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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 502 529
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 +169
Contract jobs citing NFS 35 21 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.066% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.99% 0.57% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 34
10th Percentile £580 - £400
25th Percentile £600 £213 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £525 £623
90th Percentile - £585 £740
UK median daily rate £650 £475 £563
% change year-on-year +36.84% -15.56% +7.14%

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 3,549 3,682 5,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.60% 11.66% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 2,385 3,684
10th Percentile £207 £220 £198
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 79 250
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.80 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.41 £21.86 £18.26
Median hourly rate £32.77 £50.00 £47.67
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +4.90% +111.84%
75th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £66.93
90th Percentile £88.93 £80.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £44.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% -12.00% +127.27%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +29 21 £650 +8.33%
London +13 6 £650 +30.00% 1
West Midlands - 4 - - 4
Midlands - 4 - - 6
North of England -26 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) CICS
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) Fibre Channel
1 17 (48.57%) iSCSI
2 8 (22.86%) DNS
3 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (11.43%) DHCP
5 3 (8.57%) VSAN
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.86%) FCoE
6 1 (2.86%) Firewall
6 1 (2.86%) FTP
6 1 (2.86%) LAN
6 1 (2.86%) Multicast
6 1 (2.86%) NAS
6 1 (2.86%) SAN
6 1 (2.86%) SMTP
6 1 (2.86%) Telnet
6 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
1 4 (11.43%) Subversion
1 4 (11.43%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (11.43%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.86%) Banking
3 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Architect
1 17 (48.57%) Infrastructure Architect
2 14 (40.00%) VMware Architect
3 9 (25.71%) Administrator
4 5 (14.29%) DBA
5 4 (11.43%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (11.43%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (8.57%) Server Administrator
7 2 (5.71%) Database Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.86%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Flash
1 4 (11.43%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Replication
2 7 (20.00%) Clustering
3 4 (11.43%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (60.00%) Windows
2 19 (54.29%) Windows Server 2019
3 18 (51.43%) Windows Server
4 13 (37.14%) Linux
5 8 (22.86%) Solaris
6 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (8.57%) Unix
8 1 (2.86%) MVS
8 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (25.71%) Edge Virtualization
2 9 (25.71%) Performance Analysis
3 7 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (20.00%) DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) High Availability
3 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (17.14%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (11.43%) Agile
5 4 (11.43%) API Integration
5 4 (11.43%) Data Security
5 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (11.43%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (11.43%) Migration
5 4 (11.43%) Operational Stability
5 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.43%) Security Hardening
6 3 (8.57%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (8.57%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (8.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (17.14%) Bash
4 4 (11.43%) Perl
4 4 (11.43%) Python
5 2 (5.71%) AWK
5 2 (5.71%) sed
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 16 (45.71%) MCSE
2 16 (45.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 10 (28.57%) VCP5
4 10 (28.57%) VCP6
4 10 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
1 4 (11.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (68.57%) VMware ESXi
1 24 (68.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (57.14%) vSphere
3 6 (17.14%) GPFS
4 4 (11.43%) Veritas File System
4 4 (11.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.86%) KVM
6 1 (2.86%) Samba
6 1 (2.86%) SRDF
6 1 (2.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.86%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) QRadar
2 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) vRealize
3 3 (8.57%) WSUS
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.86%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.86%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) VMware
2 20 (57.14%) Splunk
3 17 (48.57%) Microsoft
3 17 (48.57%) NetApp
4 16 (45.71%) Veeam
5 10 (28.57%) Oracle
6 6 (17.14%) Red Hat
7 5 (14.29%) Cisco
7 5 (14.29%) IBM
8 4 (11.43%) CyberArk
8 4 (11.43%) Qualys
8 4 (11.43%) SaltStack
8 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.86%) EMC
9 1 (2.86%) F5
9 1 (2.86%) Google
9 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage