NFS Contracts in the South East

Network File System (NFS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring NFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NFS over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 200 197
Rank change year-on-year +62 -3 +60
Contract jobs citing NFS 15 2 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.036% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 3.55% 0.26% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 15
10th Percentile £325 - £550
25th Percentile £333 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £583
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.60%
75th Percentile £650 - £585
90th Percentile - - £587
England median daily rate £575 £395 £583
% change year-on-year +45.57% -32.25% +4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate - £47.50 -

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 423 773 825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.22% 14.10% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 489 576
10th Percentile £210 £200 £205
25th Percentile £329 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £600
90th Percentile £693 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £16.97 £15.88
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £53.19 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.52% +172.80%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.44 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.21 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +34.31% -58.00% +163.16%

NFS
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

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +42 10 £325 - 8
Berkshire - 10 £325 - 5
Hampshire - 5 £650 - 3
NFS
England

NFS
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DHCP
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
1 9 (60.00%) FTP
1 9 (60.00%) SMTP
1 9 (60.00%) Telnet
2 6 (40.00%) iSCSI
3 5 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (13.33%) tcpdump
5 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (40.00%) Linux
4 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Edge Virtualization
1 5 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
1 5 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 5 (33.33%) Workflow
1 5 (33.33%) Workflow Management
2 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Server Migrations
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
4 1 (6.67%) SIEM
4 1 (6.67%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) MCSE
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (33.33%) VCP5
3 5 (33.33%) VCP6
3 5 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Samba
1 6 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) vSphere
3 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) yum
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) NetApp
2 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (33.33%) Veeam
3 2 (13.33%) HP
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) SAP