GPFS Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GPFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GPFS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 393 423
Rank change year-on-year +56 +30 +86
Contract jobs citing GPFS 2 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.029% 0.10%
As % of the System Software category 0.11% 0.24% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile £401 - £453
25th Percentile £413 £263 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £484 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -15.79% +16.11%
75th Percentile £456 £722 £623
90th Percentile £466 - £636
UK median daily rate £600 £484 £575
% change year-on-year +23.97% -15.79% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

GPFS 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,809 2,459 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.14% 11.85% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,646 2,641
10th Percentile £190 £175 £180
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -3.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 194 187
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -45.00% +120.81%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £79.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +22.22% -58.14% +168.75%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GPFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GPFS in the UK excluding London

GPFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GPFS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GPFS in the UK excluding London

GPFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GPFS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GPFS in the UK excluding London

GPFS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPFS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +11 2 £436 -37.05% 1
GPFS
UK

GPFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
1 1 (50.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
2 1 (50.00%) Google