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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 450 514
Rank change year-on-year -53 +64 +120
Contract jobs citing NFS 57 38 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.39% 1.18% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 17 21
10th Percentile £322 £371 £403
25th Percentile £402 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £501 £433
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +15.72% -21.26%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £594
90th Percentile £650 £625 £630
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £581
% change year-on-year -1.35% -13.94% +7.64%
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 4,093 3,212 4,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.26% 12.26% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 2,091 3,135
10th Percentile £201 £200 £188
25th Percentile £400 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £600
90th Percentile £695 £734 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £488
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.64% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 79 230
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.13 £21.02 £17.72
Median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -27.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £65.74
90th Percentile £84.50 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +44.62% -33.71% +13.64%

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 8 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 8 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
Midlands - 19 £400 - 1
West Midlands - 19 £400 - 1
North of England -52 13 £487 - 4
Yorkshire - 13 £487 - 4
London -32 12 £550 -6.02% 7
South East -36 10 £650 +30.00% 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 (1.75%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 23 (40.35%) AWS
2 11 (19.30%) OpenShift
3 8 (14.04%) Azure
4 3 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.51%) GCP
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub
5 2 (3.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.84%) NAS
2 20 (35.09%) SAN
3 14 (24.56%) iSCSI
4 10 (17.54%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (10.53%) VSAN
6 4 (7.02%) DNS
6 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.26%) DHCP
8 2 (3.51%) FTP
8 2 (3.51%) Kerberos
8 2 (3.51%) SMTP
8 2 (3.51%) Telnet
9 1 (1.75%) Firewall
9 1 (1.75%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.75%) LAN
9 1 (1.75%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.75%) SSH
9 1 (1.75%) VLAN
9 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
1 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.75%) MySQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) Subversion
1 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
1 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.02%) Banking
2 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Analyst
2 16 (28.07%) Storage Analyst
3 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Subject Matter Expert
6 4 (7.02%) Architect
7 3 (5.26%) DBA
7 3 (5.26%) NetApp Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (5.26%) VMware Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Administrator
8 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (3.51%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Wintel Analyst
9 1 (1.75%) Consultant
9 1 (1.75%) Lead
9 1 (1.75%) Senior
9 1 (1.75%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) Flash
2 2 (3.51%) LDAP
2 2 (3.51%) REST
3 1 (1.75%) LAMP
3 1 (1.75%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (1.75%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 39 (68.42%) Replication
2 19 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (17.54%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.51%) Clustering
4 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.51%) FlexPod
4 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (45.61%) Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Windows
3 5 (8.77%) Solaris
4 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Unix
4 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.26%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (5.26%) VMS
6 2 (3.51%) CoreOS
6 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Migration
2 16 (28.07%) Agile
3 14 (24.56%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (22.81%) Ticket Management
5 12 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (17.54%) Data Migration
6 10 (17.54%) Data Protection
6 10 (17.54%) High Availability
7 9 (15.79%) Containerisation
8 8 (14.04%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.28%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (10.53%) DevOps
11 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (8.77%) Runbook
11 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (7.02%) Operational Stability
13 3 (5.26%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.02%) Python
3 3 (5.26%) Bash
3 3 (5.26%) Perl
4 2 (3.51%) SQL
5 1 (1.75%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) MCSE
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.51%) OCP
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) GDPR
1 2 (3.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.75%) COBIT
System Software
1 34 (59.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (38.60%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (35.09%) vSphere
4 19 (33.33%) GPFS
5 4 (7.02%) VMware NSX
6 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
7 2 (3.51%) Veritas File System
7 2 (3.51%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.75%) Ceph
8 1 (1.75%) iptables
8 1 (1.75%) KVM
8 1 (1.75%) Lustre
8 1 (1.75%) Samba
8 1 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) vRealize
2 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.28%) EMC VPLEX
3 7 (12.28%) vMotion
4 6 (10.53%) Ansible
5 3 (5.26%) SnapMirror
5 3 (5.26%) Terraform
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.51%) QRadar
6 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.51%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (3.51%) VxRail
7 1 (1.75%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.75%) SELinux
7 1 (1.75%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 38 (66.67%) VMware
2 24 (42.11%) IBM
3 22 (38.60%) Oracle
4 19 (33.33%) ServiceNow
5 16 (28.07%) Cisco
6 13 (22.81%) NetApp
7 12 (21.05%) Pure Storage
8 7 (12.28%) Commvault
9 5 (8.77%) EMC
10 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
10 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
10 4 (7.02%) Splunk
11 3 (5.26%) Isilon
12 2 (3.51%) Citrix
12 2 (3.51%) CyberArk
12 2 (3.51%) Google
12 2 (3.51%) Qualys
12 2 (3.51%) SaltStack
12 2 (3.51%) Veeam