GPFS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 223 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GPFS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.018% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £407 - £275
% change year-on-year - - -50.34%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 805 514 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.76% 15.70% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 328 477
10th Percentile £176 £178 £172
25th Percentile £331 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £542 £538 £538
90th Percentile £622 £600 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 8 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.18 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.03 £15.50
Median hourly rate £41.94 £23.14 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.28% +32.20% -57.83%
75th Percentile £74.26 £25.39 £19.50
90th Percentile £75.56 £43.55 £46.18
England median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £27.38
% change year-on-year +4.62% +18.69% -28.88%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GPFS job vacancy trend in the North of England

GPFS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GPFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GPFS

GPFS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GPFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GPFS

GPFS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPFS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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 West - 1 - - 1
GPFS
England

GPFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

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