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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 475 496
Rank change year-on-year -28 +21 +175
Contract jobs citing NFS 46 36 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 1.17% 1.03% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 34
10th Percentile £314 £386 £401
25th Percentile £469 £475 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £501 £523
Median % change year-on-year +17.93% -4.21% -0.48%
75th Percentile £650 £547 £600
90th Percentile - £603 £733
UK median daily rate £590 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +18.05% -11.11% +7.14%

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 3,925 3,505 4,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.50% 12.01% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,618 2,270 3,287
10th Percentile £213 £205 £195
25th Percentile £400 £369 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 78 217
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.63
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.46 £18.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £31.75 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -21.26% +61.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.88 £67.25
90th Percentile £90.15 £75.00 £76.92
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.71 £45.88
% change year-on-year +48.70% -37.43% +83.52%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 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 -12 18 £650 +23.81% 2
West Midlands - 12 £309 - 1
Midlands - 12 £309 - 1
North of England -41 7 £487 - 2
Yorkshire - 7 £487 - 1
London -14 6 £588 +17.44%
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 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) CICS
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
1 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) AWS
2 8 (17.39%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.87%) GitHub
5 3 (6.52%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (43.48%) iSCSI
2 17 (36.96%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (17.39%) NAS
3 8 (17.39%) SAN
4 7 (15.22%) DNS
5 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
5 5 (10.87%) VSAN
6 4 (8.70%) DHCP
7 2 (4.35%) Firewall
7 2 (4.35%) LAN
7 2 (4.35%) WAN
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.17%) FCoE
8 1 (2.17%) FTP
8 1 (2.17%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.17%) Multicast
8 1 (2.17%) SMTP
8 1 (2.17%) SSH
8 1 (2.17%) Telnet
8 1 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
1 4 (8.70%) Subversion
1 4 (8.70%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (17.39%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Architect
2 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Architect
3 9 (19.57%) Analyst
3 9 (19.57%) VMware Architect
4 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (17.39%) Storage Analyst
5 7 (15.22%) Administrator
6 6 (13.04%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) DBA
7 4 (8.70%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
9 2 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Server Administrator
9 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Database Specialist
10 1 (2.17%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.17%) NetApp Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.17%) Subject Matter Expert
10 1 (2.17%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) Flash
2 4 (8.70%) REST
3 2 (4.35%) LDAP
4 1 (2.17%) LAMP
4 1 (2.17%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.17%) libvirt
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (56.52%) Replication
2 12 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (13.04%) Clustering
3 6 (13.04%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.17%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (43.48%) Linux
2 15 (32.61%) Windows
3 12 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 12 (26.09%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (17.39%) Solaris
5 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.52%) Unix
7 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (2.17%) MVS
8 1 (2.17%) VMS
8 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Agile
1 12 (26.09%) High Availability
1 12 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
2 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (21.74%) Migration
4 8 (17.39%) Data Protection
4 8 (17.39%) DevOps
4 8 (17.39%) Ticket Management
5 6 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 6 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.70%) Data Security
6 4 (8.70%) Edge Virtualization
6 4 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 4 (8.70%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.04%) Bash
4 5 (10.87%) Perl
4 5 (10.87%) Python
5 1 (2.17%) AWK
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) sed
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) DV Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) MCSE
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.87%) VCP5
3 5 (10.87%) VCP6
3 5 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) GDPR
1 4 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (63.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (58.70%) VMware ESXi
3 22 (47.83%) vSphere
4 13 (28.26%) GPFS
5 4 (8.70%) Veritas File System
5 4 (8.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
6 3 (6.52%) VMware NSX
7 2 (4.35%) KVM
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.17%) Ceph
8 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (2.17%) iptables
8 1 (2.17%) Lustre
8 1 (2.17%) Samba
8 1 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (2.17%) SRDF
8 1 (2.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (2.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) vRealize
2 8 (17.39%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
4 4 (8.70%) QRadar
4 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (8.70%) Terraform
5 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.35%) WSUS
6 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (2.17%) Puppet
6 1 (2.17%) SELinux
6 1 (2.17%) SnapMirror
6 1 (2.17%) SnapVault
6 1 (2.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (69.57%) VMware
2 18 (39.13%) IBM
3 17 (36.96%) NetApp
3 17 (36.96%) Oracle
4 14 (30.43%) Splunk
5 13 (28.26%) Cisco
6 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
6 12 (26.09%) ServiceNow
7 10 (21.74%) Veeam
8 6 (13.04%) EMC
9 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
10 4 (8.70%) CyberArk
10 4 (8.70%) Qualys
10 4 (8.70%) SaltStack
11 2 (4.35%) Pure Storage
12 1 (2.17%) Citrix
12 1 (2.17%) F5
12 1 (2.17%) Google