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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 452 515
Rank change year-on-year -37 +63 +142
Contract jobs citing NFS 54 37 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.32% 1.14% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 15 24
10th Percentile £318 £388 £401
25th Percentile £402 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £476
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +10.24% -13.27%
75th Percentile £581 £581 £595
90th Percentile £640 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £487 £501 £575
% change year-on-year -2.70% -12.96% +6.48%
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 4,090 3,241 4,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.43% 12.23% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 2,094 3,139
10th Percentile £205 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -8.02%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £729 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £493
% change year-on-year -2.49% +4.11% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 80 221
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.74 £21.03 £17.75
Median hourly rate £37.97 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.93% -27.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.23 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +36.39% -33.41% +25.66%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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
West Midlands - 19 £398 - 1
Midlands - 19 £398 - 1
London -34 11 £550 -6.02% 7
North of England -48 11 £481 - 5
Yorkshire - 11 £481 - 4
South East -25 10 £650 +23.81% 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 1 (1.85%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
4 3 (5.56%) GitHub
4 3 (5.56%) SaaS
5 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) NAS
2 16 (29.63%) SAN
3 14 (25.93%) iSCSI
4 10 (18.52%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (11.11%) VSAN
6 5 (9.26%) DNS
6 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.56%) DHCP
8 2 (3.70%) FTP
8 2 (3.70%) Kerberos
8 2 (3.70%) SMTP
8 2 (3.70%) Telnet
9 1 (1.85%) Firewall
9 1 (1.85%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.85%) LAN
9 1 (1.85%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.85%) SSH
9 1 (1.85%) VLAN
9 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.85%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
1 3 (5.56%) Subversion
1 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (16.67%) Finance
1 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Analyst
2 15 (27.78%) Storage Analyst
3 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (12.96%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Subject Matter Expert
6 3 (5.56%) Administrator
6 3 (5.56%) DBA
6 3 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (5.56%) VMware Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Wintel Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Lead
8 1 (1.85%) NetApp Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.19%) Flash
2 3 (5.56%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) LDAP
4 1 (1.85%) LAMP
4 1 (1.85%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (1.85%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 39 (72.22%) Replication
2 19 (35.19%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (18.52%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (5.56%) Clustering
5 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (46.30%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Solaris
2 6 (11.11%) Windows
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.56%) Unix
5 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.85%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Migration
2 17 (31.48%) Agile
3 14 (25.93%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (24.07%) Ticket Management
5 11 (20.37%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (20.37%) High Availability
6 9 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 8 (14.81%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.81%) Data Protection
7 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (12.96%) DevOps
8 7 (12.96%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (7.41%) Runbook
11 3 (5.56%) API Integration
11 3 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
1 5 (9.26%) Python
2 4 (7.41%) Bash
2 4 (7.41%) Perl
3 2 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) MCSE
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) GDPR
1 3 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.85%) COBIT
System Software
1 32 (59.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
3 19 (35.19%) GPFS
3 19 (35.19%) vSphere
4 4 (7.41%) VMware NSX
5 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
5 3 (5.56%) Veritas File System
5 3 (5.56%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.85%) Ceph
7 1 (1.85%) iptables
7 1 (1.85%) KVM
7 1 (1.85%) Lustre
7 1 (1.85%) Samba
7 1 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (35.19%) vRealize
2 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.26%) Ansible
3 5 (9.26%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (9.26%) vMotion
4 3 (5.56%) QRadar
4 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (3.70%) VxRail
6 1 (1.85%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.85%) SELinux
6 1 (1.85%) SnapMirror
6 1 (1.85%) SnapVault
6 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (66.67%) VMware
2 24 (44.44%) IBM
3 22 (40.74%) Oracle
4 19 (35.19%) ServiceNow
5 17 (31.48%) Cisco
6 11 (20.37%) NetApp
7 10 (18.52%) Pure Storage
8 5 (9.26%) Commvault
8 5 (9.26%) EMC
8 5 (9.26%) Splunk
9 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
10 3 (5.56%) CyberArk
10 3 (5.56%) Isilon
10 3 (5.56%) Qualys
10 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
10 3 (5.56%) SaltStack
11 2 (3.70%) Citrix
11 2 (3.70%) Veeam