NFS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Network File System (NFS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 88 143 -
Rank change year-on-year +55 - -
Contract jobs citing NFS 14 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.074% -
As % of the System Software category 7.04% 0.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £541 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
South East median daily rate £550 - £583
% change year-on-year - - +22.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £47.50 -

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 199 346 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.17% 12.88% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 246 265
10th Percentile £250 £175 £230
25th Percentile £363 £310 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +9.25% +6.20%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.86
25th Percentile - £46.25 £48.18
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +270.37%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £78.56
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for NFS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire - 14 £419 -
NFS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (57.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
1 3 (21.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DHCP
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
1 11 (78.57%) FTP
1 11 (78.57%) SMTP
1 11 (78.57%) Telnet
2 4 (28.57%) tcpdump
3 3 (21.43%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (35.71%) Workflow
2 5 (35.71%) Workflow Management
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Server Migrations
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Benchmarking
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Server Management
6 1 (7.14%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Samba
2 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (21.43%) VMware NSX
4 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) yum
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (21.43%) vRealize
2 3 (21.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (21.43%) HP
4 2 (14.29%) SAP