NFS Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Network File System (NFS)
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NFS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.24% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £490 - -

All System Software Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 34 40 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 8.23% 16.74% 9.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 27
10th Percentile £233 £185 £177
25th Percentile £290 £217 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% -18.75% +2.56%
75th Percentile £546 £472 £531
90th Percentile £575 £545 £619
Wales median daily rate £370 £388 £500
% change year-on-year -4.52% -22.50% +12.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £12.21 £28.50 -
25th Percentile £16.61 £31.88 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.25 £37.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +200.00% -27.55%
75th Percentile £23.26 £41.25 £12.75
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £37.50 £15.84
% change year-on-year -43.33% +136.82% -3.71%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

NFS job vacancy trend in South Wales

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing NFS

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing NFS

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Newport - 1 £490 - 1
NFS
Wales

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SnapMirror
1 1 (100.00%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware