NFS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Network File System (NFS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 138 114 112
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 +23
Contract jobs citing NFS 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.21% 0.062% 0.27%
As % of the System Software category 1.98% 0.68% 2.25%
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
UK median daily rate £465 £650 £470
% change year-on-year -28.46% +38.37% -20.04%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 253 146 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.57% 9.06% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 84 162
10th Percentile £205 £204 £183
25th Percentile £375 £401 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £422
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +17.18% -11.16%
75th Percentile £514 £550 £494
90th Percentile £619 £588 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £13.97 £28.31 £15.70
25th Percentile £14.89 £36.09 £18.55
Median hourly rate £15.81 £49.38 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year -67.98% +122.08% -60.09%
75th Percentile - £62.34 £24.18
90th Percentile - £69.94 £49.59
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £34.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +83.82% +23.64% -42.50%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

NFS job vacancy trend in Scotland

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NFS

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing NFS

NFS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
Glasgow -17 5 £468 -0.95% 2
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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