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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 472 497
Rank change year-on-year -111 +25 +45
Contract jobs citing NFS 50 29 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.094%
As % of the System Software category 1.08% 0.89% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 17
10th Percentile £316 - £254
25th Percentile £413 £600 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £300
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +116.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £539 - £388
90th Percentile £576 - £493
UK median daily rate £487 £650 £385
% change year-on-year -25.15% +68.83% -33.62%

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 4,623 3,274 3,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.11% 11.86% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,051 2,115 2,689
10th Percentile £218 £225 £230
25th Percentile £393 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £685 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 93 128
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.01 £14.06
25th Percentile £28.75 £23.00 £15.70
Median hourly rate £60.17 £40.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.41% +65.43% -35.52%
75th Percentile £74.26 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £89.28 £91.50 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £33.64 £24.18
% change year-on-year +63.52% +39.10% -49.45%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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
North of England -60 20 £500 - 2
London -59 17 £500 -23.08% 10
Yorkshire -32 13 £519 -
Midlands -43 10 £398 -
West Midlands -39 8 £411 -
North West - 7 £450 - 2
South West - 3 - - 1
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 (14.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.00%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) AWS
2 21 (42.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 9 (18.00%) IaaS
4 9 (18.00%) PaaS
5 5 (10.00%) SaaS
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub
7 3 (6.00%) Cohesity
7 3 (6.00%) GCP
7 3 (6.00%) Rubrik
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.00%) Datadog
8 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (36.00%) DNS
2 16 (32.00%) SAN
3 11 (22.00%) NAS
4 8 (16.00%) DHCP
4 8 (16.00%) VSAN
5 6 (12.00%) Firewall
5 6 (12.00%) Kerberos
6 4 (8.00%) VLAN
7 3 (6.00%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (6.00%) FTP
7 3 (6.00%) iSCSI
7 3 (6.00%) Network Security
7 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.00%) VPN
8 2 (4.00%) VXLAN
8 2 (4.00%) WAN
9 1 (2.00%) Ethernet
9 1 (2.00%) LAN
9 1 (2.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Db2
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 14 (28.00%) Banking
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Analyst
2 8 (16.00%) Architect
2 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Storage Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Incident Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Major Incident Manager
4 5 (10.00%) NetApp Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Storage Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Production Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Storage Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Support Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Consultant
8 1 (2.00%) Integration Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) Flash
2 6 (12.00%) LDAP
3 4 (8.00%) Middleware
4 2 (4.00%) cloud-init
4 2 (4.00%) Web Services
4 2 (4.00%) YAML
5 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.00%) Replication
2 11 (22.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (22.00%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (12.00%) Mainframe
4 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (8.00%) PKI
6 3 (6.00%) Clustering
6 3 (6.00%) FlexPod
6 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.00%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (4.00%) EMC VNX
7 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (70.00%) Linux
2 17 (34.00%) Unix
3 11 (22.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (16.00%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (14.00%) Windows
6 5 (10.00%) zOS
7 4 (8.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (6.00%) AIX
8 3 (6.00%) CoreOS
8 3 (6.00%) VMS
9 1 (2.00%) CentOS
9 1 (2.00%) Rocky
9 1 (2.00%) SUSE
9 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Migration
2 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (26.00%) Agile
3 13 (26.00%) Problem Management
3 13 (26.00%) Storage Management
4 12 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (22.00%) Capacity Planning
5 11 (22.00%) Data Protection
6 10 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (18.00%) ITIL
7 9 (18.00%) Ticket Management
8 6 (12.00%) Configuration Management
8 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (10.00%) DevOps
9 5 (10.00%) High Availability
9 5 (10.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (10.00%) JCL
4 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.00%) Ruby
6 2 (4.00%) REXX
7 1 (2.00%) Java
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) OCP
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) NCDA
4 2 (4.00%) NCIE
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.00%) MCSA
5 1 (2.00%) MCSE
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (28.00%) vSphere
3 12 (24.00%) GPFS
3 12 (24.00%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
4 7 (14.00%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (10.00%) Postfix
5 5 (10.00%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (10.00%) Varnish
6 4 (8.00%) Sendmail
7 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
7 3 (6.00%) KVM
7 3 (6.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Ceph
8 2 (4.00%) Docker
8 2 (4.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (4.00%) SRDF
9 1 (2.00%) Firmware
9 1 (2.00%) Samba
9 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Ansible
2 11 (22.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.00%) Terraform
3 9 (18.00%) vRealize
4 8 (16.00%) SnapMirror
4 8 (16.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (14.00%) VxRail
6 5 (10.00%) HAProxy
7 4 (8.00%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
7 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (6.00%) Grafana
8 3 (6.00%) PowerBroker
8 3 (6.00%) SELinux
8 3 (6.00%) Tivoli
8 3 (6.00%) vCenter Server
9 2 (4.00%) Argo
9 2 (4.00%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (4.00%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) VMware
2 17 (34.00%) IBM
3 16 (32.00%) Oracle
4 13 (26.00%) Cisco
5 12 (24.00%) ServiceNow
6 11 (22.00%) Red Hat
7 10 (20.00%) Dell
8 9 (18.00%) Brocade
8 9 (18.00%) NetApp
9 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
10 5 (10.00%) Broadcom
10 5 (10.00%) Greenplum
10 5 (10.00%) Pure Storage
10 5 (10.00%) Sybase
11 3 (6.00%) EMC
11 3 (6.00%) Google
11 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
11 3 (6.00%) Veritas
12 2 (4.00%) 3PAR
12 2 (4.00%) Veeam