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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 479 521
Rank change year-on-year -60 +42 +77
Contract jobs citing NFS 72 27 36
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.10% 0.097%
As % of the System Software category 1.61% 0.83% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 21 18
10th Percentile £326 £325 £261
25th Percentile £413 £600 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £325
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +100.00% -43.87%
75th Percentile £539 - £388
90th Percentile £588 £670 £432
UK median daily rate £500 £638 £350
% change year-on-year -21.57% +82.14% -39.55%
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 4,466 3,269 4,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 12.30% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,988 2,152 2,928
10th Percentile £210 £221 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 78 194
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.06 £14.06
25th Percentile £23.68 £22.50 £14.74
Median hourly rate £54.00 £31.39 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +72.06% +41.69% -55.70%
75th Percentile £73.94 £70.88 £58.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +82.14% +17.65% -55.39%

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 7 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 7 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 -57 27 £500 -23.08% 4
North of England - 27 £500 -
Yorkshire - 20 £500 -
Midlands - 14 £400 -
West Midlands - 12 £400 -
North West - 7 £450 -
South West -31 3 - - 2
South East -84 1 - - 3
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 (9.72%) Apache
2 2 (2.78%) CloudStack
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.28%) AWS
2 23 (31.94%) Azure
3 15 (20.83%) OpenShift
4 8 (11.11%) IaaS
4 8 (11.11%) PaaS
5 5 (6.94%) GCP
6 4 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.56%) GitHub
6 4 (5.56%) SaaS
7 3 (4.17%) Cohesity
7 3 (4.17%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.78%) Datadog
8 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (40.28%) SAN
2 26 (36.11%) NAS
3 18 (25.00%) DNS
4 9 (12.50%) VSAN
5 8 (11.11%) DHCP
6 6 (8.33%) Kerberos
7 5 (6.94%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (6.94%) Firewall
7 5 (6.94%) iSCSI
8 4 (5.56%) FTP
8 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
8 4 (5.56%) VLAN
9 3 (4.17%) Network Security
10 2 (2.78%) VPN
10 2 (2.78%) VXLAN
10 2 (2.78%) WAN
11 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
11 1 (1.39%) LAN
11 1 (1.39%) SMTP
11 1 (1.39%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Db2
2 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.39%) MySQL
2 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.94%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 16 (22.22%) Banking
2 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Analyst
2 12 (16.67%) Storage Analyst
3 11 (15.28%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Architect
4 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) NetApp Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Storage Manager
6 5 (6.94%) Subject Matter Expert
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Incident Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Major Incident Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Senior
8 3 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Consultant
8 3 (4.17%) Storage Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Production Manager
9 2 (2.78%) Storage Consultant
9 2 (2.78%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) Flash
2 6 (8.33%) LDAP
3 3 (4.17%) Middleware
4 2 (2.78%) cloud-init
4 2 (2.78%) Web Services
4 2 (2.78%) YAML
5 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 32 (44.44%) Replication
2 15 (20.83%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (15.28%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (13.89%) Data Centre
5 6 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (6.94%) FlexPod
6 5 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (6.94%) Mainframe
6 5 (6.94%) Public Cloud
7 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (4.17%) Clustering
8 3 (4.17%) PKI
9 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.78%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (2.78%) EMC VNX
9 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.78%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 42 (58.33%) Linux
2 17 (23.61%) Unix
3 13 (18.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (13.89%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (9.72%) Windows
6 5 (6.94%) CoreOS
6 5 (6.94%) VMS
6 5 (6.94%) zOS
7 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
8 3 (4.17%) AIX
9 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
10 1 (1.39%) CentOS
10 1 (1.39%) Rocky
10 1 (1.39%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) Migration
2 16 (22.22%) Agile
2 16 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (20.83%) Storage Management
4 13 (18.06%) Capacity Planning
4 13 (18.06%) Data Protection
4 13 (18.06%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 12 (16.67%) Ticket Management
6 10 (13.89%) Data Migration
7 9 (12.50%) ITIL
7 9 (12.50%) Operational Stability
7 9 (12.50%) Runbook
8 8 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 7 (9.72%) High Availability
9 7 (9.72%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.72%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.44%) Python
2 10 (13.89%) Bash
3 5 (6.94%) JCL
4 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.17%) Ruby
6 2 (2.78%) REXX
7 1 (1.39%) Java
7 1 (1.39%) Korn
7 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) OCP
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.78%) NCDA
6 2 (2.78%) NCIE
6 2 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.39%) MCSA
7 1 (1.39%) MCSE
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) COBIT
System Software
1 35 (48.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (26.39%) vSphere
3 16 (22.22%) GPFS
4 15 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (9.72%) Active Directory
7 5 (6.94%) Postfix
7 5 (6.94%) Time Sharing Option
7 5 (6.94%) Varnish
8 4 (5.56%) Sendmail
9 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
9 3 (4.17%) KVM
9 3 (4.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (2.78%) Ceph
10 2 (2.78%) Docker
10 2 (2.78%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.78%) SRDF
11 1 (1.39%) Firmware
11 1 (1.39%) Samba
11 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (25.00%) Ansible
2 13 (18.06%) Kubernetes
3 12 (16.67%) vRealize
4 11 (15.28%) Terraform
5 10 (13.89%) EMC VPLEX
5 10 (13.89%) SnapMirror
6 8 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 8 (11.11%) vMotion
6 8 (11.11%) VxRail
7 5 (6.94%) HAProxy
8 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
8 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
9 3 (4.17%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (4.17%) Grafana
9 3 (4.17%) PowerBroker
9 3 (4.17%) SELinux
9 3 (4.17%) Tivoli
9 3 (4.17%) vCenter Server
10 2 (2.78%) Nagios
10 2 (2.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 37 (51.39%) VMware
2 21 (29.17%) IBM
3 20 (27.78%) Oracle
4 17 (23.61%) Pure Storage
5 16 (22.22%) Cisco
5 16 (22.22%) ServiceNow
6 14 (19.44%) NetApp
7 13 (18.06%) Red Hat
8 10 (13.89%) Dell
9 9 (12.50%) Brocade
10 8 (11.11%) Commvault
10 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
11 5 (6.94%) Broadcom
11 5 (6.94%) Google
12 4 (5.56%) Greenplum
12 4 (5.56%) Sybase
13 3 (4.17%) EMC
13 3 (4.17%) Isilon
13 3 (4.17%) SolarWinds
13 3 (4.17%) Veritas