NFS Contracts in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for NFS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NFS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 607 678
Rank change year-on-year +116 +71 -89
Contract jobs citing NFS 47 48 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.095% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.17% 0.73% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 93
10th Percentile £281 £382 £375
25th Percentile £300 £549 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £583 £570
Median % change year-on-year -30.53% +2.28% +26.67%
75th Percentile £430 £585 £713
90th Percentile £549 £625 £790
UK median daily rate £413 £583 £570
% change year-on-year -29.25% +2.28% +30.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
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 is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,023 6,604 9,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 13.08% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 4,783 7,174
10th Percentile £190 £204 £193
25th Percentile £325 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £708
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 244 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.67 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £57.80 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.00 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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
London +113 23 £300 -48.72% 4
North of England +49 18 £423 +0.60% 1
Yorkshire +40 18 £423 +0.60%
East of England +8 2 £350 - 1
South East +2 2 - - 2
South West - 1 £688 - 2
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 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) GitHub
1 17 (36.17%) PaaS
2 6 (12.77%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (4.26%) Cohesity
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) FTP
2 8 (17.02%) DNS
3 5 (10.64%) Internet
3 5 (10.64%) SSH
3 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.51%) HTTP
4 4 (8.51%) iSCSI
4 4 (8.51%) VPN
5 3 (6.38%) Firewall
6 2 (4.26%) BGP
6 2 (4.26%) DHCP
6 2 (4.26%) InfiniBand
7 1 (2.13%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.13%) LAN
7 1 (2.13%) Network Security
7 1 (2.13%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (2.13%) VLAN
7 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.13%) MySQL
2 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) GitLab
3 2 (4.26%) GoCD
4 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.02%) Electronics
3 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Manufacturing
3 8 (17.02%) Marketing
3 8 (17.02%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Storage Manager
2 13 (27.66%) Implementation Specialist
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Lead
5 2 (4.26%) Administrator
5 2 (4.26%) IBM Storage Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Linux Support
5 2 (4.26%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Storage Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (2.13%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) LDAP
2 16 (34.04%) YAML
3 4 (8.51%) .NET
3 4 (8.51%) JSON
4 2 (4.26%) CSS
4 2 (4.26%) SAML
5 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.13%) LAMP
5 1 (2.13%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (2.13%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Data Centre
2 13 (27.66%) Replication
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (85.11%) Linux
2 19 (40.43%) zOS
3 18 (38.30%) Windows
4 15 (31.91%) Unix
5 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Agile
2 19 (40.43%) Storage Management
3 18 (38.30%) Problem Management
4 16 (34.04%) Project Management
5 15 (31.91%) Migration
6 14 (29.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (27.66%) Capacity Management
7 13 (27.66%) Cost Management
7 13 (27.66%) Software Testing
7 13 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (17.02%) Digital Marketing
8 8 (17.02%) Programme Management
9 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.77%) DevOps
11 5 (10.64%) Customer Experience
12 4 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (8.51%) Critical Thinking
12 4 (8.51%) Data Collection
12 4 (8.51%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Python
2 19 (40.43%) JCL
3 16 (34.04%) REXX
4 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.51%) C#
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) Korn
7 2 (4.26%) Perl
7 2 (4.26%) tcsh
8 1 (2.13%) Java
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.13%) HNC
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 19 (40.43%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (36.17%) Active Directory
3 13 (27.66%) HDFS
4 4 (8.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.26%) Ceph
5 2 (4.26%) Docker
5 2 (4.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (4.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.13%) iptables
6 1 (2.13%) KVM
6 1 (2.13%) Lustre
6 1 (2.13%) Samba
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (42.55%) Ansible
2 18 (38.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Puppet
3 2 (4.26%) systemd
3 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 2 (4.26%) vRealize
4 1 (2.13%) CFEngine
4 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.13%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.13%) Mesos
4 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) SCOM
4 1 (2.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 23 (48.94%) Dell
2 19 (40.43%) Broadcom
2 19 (40.43%) Brocade
2 19 (40.43%) CA
2 19 (40.43%) IBM
3 13 (27.66%) Isilon
4 8 (17.02%) SAP
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.51%) VMware
7 2 (4.26%) Aruba
7 2 (4.26%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (2.13%) BMC
8 1 (2.13%) Citrix
8 1 (2.13%) NVIDIA