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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 449 488
Rank change year-on-year -53 +39 +126
Contract jobs citing NFS 72 27 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.68% 0.86% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 16 25
10th Percentile £330 £325 £281
25th Percentile £402 £436 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £538 £405
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +32.72% -30.53%
75th Percentile £538 £631 £430
90th Percentile £599 £650 £549
UK median daily rate £487 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -7.24% +27.27% -29.25%
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 4,295 3,143 4,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.77% 12.78% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,920 2,179 2,817
10th Percentile £213 £213 £190
25th Percentile £400 £400 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 77 210
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.85 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £56.25 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.89% +30.23% -56.57%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £56.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.95 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £27.97 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.70% +24.31% -56.84%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 - 27 £500 - 3
Yorkshire - 23 £500 - 2
London -49 21 £525 -21.64% 1
Midlands - 18 £401 - 1
West Midlands - 18 £401 - 1
South East -76 6 £675 +25.58% 1
North West - 4 £449 - 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 5 (6.94%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (38.89%) AWS
2 19 (26.39%) OpenShift
3 18 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (8.33%) PaaS
5 5 (6.94%) GCP
6 4 (5.56%) IaaS
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (4.17%) Cohesity
7 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.17%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.39%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.39%) Datadog
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (40.28%) SAN
2 28 (38.89%) NAS
3 15 (20.83%) iSCSI
4 11 (15.28%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (12.50%) DNS
6 8 (11.11%) VSAN
7 3 (4.17%) DHCP
7 3 (4.17%) FTP
7 3 (4.17%) Kerberos
7 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.78%) Firewall
8 2 (2.78%) Network Security
8 2 (2.78%) SMTP
8 2 (2.78%) Telnet
8 2 (2.78%) VPN
9 1 (1.39%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.39%) LAN
9 1 (1.39%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.39%) SSH
9 1 (1.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) MySQL
1 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.39%) DB2
2 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) Git
General
1 13 (18.06%) Banking
2 11 (15.28%) Finance
2 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) Analyst
2 18 (25.00%) Storage Analyst
3 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 9 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Architect
5 8 (11.11%) NetApp Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Subject Matter Expert
7 4 (5.56%) Senior
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Storage Manager
9 2 (2.78%) Consultant
9 2 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Storage Architect
9 2 (2.78%) VMware Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Wintel Analyst
10 1 (1.39%) Integration Engineer
10 1 (1.39%) Storage Consultant
10 1 (1.39%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.78%) Flash
2 3 (4.17%) LDAP
3 1 (1.39%) LAMP
3 1 (1.39%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (1.39%) libvirt
3 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (58.33%) Replication
2 20 (27.78%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (6.94%) FlexPod
5 5 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
7 3 (4.17%) Clustering
8 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.39%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (1.39%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 37 (51.39%) Linux
2 12 (16.67%) Unix
3 10 (13.89%) Data ONTAP
4 8 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (8.33%) VMS
6 5 (6.94%) CoreOS
6 5 (6.94%) Windows
7 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
7 3 (4.17%) zOS
8 1 (1.39%) AIX
8 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) Migration
2 20 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
3 19 (26.39%) Data Protection
4 18 (25.00%) Agile
4 18 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (23.61%) Ticket Management
6 16 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
7 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (18.06%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.28%) High Availability
9 11 (15.28%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (12.50%) Data Migration
11 9 (12.50%) Storage Management
12 8 (11.11%) Runbook
12 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Automation
14 5 (6.94%) Operational Stability
14 5 (6.94%) Task Automation
14 5 (6.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.94%) Bash
1 5 (6.94%) Python
2 3 (4.17%) JCL
2 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.78%) Ruby
4 1 (1.39%) Korn
4 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.94%) OCP
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) NCDA
5 1 (1.39%) NCIE
5 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) COBIT
System Software
1 39 (54.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (29.17%) vSphere
3 20 (27.78%) GPFS
4 18 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.56%) Postfix
6 4 (5.56%) Varnish
7 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
7 3 (4.17%) Sendmail
7 3 (4.17%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.39%) Ceph
9 1 (1.39%) Docker
9 1 (1.39%) Firmware
9 1 (1.39%) iptables
9 1 (1.39%) KVM
9 1 (1.39%) Lustre
9 1 (1.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (23.61%) vRealize
2 16 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.28%) Ansible
4 10 (13.89%) SnapMirror
5 9 (12.50%) EMC VPLEX
6 8 (11.11%) vMotion
7 7 (9.72%) Terraform
8 6 (8.33%) VxRail
9 5 (6.94%) HAProxy
10 4 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (2.78%) SELinux
11 2 (2.78%) SnapVault
11 2 (2.78%) vCenter Server
11 2 (2.78%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 1 (1.39%) Argo
12 1 (1.39%) Grafana
12 1 (1.39%) Podman
12 1 (1.39%) PowerBroker
12 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (56.94%) VMware
2 28 (38.89%) IBM
3 22 (30.56%) Oracle
4 20 (27.78%) ServiceNow
5 18 (25.00%) Cisco
5 18 (25.00%) NetApp
6 17 (23.61%) Pure Storage
7 8 (11.11%) Commvault
7 8 (11.11%) Red Hat
8 6 (8.33%) Brocade
8 6 (8.33%) Dell
8 6 (8.33%) EMC
9 5 (6.94%) Google
9 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
10 3 (4.17%) Broadcom
10 3 (4.17%) Isilon
11 2 (2.78%) Citrix
12 1 (1.39%) Greenplum
12 1 (1.39%) Sybase
12 1 (1.39%) Veeam