NFS Contracts in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring NFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NFS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 495 605
Rank change year-on-year +37 +110 +71
Contract jobs citing NFS 27 47 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.095%
As % of the System Software category 0.87% 1.17% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 32
10th Percentile £325 £281 £382
25th Percentile £436 £300 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £405 £583
Median % change year-on-year +35.80% -30.53% +2.28%
75th Percentile £650 £430 £585
90th Percentile - £549 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £413 £583
% change year-on-year +27.27% -29.25% +2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
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 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in England.

Daily rate trend for NFS in England

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in England

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in England.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in England

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 1 May 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 +63 19 £550 - 5
London +20 5 £670 +123.33% 9
South West +46 1 £475 -30.91%
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 8 (29.63%) Apache
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) GitHub
2 4 (14.81%) PaaS
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (55.56%) DNS
2 12 (44.44%) FTP
3 11 (40.74%) DHCP
3 11 (40.74%) SMTP
3 11 (40.74%) Telnet
4 8 (29.63%) iSCSI
5 5 (18.52%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
6 4 (14.81%) tcpdump
7 3 (11.11%) Kerberos
8 1 (3.70%) NAS
8 1 (3.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
1 4 (14.81%) Subversion
1 4 (14.81%) TeamCity
2 2 (7.41%) Git
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Electronics
3 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.41%) Marketing
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Administrator
2 8 (29.63%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (22.22%) VMware Architect
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Informatica Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) LDAP
2 4 (14.81%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.70%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (55.56%) Linux
2 11 (40.74%) Windows
3 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
4 6 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (14.81%) Solaris
6 4 (14.81%) Unix
7 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
7 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (22.22%) High Availability
2 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (22.22%) Workflow
3 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (18.52%) Workflow Management
4 4 (14.81%) API Integration
4 4 (14.81%) Data Security
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Edge Virtualization
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (14.81%) Kernel Tuning
4 4 (14.81%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (14.81%) Security Hardening
4 4 (14.81%) Server Migrations
4 4 (14.81%) SIEM
5 3 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Bash
1 5 (18.52%) Python
2 4 (14.81%) Perl
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (51.85%) SC Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) MCSE
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (14.81%) VCP5
4 4 (14.81%) VCP6
4 4 (14.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.70%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (3.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) VMware ESXi
2 11 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (37.04%) Samba
4 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
5 5 (18.52%) vSphere
6 4 (14.81%) Veritas File System
6 4 (14.81%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.70%) Docker
7 1 (3.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Ansible
1 8 (29.63%) yum
2 4 (14.81%) QRadar
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat Satellite
2 4 (14.81%) vRealize
2 4 (14.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (7.41%) Control-M
4 2 (7.41%) Netcool
4 2 (7.41%) Tivoli
5 1 (3.70%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) Nagios
5 1 (3.70%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) SELinux
5 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.70%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (3.70%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) VMware
2 9 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 8 (29.63%) Splunk
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.81%) CyberArk
5 4 (14.81%) HP
5 4 (14.81%) NetApp
5 4 (14.81%) Qualys
5 4 (14.81%) SaltStack
5 4 (14.81%) Veeam
6 3 (11.11%) IBM
6 3 (11.11%) Oracle
7 2 (7.41%) BMC
7 2 (7.41%) SAP
8 1 (3.70%) Cisco
8 1 (3.70%) EMC
8 1 (3.70%) Informatica
8 1 (3.70%) McAfee
8 1 (3.70%) Symantec