NFS Contracts in the South East

Network File System (NFS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 195 253
Rank change year-on-year -2 +58 -46
Contract jobs citing NFS 2 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.036% 0.35% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 2.36% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 6
10th Percentile - £550 £363
25th Percentile - £569 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £583 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +22.74% -7.77%
75th Percentile - £585 £563
90th Percentile - £587 £581
England median daily rate £405 £583 £570
% change year-on-year -30.53% +2.28% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 784 848 1,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.13% 14.72% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 598 911
10th Percentile £200 £204 £163
25th Percentile £350 £354 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 45 57
10th Percentile £17.11 £16.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £54.56 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +172.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £63.13 £70.00 £24.25
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £67.71
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for NFS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
Thames Valley - 2 - -
NFS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) HNC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CFEngine
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet