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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 453 484
Rank change year-on-year -47 +31 +106
Contract jobs citing NFS 79 23 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.095% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.88% 0.75% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 13 26
10th Percentile £369 £325 £281
25th Percentile £413 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £395
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +45.57% -32.25%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £430
90th Percentile £600 - £536
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £405
% change year-on-year -6.67% +29.63% -30.53%
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 4,191 3,049 3,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.21% 12.53% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 2,098 2,783
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 70 209
10th Percentile £17.46 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.12 £18.13 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.75 £28.71 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.77% +36.69% -58.00%
75th Percentile £71.76 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.25 £88.08 £75.60
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £28.21 £22.40
% change year-on-year +86.14% +25.92% -58.52%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 - 29 £494 - 1
Yorkshire - 24 £500 - 1
London -42 23 £525 -21.64% 2
Midlands - 20 £402 -
West Midlands - 19 £402 -
North West - 5 £383 -
South East -72 4 £675 +12.50% 1
South West -23 3 - - 2
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 (8.86%) Apache
2 1 (1.27%) CloudStack
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.24%) AWS
2 20 (25.32%) OpenShift
3 19 (24.05%) Azure
4 7 (8.86%) PaaS
5 5 (6.33%) GCP
5 5 (6.33%) IaaS
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (3.80%) Cohesity
7 3 (3.80%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.53%) GitHub
9 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.27%) Datadog
9 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (40.51%) SAN
2 29 (36.71%) NAS
3 15 (18.99%) iSCSI
4 12 (15.19%) DNS
5 11 (13.92%) Fibre Channel
6 9 (11.39%) VSAN
7 5 (6.33%) DHCP
8 4 (5.06%) Kerberos
8 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
8 4 (5.06%) VLAN
9 3 (3.80%) Firewall
10 2 (2.53%) FTP
10 2 (2.53%) Network Security
10 2 (2.53%) SSH
10 2 (2.53%) VPN
11 1 (1.27%) LAN
11 1 (1.27%) SMTP
11 1 (1.27%) Telnet
11 1 (1.27%) VXLAN
11 1 (1.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) MySQL
1 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.27%) DB2
2 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.06%) Git
General
1 15 (18.99%) Banking
2 12 (15.19%) Finance
2 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Analyst
2 19 (24.05%) Storage Analyst
3 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 12 (15.19%) Storage Engineer
5 9 (11.39%) Architect
6 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) NetApp Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Subject Matter Expert
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Senior
8 4 (5.06%) Storage Manager
9 2 (2.53%) Consultant
9 2 (2.53%) Storage Architect
9 2 (2.53%) VMware Architect
10 1 (1.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 1 (1.27%) Infrastructure Support
10 1 (1.27%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (1.27%) Support Engineer
10 1 (1.27%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.11%) Flash
2 4 (5.06%) LDAP
3 2 (2.53%) Web Services
4 1 (1.27%) cloud-init
4 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.27%) LAMP
4 1 (1.27%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (1.27%) libvirt
4 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (56.96%) Replication
2 22 (27.85%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (20.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.33%) FlexPod
4 5 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.80%) Clustering
7 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.53%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.27%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.27%) EMC VNX
8 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (56.96%) Linux
2 15 (18.99%) Unix
3 11 (13.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (12.66%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (7.59%) VMS
6 5 (6.33%) CoreOS
7 4 (5.06%) zOS
8 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.80%) Windows
9 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
10 1 (1.27%) AIX
10 1 (1.27%) CentOS
10 1 (1.27%) Rocky
10 1 (1.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.30%) Migration
2 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (25.32%) Agile
3 20 (25.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 20 (25.32%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (22.78%) Data Protection
5 17 (21.52%) Capacity Planning
5 17 (21.52%) Ticket Management
6 13 (16.46%) Containerisation
7 12 (15.19%) High Availability
8 11 (13.92%) Performance Optimisation
8 11 (13.92%) Storage Management
9 10 (12.66%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (11.39%) Data Migration
10 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (10.13%) Problem Management
11 8 (10.13%) Runbook
12 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (8.86%) Task Automation
13 6 (7.59%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.92%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) Bash
3 4 (5.06%) JCL
3 4 (5.06%) Shell Script
4 3 (3.80%) Ruby
5 2 (2.53%) Perl
6 1 (1.27%) Korn
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) OCP
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) NCDA
4 1 (1.27%) NCIE
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) COBIT
System Software
1 38 (48.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (29.11%) GPFS
2 23 (29.11%) vSphere
3 20 (25.32%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (10.13%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (6.33%) Postfix
5 5 (6.33%) Varnish
6 4 (5.06%) Sendmail
6 4 (5.06%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
7 3 (3.80%) KVM
8 2 (2.53%) Ceph
8 2 (2.53%) Docker
8 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
8 2 (2.53%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.27%) iptables
9 1 (1.27%) Lustre
9 1 (1.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (1.27%) SRDF
9 1 (1.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (24.05%) vRealize
2 17 (21.52%) Kubernetes
3 15 (18.99%) Ansible
4 10 (12.66%) SnapMirror
5 9 (11.39%) EMC VPLEX
5 9 (11.39%) Terraform
6 8 (10.13%) vMotion
6 8 (10.13%) VxRail
7 6 (7.59%) HAProxy
8 5 (6.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 3 (3.80%) SELinux
10 2 (2.53%) Grafana
10 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (2.53%) SnapVault
10 2 (2.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (1.27%) Argo
11 1 (1.27%) PowerBroker
11 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (53.16%) VMware
2 32 (40.51%) IBM
3 25 (31.65%) Oracle
4 23 (29.11%) ServiceNow
5 20 (25.32%) Cisco
6 18 (22.78%) NetApp
7 17 (21.52%) Pure Storage
8 10 (12.66%) Red Hat
9 8 (10.13%) Commvault
10 7 (8.86%) Brocade
10 7 (8.86%) Dell
11 6 (7.59%) EMC
11 6 (7.59%) Microsoft
12 5 (6.33%) Google
13 4 (5.06%) Broadcom
14 3 (3.80%) Isilon
15 1 (1.27%) 3PAR
15 1 (1.27%) OneTrust
15 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
15 1 (1.27%) Splunk