NFS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Network File System (NFS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - +66
Contract jobs citing NFS 14 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.44% - 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 2.76% - 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £291 - £389
25th Percentile £297 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.67%
75th Percentile £383 - £488
90th Percentile £420 - -
England median daily rate £525 £501 £498
% change year-on-year +4.90% +0.60% -5.24%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 508 236 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.87% 10.23% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 161 246
10th Percentile £186 £158 £161
25th Percentile £306 £200 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +1.80% +6.71%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £530
90th Percentile £652 £662 £668
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.54 £16.68 £17.67
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -2.00% +4.40%
75th Percentile £25.58 £21.89 £20.19
90th Percentile £38.90 £28.68 £23.50
England median hourly rate £48.11 £29.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +63.08% -32.71% +75.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

NFS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing NFS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing NFS

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 14 £321 - 3
NFS
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (92.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
1 10 (71.43%) Storage Analyst
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 14 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) Ticket Management
3 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) GPFS
2 13 (92.86%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (92.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) vRealize
2 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
1 14 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 13 (92.86%) Cisco
2 13 (92.86%) VMware