NFS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Network File System (NFS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 78 61
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing NFS 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.41% 0.13% 0.73%
As % of the System Software category 4.85% 1.28% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £459 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.63% -21.94%
75th Percentile £476 - £513
90th Percentile - - £528
Scotland median daily rate £468 £472 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% -0.63% -21.94%

All System Software Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 103 78 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.55% 10.40% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 40 78
10th Percentile £286 £236 £193
25th Percentile £375 £385 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +10.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £513
90th Percentile £588 £588 £683
Scotland median daily rate £450 £495 £422
% change year-on-year -9.00% +17.18% -11.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £49.38 £22.23
% change year-on-year -67.98% +122.08% -60.09%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

NFS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing NFS

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (60.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (40.00%) NAS
3 2 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Perl Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) POSIX
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (40.00%) NVMe
3 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Capacity Management
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (60.00%) OOP
3 3 (60.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Storage Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Brocade
2 2 (40.00%) EMC
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Veritas