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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 460 494
Rank change year-on-year -37 +34 +151
Contract jobs citing NFS 44 34 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.12% 1.05% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 29
10th Percentile £314 £386 £402
25th Percentile £402 £475 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £501 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -3.75% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £547 £600
90th Percentile £650 £603 £703
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -1.30% -11.11% +4.17%

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 3,943 3,242 4,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.46% 11.85% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,106 3,088
10th Percentile £213 £204 £190
25th Percentile £400 £368 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 78 201
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.59 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.91 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.71 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year +65.48% -38.12% +68.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £68.63
90th Percentile £90.60 £79.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.11 £28.41 £50.00
% change year-on-year +69.34% -43.18% +81.82%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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
Midlands - 16 £364 - 1
West Midlands - 16 £364 - 1
South East -25 13 £650 +23.81% 1
North of England -43 7 £487 -
Yorkshire - 7 £487 -
London -28 5 £525 +4.95% 3
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 (2.27%) Apache
1 1 (2.27%) CICS
1 1 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
1 1 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) AWS
2 6 (13.64%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) OpenShift
3 5 (11.36%) GitHub
4 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (38.64%) iSCSI
2 13 (29.55%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (18.18%) NAS
3 8 (18.18%) SAN
4 5 (11.36%) DNS
4 5 (11.36%) TCP/IP
4 5 (11.36%) VSAN
5 2 (4.55%) DHCP
5 2 (4.55%) Firewall
5 2 (4.55%) LAN
5 2 (4.55%) WAN
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.27%) FCoE
6 1 (2.27%) FTP
6 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.27%) SMTP
6 1 (2.27%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (2.27%) SSH
6 1 (2.27%) Telnet
6 1 (2.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
1 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
1 4 (9.09%) Subversion
1 4 (9.09%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (15.91%) Finance
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Analyst
2 12 (27.27%) Storage Analyst
3 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 9 (20.45%) Architect
5 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Architect
5 7 (15.91%) VMware Architect
6 6 (13.64%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Administrator
7 4 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (6.82%) DBA
8 3 (6.82%) Oracle DBA
9 2 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.27%) NetApp Engineer
10 1 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.27%) Subject Matter Expert
10 1 (2.27%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) Flash
2 4 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) LDAP
4 1 (2.27%) LAMP
4 1 (2.27%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.27%) libvirt
4 1 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (65.91%) Replication
2 16 (36.36%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (13.64%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (11.36%) Clustering
5 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.27%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (52.27%) Linux
2 10 (22.73%) Windows
3 8 (18.18%) Solaris
4 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
5 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (6.82%) Unix
8 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
9 1 (2.27%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (2.27%) MVS
9 1 (2.27%) VMS
9 1 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Agile
2 11 (25.00%) High Availability
2 11 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 10 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (22.73%) Migration
3 10 (22.73%) Ticket Management
4 8 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 8 (18.18%) DevOps
5 6 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.09%) API Integration
7 4 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (9.09%) Kernel Tuning
7 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 4 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 4 (9.09%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) Bash
2 5 (11.36%) Perl
2 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.36%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) MCSE
3 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.55%) VCP5
4 2 (4.55%) VCP6
4 2 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) GDPR
1 4 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (59.09%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (45.45%) vSphere
4 16 (36.36%) GPFS
5 4 (9.09%) Veritas File System
5 4 (9.09%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 4 (9.09%) VMware NSX
6 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
7 2 (4.55%) KVM
7 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.27%) Ceph
8 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (2.27%) iptables
8 1 (2.27%) Lustre
8 1 (2.27%) Samba
8 1 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (2.27%) SRDF
8 1 (2.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (2.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) vRealize
2 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.64%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) QRadar
4 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (4.55%) Terraform
5 2 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.27%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.27%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) SELinux
6 1 (2.27%) SnapMirror
6 1 (2.27%) SnapVault
6 1 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (70.45%) VMware
2 22 (50.00%) IBM
3 20 (45.45%) Oracle
4 16 (36.36%) ServiceNow
5 15 (34.09%) Cisco
6 13 (29.55%) NetApp
7 10 (22.73%) Splunk
8 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
9 6 (13.64%) EMC
9 6 (13.64%) Veeam
10 4 (9.09%) CyberArk
10 4 (9.09%) Qualys
10 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
10 4 (9.09%) SaltStack
11 2 (4.55%) Pure Storage
12 1 (2.27%) Citrix
12 1 (2.27%) F5
12 1 (2.27%) Google