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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 512 537
Rank change year-on-year +45 +25 +178
Contract jobs citing NFS 34 21 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.064% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.01% 0.55% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 34
10th Percentile - £213 £400
25th Percentile £600 £247 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £472 £563
Median % change year-on-year +37.71% -16.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile - £525 £629
90th Percentile - £555 £740
UK median daily rate £650 £464 £586
% change year-on-year +40.16% -20.90% +0.86%

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 3,380 3,820 5,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.17% 11.68% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,567 3,793
10th Percentile £214 £219 £200
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £638
90th Percentile £675 £694 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 100 247
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.75 £18.13
Median hourly rate £36.00 £24.35 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +47.84% -49.09% +117.41%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.75 £80.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £24.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -51.30% +127.27%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 - 21 £650 - 1
London +22 7 £650 +30.00% 1
West Midlands - 4 - - 1
Midlands - 4 - - 3
Yorkshire -11 1 - -
North of England -15 1 - - 1
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 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) CICS
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.94%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) GitHub
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (52.94%) Fibre Channel
1 18 (52.94%) iSCSI
2 8 (23.53%) DNS
3 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.76%) DHCP
5 2 (5.88%) FTP
5 2 (5.88%) VSAN
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.94%) FCoE
6 1 (2.94%) Firewall
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) Multicast
6 1 (2.94%) NAS
6 1 (2.94%) SAN
6 1 (2.94%) SMTP
6 1 (2.94%) Telnet
6 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Metadata
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
1 4 (11.76%) Subversion
1 4 (11.76%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Architect
1 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure Architect
2 15 (44.12%) VMware Architect
3 10 (29.41%) Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) DBA
5 3 (8.82%) Server Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) Database Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL Specialist
7 1 (2.94%) Data Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Informatica Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Flash
1 4 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) LDAP
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Replication
2 7 (20.59%) Clustering
3 5 (14.71%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (61.76%) Windows
2 20 (58.82%) Windows Server 2019
3 19 (55.88%) Windows Server
4 13 (38.24%) Linux
5 6 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (17.65%) Solaris
6 4 (11.76%) Unix
7 1 (2.94%) MVS
7 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Edge Virtualization
1 10 (29.41%) Performance Analysis
2 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.59%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (20.59%) High Availability
3 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
4 5 (14.71%) DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (11.76%) Agile
5 4 (11.76%) API Integration
5 4 (11.76%) Data Security
5 4 (11.76%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (11.76%) Operational Stability
5 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.76%) Security Hardening
6 3 (8.82%) Coaching
6 3 (8.82%) Prototyping
6 3 (8.82%) Server Management
7 2 (5.88%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) SQL
2 6 (17.65%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) Perl
3 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.76%) Python
4 2 (5.88%) AWK
4 2 (5.88%) sed
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (50.00%) MCSE
2 17 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (47.06%) DV Cleared
4 11 (32.35%) VCP5
4 11 (32.35%) VCP6
4 11 (32.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
1 4 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (73.53%) VMware ESXi
2 24 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (61.76%) vSphere
4 6 (17.65%) GPFS
5 4 (11.76%) Veritas File System
5 4 (11.76%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
7 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
8 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
8 1 (2.94%) KVM
8 1 (2.94%) Samba
8 1 (2.94%) SRDF
8 1 (2.94%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (2.94%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Ansible
2 4 (11.76%) QRadar
2 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) vRealize
3 3 (8.82%) WSUS
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.94%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) VMware
2 21 (61.76%) Splunk
3 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 18 (52.94%) NetApp
4 17 (50.00%) Veeam
5 8 (23.53%) Oracle
6 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
7 5 (14.71%) Cisco
7 5 (14.71%) IBM
8 4 (11.76%) CyberArk
8 4 (11.76%) Qualys
8 4 (11.76%) SaltStack
8 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.94%) EMC
9 1 (2.94%) F5
9 1 (2.94%) Google
9 1 (2.94%) Informatica
9 1 (2.94%) Pure Storage