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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 475 505
Rank change year-on-year -110 +30 +26
Contract jobs citing NFS 48 34 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the System Software category 1.04% 1.03% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 8
10th Percentile £291 - £213
25th Percentile £413 £600 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £650 £386
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +68.39% -29.82%
75th Percentile £550 - £525
90th Percentile £588 - £548
UK median daily rate £490 £650 £460
% change year-on-year -24.62% +41.30% -20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £81.86 - -
25th Percentile £84.69 - -
Median hourly rate £92.11 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.11 - -

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 4,628 3,311 3,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.01% 12.10% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,127 2,563
10th Percentile £213 £216 £221
25th Percentile £388 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -
75th Percentile £597 £600 £608
90th Percentile £680 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 93 101
10th Percentile £17.63 £15.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £33.70 £23.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £37.50 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +54.96% -49.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £92.38 £91.20 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £34.00 £24.20
% change year-on-year +85.69% +40.50% -51.60%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -56 15 £474 - 3
London -80 13 £500 -23.08% 19
Yorkshire -24 9 £530 - 1
Midlands -40 8 £438 -
East of England - 8 £513 - 15
West Midlands -49 6 £488 -
North West - 6 £450 - 2
South West - 4 - - 1
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 (14.58%) IIS
2 5 (10.42%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) CloudStack
4 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 15 (31.25%) Azure
3 8 (16.67%) IaaS
3 8 (16.67%) PaaS
4 7 (14.58%) OpenShift
5 5 (10.42%) SaaS
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.17%) Datadog
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.08%) Cohesity
9 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.08%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 17 (35.42%) DNS
2 14 (29.17%) SAN
3 11 (22.92%) NAS
4 9 (18.75%) DHCP
5 7 (14.58%) HTTP
6 6 (12.50%) Firewall
6 6 (12.50%) Kerberos
6 6 (12.50%) VSAN
7 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
8 4 (8.33%) VLAN
9 3 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (6.25%) FTP
9 3 (6.25%) iSCSI
10 2 (4.17%) Network Security
10 2 (4.17%) VPN
10 2 (4.17%) VXLAN
10 2 (4.17%) WAN
11 1 (2.08%) Ethernet
11 1 (2.08%) LAN
11 1 (2.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Db2
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.42%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Banking
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Back Office
4 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Security Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Incident Manager
5 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Major Incident Manager
5 5 (10.42%) Storage Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Storage Manager
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Production Manager
7 3 (6.25%) Storage Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Support Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Senior
9 1 (2.08%) Linux Administrator
9 1 (2.08%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) LDAP
2 9 (18.75%) Flash
3 7 (14.58%) JSON
3 7 (14.58%) Regular Expression
4 6 (12.50%) Terraform
5 4 (8.33%) Middleware
6 2 (4.17%) cloud-init
6 2 (4.17%) Web Services
6 2 (4.17%) YAML
7 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Replication
2 12 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (14.58%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (12.50%) Mainframe
6 5 (10.42%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (8.33%) PKI
8 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
9 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
9 2 (4.17%) CSOC
9 2 (4.17%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (4.17%) EMC VNX
9 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
9 2 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (58.33%) Linux
2 16 (33.33%) Unix
3 14 (29.17%) Windows
4 10 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.33%) AIX
5 4 (8.33%) Ubuntu
5 4 (8.33%) zOS
6 3 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.08%) CentOS
7 1 (2.08%) Rocky
7 1 (2.08%) Solaris
7 1 (2.08%) SUSE
7 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (27.08%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 12 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 11 (22.92%) Migration
4 11 (22.92%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (20.83%) ITIL
6 9 (18.75%) Agile
6 9 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (16.67%) SIEM
8 7 (14.58%) AI
8 7 (14.58%) Data Protection
8 7 (14.58%) Machine Learning
8 7 (14.58%) Network Packet Capture
8 7 (14.58%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
8 7 (14.58%) Threat Detection
9 6 (12.50%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) Python
2 10 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 9 (18.75%) Bash
4 4 (8.33%) JCL
4 4 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.17%) REXX
5 2 (4.17%) Ruby
6 1 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) Degree
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) NCDA
5 2 (4.17%) NCIE
5 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.08%) MCSA
6 1 (2.08%) MCSE
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.08%) RHCE
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (29.17%) Active Directory
3 10 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 10 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (18.75%) GPFS
4 9 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (16.67%) vSphere
6 4 (8.33%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (8.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 3 (6.25%) Docker
7 3 (6.25%) KVM
7 3 (6.25%) Postfix
7 3 (6.25%) Sendmail
7 3 (6.25%) Varnish
8 2 (4.17%) Ceph
8 2 (4.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (4.17%) SRDF
9 1 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (2.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Ansible
2 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 7 (14.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (12.50%) vRealize
5 5 (10.42%) Progress Chef
5 5 (10.42%) VxRail
6 4 (8.33%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (8.33%) Prometheus
7 3 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (6.25%) Grafana
7 3 (6.25%) HAProxy
7 3 (6.25%) NetBackup
7 3 (6.25%) PowerBroker
7 3 (6.25%) Puppet
7 3 (6.25%) SELinux
7 3 (6.25%) SnapMirror
7 3 (6.25%) Tivoli
7 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
8 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (43.75%) VMware
2 14 (29.17%) Oracle
3 13 (27.08%) IBM
4 10 (20.83%) Cisco
4 10 (20.83%) Dell
4 10 (20.83%) Red Hat
4 10 (20.83%) ServiceNow
5 8 (16.67%) Brocade
6 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
7 5 (10.42%) Greenplum
7 5 (10.42%) NetApp
7 5 (10.42%) Pure Storage
7 5 (10.42%) Sybase
8 4 (8.33%) Broadcom
8 4 (8.33%) Veritas
9 3 (6.25%) EMC
9 3 (6.25%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.17%) 3PAR
10 2 (4.17%) Veeam
11 1 (2.08%) Splunk