NFS Contracts in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring NFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NFS over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 492 547
Rank change year-on-year +14 +55 +160
DemandTrendContract jobs citing NFS 28 31 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.093% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.85% 0.80% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 36
10th Percentile £600 £254 £376
25th Percentile £609 £281 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £300 £550
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -45.45% -21.43%
75th Percentile - £388 £626
90th Percentile £653 £493 £734
UK median daily rate £650 £385 £580
% change year-on-year +68.83% -33.62% -17.14%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,280 3,885 5,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.89% 11.68% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,119 2,688 4,023
10th Percentile £225 £229 £200
25th Percentile £382 £387 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 128 217
10th Percentile £15.02 £14.06 £14.97
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.70 £17.75
Median hourly rate £40.73 £24.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -35.52% +72.18%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £74.68 £75.70
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £24.18 £47.83
% change year-on-year +42.68% -49.45% +122.47%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NFS 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 August 2025.

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
DemandTrendContract 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 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 21 £650 -
London +15 5 £650 +116.67% 9
Yorkshire -15 1 - -
North of England -22 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) CICS
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
1 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) GitHub
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) Fibre Channel
1 18 (64.29%) iSCSI
2 6 (21.43%) DNS
3 4 (14.29%) DHCP
4 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.14%) FTP
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.57%) FCoE
6 1 (3.57%) Firewall
6 1 (3.57%) LAN
6 1 (3.57%) Multicast
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) SMTP
6 1 (3.57%) Telnet
6 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) Subversion
1 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Architect
1 18 (64.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 16 (57.14%) VMware Architect
3 8 (28.57%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Server Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Database Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) DBA
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Data Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Informatica Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) LDAP
1 2 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) Flash
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Replication
2 5 (17.86%) Clustering
3 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.57%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (75.00%) Windows
2 20 (71.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 19 (67.86%) Windows Server
4 7 (25.00%) Linux
5 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (14.29%) Unix
6 3 (10.71%) Solaris
7 1 (3.57%) MVS
7 1 (3.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Edge Virtualization
1 12 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
2 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 5 (17.86%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (17.86%) High Availability
3 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
4 4 (14.29%) Operational Stability
5 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.71%) Server Management
6 2 (7.14%) API Integration
6 2 (7.14%) Data Security
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Kernel Tuning
6 2 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.14%) Runbook
6 2 (7.14%) Security Hardening
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) AWK
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (7.14%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) sed
5 1 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (60.71%) MCSE
2 17 (60.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (57.14%) DV Cleared
4 13 (46.43%) VCP5
4 13 (46.43%) VCP6
4 13 (46.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (71.43%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (64.29%) vSphere
4 3 (10.71%) GPFS
5 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
5 2 (7.14%) Veritas File System
5 2 (7.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.57%) KVM
6 1 (3.57%) Samba
6 1 (3.57%) SRDF
6 1 (3.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (3.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Ansible
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (10.71%) WSUS
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (7.14%) QRadar
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.57%) vRealize
5 1 (3.57%) yum
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) VMware
2 19 (67.86%) Splunk
3 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (64.29%) NetApp
4 17 (60.71%) Veeam
5 4 (14.29%) Oracle
5 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 2 (7.14%) Cisco
6 2 (7.14%) CyberArk
6 2 (7.14%) IBM
6 2 (7.14%) Qualys
6 2 (7.14%) SaltStack
7 1 (3.57%) EMC
7 1 (3.57%) F5
7 1 (3.57%) Google
7 1 (3.57%) Informatica
7 1 (3.57%) Pure Storage
7 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow