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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 451 506
Rank change year-on-year -53 +55 +111
Contract jobs citing NFS 65 37 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.53% 1.13% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 19 25
10th Percentile £325 £350 £289
25th Percentile £402 £431 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £415
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +20.60% -28.82%
75th Percentile £539 £581 £575
90th Percentile £620 £630 £598
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £415
% change year-on-year -0.10% +20.60% -28.82%
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 4,235 3,268 4,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.72% 12.97% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,899 2,197 2,900
10th Percentile £205 £206 £188
25th Percentile £400 £390 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 80 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.37 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% +36.67% -41.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.65 £88.00 £76.13
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £31.38
% change year-on-year +29.05% +3.59% -21.56%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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
West Midlands - 18 £394 - 2
Midlands - 18 £394 - 2
London -38 17 £525 -10.29% 4
North of England -43 17 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 16 £500 -
South East -54 10 £650 +30.00% 2
North West -33 1 - - 1
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 3 (4.62%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 27 (41.54%) AWS
2 14 (21.54%) Azure
2 14 (21.54%) OpenShift
3 5 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (4.62%) PaaS
4 3 (4.62%) SaaS
5 2 (3.08%) Cohesity
5 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.08%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.92%) SAN
2 23 (35.38%) NAS
3 14 (21.54%) iSCSI
4 10 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (12.31%) VSAN
6 5 (7.69%) DNS
7 3 (4.62%) DHCP
7 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.08%) FTP
8 2 (3.08%) Kerberos
8 2 (3.08%) SMTP
8 2 (3.08%) Telnet
9 1 (1.54%) Firewall
9 1 (1.54%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.54%) LAN
9 1 (1.54%) Network Security
9 1 (1.54%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.54%) SSH
9 1 (1.54%) VLAN
9 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
1 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.54%) Subversion
2 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (16.92%) Finance
2 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Banking
4 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Analyst
2 19 (29.23%) Storage Analyst
3 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (10.77%) NetApp Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Subject Matter Expert
6 5 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) DBA
7 3 (4.62%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.62%) VMware Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Senior
8 2 (3.08%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Wintel Analyst
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Architect
9 1 (1.54%) Lead
9 1 (1.54%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (1.54%) Senior Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (29.23%) Flash
2 2 (3.08%) LDAP
3 1 (1.54%) LAMP
3 1 (1.54%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (1.54%) libvirt
3 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (60.00%) Replication
2 19 (29.23%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (18.46%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (7.69%) FlexPod
4 5 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.62%) Clustering
6 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (46.15%) Linux
2 8 (12.31%) Data ONTAP
3 6 (9.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (9.23%) Unix
3 6 (9.23%) VMS
3 6 (9.23%) Windows
4 5 (7.69%) CoreOS
5 4 (6.15%) Solaris
5 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Migration
2 17 (26.15%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (24.62%) Agile
3 16 (24.62%) Ticket Management
4 15 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 11 (16.92%) Data Migration
7 10 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (15.38%) High Availability
8 9 (13.85%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (12.31%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (9.23%) CI/CD
11 6 (9.23%) DevOps
11 6 (9.23%) Runbook
11 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (7.69%) Operational Stability
12 5 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.15%) Python
3 3 (4.62%) Bash
4 2 (3.08%) Perl
4 2 (3.08%) SQL
5 1 (1.54%) Korn
5 1 (1.54%) Ruby
5 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.69%) OCP
3 5 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) MCSE
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) COBIT
1 1 (1.54%) GDPR
1 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (35.38%) vSphere
3 21 (32.31%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (29.23%) GPFS
5 6 (9.23%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (6.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
8 2 (3.08%) Postfix
8 2 (3.08%) Varnish
8 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (3.08%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.54%) Ceph
9 1 (1.54%) Firmware
9 1 (1.54%) iptables
9 1 (1.54%) KVM
9 1 (1.54%) Lustre
9 1 (1.54%) Sendmail
9 1 (1.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (1.54%) Veritas File System
9 1 (1.54%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) vRealize
2 11 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.85%) Ansible
4 8 (12.31%) EMC VPLEX
4 8 (12.31%) SnapMirror
4 8 (12.31%) vMotion
5 6 (9.23%) Terraform
6 4 (6.15%) VxRail
7 3 (4.62%) HAProxy
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
8 2 (3.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.54%) QRadar
9 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.54%) SELinux
9 1 (1.54%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 43 (66.15%) VMware
2 24 (36.92%) IBM
3 22 (33.85%) Oracle
4 19 (29.23%) ServiceNow
5 18 (27.69%) NetApp
6 16 (24.62%) Cisco
7 13 (20.00%) Pure Storage
8 8 (12.31%) Commvault
9 6 (9.23%) Red Hat
10 5 (7.69%) EMC
10 5 (7.69%) Google
11 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
12 3 (4.62%) Isilon
12 3 (4.62%) Splunk
13 2 (3.08%) Citrix
13 2 (3.08%) Veeam
14 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
14 1 (1.54%) Qualys
14 1 (1.54%) SaltStack