NFS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Network File System (NFS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NFS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.90% - -
As % of the System Software category 4.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 - £423

All System Software Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 149 53 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.25% 21.46% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 38 47
10th Percentile £360 £209 £250
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £520 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +10.64% -14.55%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £594
90th Percentile £636 £656 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £534 £430
% change year-on-year -9.27% +24.19% -21.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - +105.97%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

NFS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing NFS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in Sheffield

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing NFS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (14.29%) CICS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 7 (100.00%) NAS
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) FCoE
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Replication
2 6 (85.71%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) MVS
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (71.43%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
3 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) KVM
1 1 (14.29%) SRDF
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) EMC
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
1 6 (85.71%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Pure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) VMware