GPFS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring GPFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GPFS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.071% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -

All System Software Skills
Manchester

GPFS 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 155 135 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.93% 13.18% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 93 161
10th Percentile £311 £179 £275
25th Percentile £366 £360 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +1.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £581 £563 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.43% -11.06% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £35.75 - £14.98
25th Percentile £59.38 - £17.56
Median hourly rate £85.00 £29.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +193.10% +61.11% -70.85%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - £35.75
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £23.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +84.50% +30.56% -59.55%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

GPFS job vacancy trend in Manchester

GPFS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GPFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GPFS

GPFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) VMware