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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 475 504
Rank change year-on-year -81 +29 +64
Contract jobs citing NFS 55 29 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.11% 0.090%
As % of the System Software category 1.22% 0.88% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 17
10th Percentile £316 £353 £254
25th Percentile £419 £600 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £300
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +116.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £538 - £388
90th Percentile £565 - £493
UK median daily rate £500 £638 £342
% change year-on-year -21.57% +86.40% -37.82%

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 4,517 3,291 3,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.01% 11.92% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,973 2,158 2,700
10th Percentile £218 £220 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £684 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 85 135
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.12 £14.06
25th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +57.56% -40.50%
75th Percentile £74.20 £80.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.88 £90.90 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
% change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -37 22 £500 - 1
London -44 20 £500 -23.08% 5
Yorkshire -28 15 £500 -
Midlands - 10 £398 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £411 - 1
North West - 7 £450 - 1
South West -41 3 - -
East Midlands - 1 £205 -
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 (12.73%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) CloudStack
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) AWS
2 23 (41.82%) Azure
3 12 (21.82%) OpenShift
4 9 (16.36%) IaaS
4 9 (16.36%) PaaS
5 5 (9.09%) GCP
5 5 (9.09%) SaaS
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (7.27%) GitHub
7 3 (5.45%) Cohesity
7 3 (5.45%) Rubrik
8 2 (3.64%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.64%) Datadog
8 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (36.36%) SAN
2 18 (32.73%) DNS
3 14 (25.45%) NAS
4 8 (14.55%) DHCP
4 8 (14.55%) VSAN
5 6 (10.91%) Firewall
5 6 (10.91%) Kerberos
6 4 (7.27%) VLAN
7 3 (5.45%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (5.45%) FTP
7 3 (5.45%) iSCSI
7 3 (5.45%) Network Security
7 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.64%) VPN
8 2 (3.64%) VXLAN
8 2 (3.64%) WAN
9 1 (1.82%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.82%) LAN
9 1 (1.82%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) Db2
2 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) Subversion
General
1 16 (29.09%) Banking
2 12 (21.82%) Finance
3 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Analyst
2 8 (14.55%) Architect
2 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Storage Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) NetApp Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Incident Manager
4 5 (9.09%) Major Incident Manager
4 5 (9.09%) Storage Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Production Manager
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 3 (5.45%) Storage Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Support Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Subject Matter Expert
8 1 (1.82%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) Flash
2 6 (10.91%) LDAP
3 4 (7.27%) Middleware
4 2 (3.64%) cloud-init
4 2 (3.64%) Web Services
4 2 (3.64%) YAML
5 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (34.55%) Replication
2 11 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (12.73%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (10.91%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (10.91%) Mainframe
5 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (9.09%) FlexPod
5 5 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (9.09%) Public Cloud
6 4 (7.27%) PKI
7 3 (5.45%) Clustering
8 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
8 2 (3.64%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (3.64%) EMC VNX
8 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 37 (67.27%) Linux
2 17 (30.91%) Unix
3 13 (23.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (18.18%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (12.73%) Windows
6 5 (9.09%) CoreOS
6 5 (9.09%) VMS
6 5 (9.09%) zOS
7 4 (7.27%) Ubuntu
8 3 (5.45%) AIX
9 1 (1.82%) CentOS
9 1 (1.82%) Rocky
9 1 (1.82%) SUSE
9 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Migration
2 14 (25.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (23.64%) Agile
3 13 (23.64%) Data Protection
3 13 (23.64%) Problem Management
3 13 (23.64%) Storage Management
4 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 9 (16.36%) ITIL
7 9 (16.36%) Ticket Management
8 7 (12.73%) Operational Stability
8 7 (12.73%) Task Automation
9 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.91%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (9.09%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) Bash
3 5 (9.09%) JCL
4 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.45%) Ruby
6 2 (3.64%) REXX
7 1 (1.82%) Java
7 1 (1.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) OCP
3 5 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 4 (7.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.64%) NCDA
5 2 (3.64%) NCIE
5 2 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.82%) MCSA
6 1 (1.82%) MCSE
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 23 (41.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (29.09%) vSphere
3 12 (21.82%) GPFS
3 12 (21.82%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (16.36%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (12.73%) Active Directory
6 5 (9.09%) Postfix
6 5 (9.09%) Time Sharing Option
6 5 (9.09%) Varnish
7 4 (7.27%) Sendmail
8 3 (5.45%) Hyper-V
8 3 (5.45%) KVM
8 3 (5.45%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Ceph
9 2 (3.64%) Docker
9 2 (3.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (3.64%) SRDF
10 1 (1.82%) Firmware
10 1 (1.82%) Samba
10 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (30.91%) Ansible
2 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 11 (20.00%) Terraform
4 10 (18.18%) SnapMirror
5 9 (16.36%) vRealize
6 8 (14.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 7 (12.73%) VxRail
8 5 (9.09%) HAProxy
9 4 (7.27%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (7.27%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (7.27%) Progress Chef
9 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
10 3 (5.45%) Grafana
10 3 (5.45%) PowerBroker
10 3 (5.45%) SELinux
10 3 (5.45%) Tivoli
10 3 (5.45%) vCenter Server
11 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (3.64%) SnapVault
11 2 (3.64%) vMotion
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) VMware
2 17 (30.91%) IBM
3 16 (29.09%) Oracle
4 13 (23.64%) Cisco
4 13 (23.64%) Red Hat
5 12 (21.82%) ServiceNow
6 11 (20.00%) NetApp
7 10 (18.18%) Dell
8 9 (16.36%) Brocade
9 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
9 7 (12.73%) Pure Storage
10 5 (9.09%) Broadcom
10 5 (9.09%) Google
10 5 (9.09%) Greenplum
10 5 (9.09%) Sybase
11 3 (5.45%) EMC
11 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
11 3 (5.45%) Veritas
12 2 (3.64%) Commvault
12 2 (3.64%) Veeam