NFS Contracts in the South West

Network File System (NFS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 156 -
Rank change year-on-year +46 - -
Contract jobs citing NFS 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.060% 0.031% -
As % of the System Software category 0.35% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £681 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £688 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% - -
75th Percentile £488 £694 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £405 £583
% change year-on-year +35.80% -30.53% +2.28%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for NFS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for NFS in the South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat