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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 456 508
Rank change year-on-year -64 +52 +76
Contract jobs citing NFS 80 23 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.096% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 1.88% 0.75% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 14 25
10th Percentile £370 £325 £281
25th Percentile £413 £383 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £650 £385
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +68.83% -33.96%
75th Percentile £535 - £430
90th Percentile £591 - £463
UK median daily rate £487 £525 £395
% change year-on-year -7.24% +32.91% -32.25%
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 4,251 3,065 4,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.20% 12.73% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,856 2,085 2,873
10th Percentile £213 £214 £204
25th Percentile £400 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £608
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 70 206
10th Percentile £17.18 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.44 £17.53 £14.48
Median hourly rate £53.00 £28.21 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +87.91% +26.91% -57.67%
75th Percentile £72.77 £62.44 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.21 £24.18
% change year-on-year +86.14% +16.65% -56.04%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 - 33 £487 -
Yorkshire - 26 £500 -
London -50 23 £513 -23.51% 6
Midlands - 18 £402 -
West Midlands - 17 £402 -
North West - 7 £450 -
South West -27 3 - - 2
South East -72 3 £675 +3.85%
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 (8.75%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) CloudStack
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) AWS
2 21 (26.25%) OpenShift
3 20 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (7.50%) PaaS
5 5 (6.25%) GCP
5 5 (6.25%) IaaS
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.00%) GitHub
7 3 (3.75%) Cohesity
7 3 (3.75%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.50%) Datadog
8 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (41.25%) SAN
2 30 (37.50%) NAS
3 14 (17.50%) DNS
4 13 (16.25%) iSCSI
5 11 (13.75%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (12.50%) VSAN
7 4 (5.00%) DHCP
7 4 (5.00%) FTP
7 4 (5.00%) VLAN
8 3 (3.75%) Kerberos
8 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.50%) Firewall
9 2 (2.50%) Network Security
9 2 (2.50%) VPN
9 2 (2.50%) VXLAN
10 1 (1.25%) SMTP
10 1 (1.25%) SSH
10 1 (1.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) DB2
1 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.25%) MySQL
1 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.00%) Git
General
1 16 (20.00%) Banking
2 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Finance
4 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Analyst
2 17 (21.25%) Storage Analyst
3 13 (16.25%) Storage Engineer
4 11 (13.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Architect
6 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.00%) NetApp Engineer
7 7 (8.75%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (7.50%) Subject Matter Expert
9 5 (6.25%) Storage Manager
10 4 (5.00%) Azure Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Senior
11 3 (3.75%) Consultant
11 3 (3.75%) Storage Architect
12 2 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 2 (2.50%) Storage Consultant
13 1 (1.25%) Infrastructure Support
13 1 (1.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
13 1 (1.25%) VMware Architect
13 1 (1.25%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) Flash
2 3 (3.75%) LDAP
3 2 (2.50%) cloud-init
3 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 2 (2.50%) YAML
4 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (55.00%) Replication
2 20 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (21.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (8.75%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (6.25%) FlexPod
5 5 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Clustering
7 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.50%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (2.50%) EMC VNX
7 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (57.50%) Linux
2 16 (20.00%) Unix
3 13 (16.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (13.75%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (7.50%) VMS
6 5 (6.25%) CoreOS
6 5 (6.25%) zOS
7 4 (5.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.75%) AIX
8 3 (3.75%) Windows
9 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
10 1 (1.25%) CentOS
10 1 (1.25%) Rocky
10 1 (1.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (46.25%) Migration
2 22 (27.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (26.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 20 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 19 (23.75%) Agile
5 19 (23.75%) Capacity Planning
6 18 (22.50%) Data Protection
7 16 (20.00%) Storage Management
8 15 (18.75%) Ticket Management
9 14 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 12 (15.00%) High Availability
11 11 (13.75%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (12.50%) Data Migration
12 10 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 9 (11.25%) Problem Management
13 9 (11.25%) Runbook
14 7 (8.75%) Task Automation
15 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 6 (7.50%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 9 (11.25%) Bash
3 5 (6.25%) JCL
4 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.75%) Ruby
6 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.50%) REXX
7 1 (1.25%) Korn
7 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) OCP
3 5 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) NCDA
6 2 (2.50%) NCIE
6 2 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 37 (46.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (27.50%) vSphere
3 21 (26.25%) GPFS
4 18 (22.50%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (11.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (6.25%) Postfix
6 5 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
6 5 (6.25%) Varnish
7 4 (5.00%) Sendmail
8 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
8 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
8 3 (3.75%) KVM
8 3 (3.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Ceph
9 2 (2.50%) Docker
9 2 (2.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (2.50%) SRDF
10 1 (1.25%) Firmware
10 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.25%) Ansible
3 16 (20.00%) vRealize
4 11 (13.75%) SnapMirror
5 10 (12.50%) EMC VPLEX
5 10 (12.50%) Terraform
6 8 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 8 (10.00%) vMotion
6 8 (10.00%) VxRail
7 5 (6.25%) HAProxy
8 4 (5.00%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.75%) Grafana
9 3 (3.75%) PowerBroker
9 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
9 3 (3.75%) SELinux
9 3 (3.75%) SnapVault
9 3 (3.75%) Tivoli
10 2 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (2.50%) NetBackup
10 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (50.00%) VMware
2 31 (38.75%) IBM
3 25 (31.25%) Oracle
4 21 (26.25%) ServiceNow
5 19 (23.75%) Cisco
5 19 (23.75%) NetApp
6 18 (22.50%) Pure Storage
7 13 (16.25%) Red Hat
8 9 (11.25%) Brocade
8 9 (11.25%) Dell
9 8 (10.00%) Commvault
10 7 (8.75%) EMC
10 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
11 5 (6.25%) Broadcom
11 5 (6.25%) Google
12 3 (3.75%) Isilon
12 3 (3.75%) Veritas
13 2 (2.50%) 3PAR
13 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
13 2 (2.50%) Veeam