NFS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Network File System (NFS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NFS 7 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.91% - 2.26%
As % of the System Software category 4.46% - 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £424 - £405
25th Percentile £463 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 - £430
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £495 - £438
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 - £430

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 157 66 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.39% 19.35% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 48 56
10th Percentile £350 £247 £220
25th Percentile £420 £486 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +27.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £588
90th Percentile £623 £683 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £440 £430
% change year-on-year +7.95% +2.33% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +100.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.33% - -2.33%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

NFS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in South Yorkshire

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

NFS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Sheffield - 7 £487 - 1
NFS
Yorkshire

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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