NFS Contracts in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring NFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NFS over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 516 589
Rank change year-on-year +45 +73 +123
Contract jobs citing NFS 27 36 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.097% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.83% 0.85% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 30
10th Percentile £325 £261 £373
25th Percentile £600 £281 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £325 £579
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -43.87% +2.93%
75th Percentile - £388 £587
90th Percentile £670 £432 £646
UK median daily rate £638 £350 £579
% change year-on-year +82.14% -39.55% +2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
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 3,271 4,227 6,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.32% 11.36% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,154 2,931 4,404
10th Percentile £222 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 194 219
10th Percentile £15.06 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.74 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.39 £22.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% -55.70% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.88 £58.64 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.23 £70.00 £76.80
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £54.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% -55.93% +170.00%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in England

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in England.

Daily rate trend for NFS in England

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in England

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in England.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in England

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 6 July 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 +59 20 £650 - 11
London +22 4 £650 +116.67% 31
South West +37 1 £475 - 6
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
3 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) Fibre Channel
1 13 (48.15%) iSCSI
2 9 (33.33%) DNS
3 7 (25.93%) DHCP
4 5 (18.52%) FTP
5 4 (14.81%) SMTP
5 4 (14.81%) Telnet
6 3 (11.11%) Kerberos
6 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
1 2 (7.41%) Subversion
1 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (11.11%) Banking
1 3 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Architect
1 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure Architect
2 12 (44.44%) VMware Architect
3 9 (33.33%) Administrator
4 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Server Administrator
6 2 (7.41%) Database Specialist
6 2 (7.41%) DBA
6 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Data Administrator
7 1 (3.70%) Informatica Administrator
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) LDAP
2 2 (7.41%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (66.67%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Windows Server
3 16 (59.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (25.93%) Linux
4 7 (25.93%) Unix
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Edge Virtualization
1 10 (37.04%) Performance Analysis
2 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 5 (18.52%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (18.52%) High Availability
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (14.81%) Workflow
5 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 3 (11.11%) Server Management
5 3 (11.11%) Workflow Management
6 2 (7.41%) API Integration
6 2 (7.41%) Operational Stability
6 2 (7.41%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (7.41%) Runbook
6 2 (7.41%) Security Hardening
6 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) AWK
4 2 (7.41%) Perl
4 2 (7.41%) sed
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) MCSE
2 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 11 (40.74%) VCP5
4 11 (40.74%) VCP6
4 11 (40.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) CISSP
6 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.70%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (3.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) VMware ESXi
1 15 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (48.15%) vSphere
3 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (11.11%) Samba
5 2 (7.41%) GPFS
5 2 (7.41%) Veritas File System
5 2 (7.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Docker
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (11.11%) WSUS
4 2 (7.41%) Control-M
4 2 (7.41%) Netcool
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (7.41%) QRadar
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (7.41%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.70%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.70%) Nagios
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) SELinux
5 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.70%) yum
5 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Splunk
1 15 (55.56%) VMware
2 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (48.15%) NetApp
2 13 (48.15%) Veeam
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 5 (18.52%) Red Hat
4 3 (11.11%) IBM
5 2 (7.41%) BMC
5 2 (7.41%) CyberArk
5 2 (7.41%) Qualys
5 2 (7.41%) SaltStack
6 1 (3.70%) Informatica