protection
4 13 (19.40%) Problem Management
5 11 (16.42%) Capacity Planning
5 11 (16.42%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (14.93%) Data Migration
6 10 (14.93%) ITIL
6 10 (14.93%) Operational Stability
7 9 (13.43%) Runbook
7 9 (13.43%) Ticket Management
8 7 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.45%) Task Automation
9 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (8.96%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) Python
2 10 (14.93%) Bash
3 5 (7.46%) JCL
4 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.48%) Ruby
6 2 (2.99%) REXX
7 1 (1.49%) Java
7 1 (1.49%) Korn
7 1 (1.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) OCP
3 5 (7.46%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (5.97%) Degree
4 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) NCDA
5 2 (2.99%) NCIE
5 2 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.49%) MCSA
6 1 (1.49%) MCSE
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) COBIT
System Software
1 31 (46.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (23.88%) vSphere
3 13 (19.40%) GPFS
4 12 (17.91%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (13.43%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (10.45%) Active Directory
7 5 (7.46%) Postfix
7 5 (7.46%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (7.46%) Varnish
8 4 (5.97%) Sendmail
9 3 (4.48%) Hyper-V
9 3 (4.48%) KVM
9 3 (4.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (2.99%) Ceph
10 2 (2.99%) Docker
10 2 (2.99%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.99%) SRDF
11 1 (1.49%) Firmware
11 1 (1.49%) Samba
11 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Ansible
2 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.42%) Terraform
4 10 (14.93%) EMC VPLEX
4 10 (14.93%) SnapMirror
5 9 (13.43%) vRealize
6 8 (11.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 8 (11.94%) vMotion
7 7 (10.45%) VxRail
8 5 (7.46%) HAProxy
9 4 (5.97%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
9 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
10 3 (4.48%) Grafana
10 3 (4.48%) PowerBroker
10 3 (4.48%) SELinux
10 3 (4.48%) Tivoli
10 3 (4.48%) vCenter Server
11 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (2.99%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 33 (49.25%) VMware
2 18 (26.87%) IBM
3 17 (25.37%) Oracle
4 15 (22.39%) Pure Storage
5 14 (20.90%) NetApp
6 13 (19.40%) Cisco
6 13 (19.40%) Red Hat
6 13 (19.40%) ServiceNow
7 10 (14.93%) Dell
8 9 (13.43%) Brocade
9 8 (11.94%) Commvault
10 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
11 5 (7.46%) Broadcom
11 5 (7.46%) Google
11 5 (7.46%) Greenplum
11 5 (7.46%) Sybase
12 3 (4.48%) EMC
12 3 (4.48%) Isilon
12 3 (4.48%) SolarWinds
12 3 (4.48%) Veritas