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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 443 507
Rank change year-on-year -75 +64 +125
Contract jobs citing NFS 62 36 49
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.46% 1.10% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 19 26
10th Percentile £325 £350 £291
25th Percentile £402 £431 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £414
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +26.89% -29.03%
75th Percentile £530 £619 £543
90th Percentile £600 £650 £597
UK median daily rate £487 £525 £415
% change year-on-year -7.24% +26.51% -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 4,244 3,263 4,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.51% 13.11% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,899 2,223 2,872
10th Percentile £206 £206 £188
25th Percentile £400 £393 £313
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 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 82 208
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.74 £21.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% +36.67% -43.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.05 £87.83 £70.84
UK median hourly rate £42.31 £32.50 £30.45
% change year-on-year +30.19% +6.73% -26.21%

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 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 15 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
North of England -46 18 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 18 £394 - 3
Midlands - 18 £394 - 3
Yorkshire - 17 £500 - 1
London -38 16 £525 -10.29% 3
South East -66 8 £638 +21.43% 1
North West -29 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 (4.84%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.94%) AWS
2 14 (22.58%) OpenShift
3 13 (20.97%) Azure
4 5 (8.06%) GCP
5 3 (4.84%) PaaS
6 2 (3.23%) Cohesity
6 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.23%) Rubrik
6 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (38.71%) SAN
2 23 (37.10%) NAS
3 12 (19.35%) iSCSI
4 8 (12.90%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (9.68%) VSAN
6 4 (6.45%) DNS
7 3 (4.84%) DHCP
8 2 (3.23%) FTP
8 2 (3.23%) Kerberos
8 2 (3.23%) SMTP
8 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.23%) Telnet
9 1 (1.61%) Firewall
9 1 (1.61%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.61%) LAN
9 1 (1.61%) Network Security
9 1 (1.61%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.61%) SSH
9 1 (1.61%) VLAN
9 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Git
1 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (17.74%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Analyst
2 19 (30.65%) Storage Analyst
3 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) NetApp Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Subject Matter Expert
6 5 (8.06%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Architect
8 3 (4.84%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) Consultant
9 2 (3.23%) DBA
9 2 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
9 2 (3.23%) Senior
9 2 (3.23%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.23%) VMware Architect
9 2 (3.23%) Wintel Analyst
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Architect
10 1 (1.61%) Lead
10 1 (1.61%) Senior Storage Engineer
10 1 (1.61%) Storage Consultant
10 1 (1.61%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (30.65%) Flash
2 2 (3.23%) LDAP
3 1 (1.61%) LAMP
3 1 (1.61%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (1.61%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 38 (61.29%) Replication
2 19 (30.65%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (19.35%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (8.06%) FlexPod
4 5 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.23%) Clustering
6 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (46.77%) Linux
2 8 (12.90%) Data ONTAP
3 6 (9.68%) Unix
3 6 (9.68%) VMS
4 5 (8.06%) CoreOS
4 5 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.45%) Windows
6 2 (3.23%) Solaris
6 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.61%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Migration
2 17 (27.42%) Agile
3 16 (25.81%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (25.81%) Ticket Management
4 14 (22.58%) Data Protection
4 14 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (16.13%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (16.13%) Data Migration
6 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
6 9 (14.52%) High Availability
6 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (9.68%) Runbook
9 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (8.06%) Operational Stability
10 5 (8.06%) Task Automation
10 5 (8.06%) Validation
11 4 (6.45%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.84%) Python
3 2 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (1.61%) JCL
4 1 (1.61%) Korn
4 1 (1.61%) Perl
4 1 (1.61%) Ruby
4 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.06%) OCP
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) COBIT
System Software
1 38 (61.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (33.87%) vSphere
3 19 (30.65%) GPFS
4 18 (29.03%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
6 2 (3.23%) Postfix
6 2 (3.23%) Varnish
6 2 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.61%) Ceph
7 1 (1.61%) Firmware
7 1 (1.61%) iptables
7 1 (1.61%) KVM
7 1 (1.61%) Lustre
7 1 (1.61%) Samba
7 1 (1.61%) Sendmail
7 1 (1.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.61%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 18 (29.03%) vRealize
2 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.90%) Ansible
3 8 (12.90%) EMC VPLEX
3 8 (12.90%) SnapMirror
3 8 (12.90%) vMotion
4 6 (9.68%) Terraform
5 4 (6.45%) VxRail
6 3 (4.84%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.23%) vCenter Server
7 2 (3.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.61%) SELinux
8 1 (1.61%) SnapVault
8 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 40 (64.52%) VMware
2 25 (40.32%) IBM
3 21 (33.87%) Oracle
4 19 (30.65%) ServiceNow
5 16 (25.81%) Cisco
5 16 (25.81%) NetApp
6 13 (20.97%) Pure Storage
7 8 (12.90%) Commvault
8 5 (8.06%) EMC
8 5 (8.06%) Google
8 5 (8.06%) Red Hat
9 3 (4.84%) Isilon
10 2 (3.23%) Citrix
10 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.61%) Broadcom
11 1 (1.61%) Brocade
11 1 (1.61%) Dell