NFS Contracts in the North of England

Network File System (NFS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for NFS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NFS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 215 246
Rank change year-on-year +45 +31 -59
Contract jobs citing NFS 19 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.40% 0.017% 0.014%
As % of the System Software category 3.41% 0.12% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £404 - £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £420 £195
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +115.38% -51.25%
75th Percentile £430 - £203
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £395 £583 £566
% change year-on-year -32.25% +2.96% +25.83%

All System Software Skills
North of England

NFS is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 558 833 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.85% 14.34% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 623 774
10th Percentile £178 £178 £156
25th Percentile £275 £305 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +17.06% +0.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 47
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.78 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% +52.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £18.97 £63.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.53 £25.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for NFS in the North of England

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in the North of England

NFS
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 NFS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +38 18 £423 +0.60%
North West - 1 £225 - 1
NFS
England

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) GitHub
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
1 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.26%) IPsec
1 1 (5.26%) SNMP
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 15 (78.95%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Storage Manager
2 1 (5.26%) IBM Storage Specialist
2 1 (5.26%) IT Support
2 1 (5.26%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (5.26%) IT Technician
2 1 (5.26%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (5.26%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Linux
2 18 (94.74%) zOS
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Storage Management
2 17 (89.47%) Agile
2 17 (89.47%) Problem Management
3 14 (73.68%) Project Management
4 13 (68.42%) Cost Management
4 13 (68.42%) Software Testing
4 13 (68.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) JCL
2 15 (78.95%) Python
2 15 (78.95%) REXX
System Software
1 18 (94.74%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (94.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 15 (78.95%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) Broadcom
1 18 (94.74%) Brocade
1 18 (94.74%) CA
1 18 (94.74%) Dell
1 18 (94.74%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco