NFS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network File System (NFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for NFS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NFS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 394 475
Rank change year-on-year +37 +81 -49
Contract jobs citing NFS 31 53 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.22% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.26% 1.47% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 18
10th Percentile £382 £423 £212
25th Percentile £406 £503 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £583 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.24% +29.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £626 £585 £491
90th Percentile £705 £621 £554
UK median daily rate £409 £583 £573
% change year-on-year -29.89% +1.83% +27.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

NFS is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,463 3,601 4,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.93% 15.08% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,655 2,606 3,318
10th Percentile £178 £180 £158
25th Percentile £280 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.82%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £680 £644
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.48% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 188 243
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.93%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £71.13 £51.55
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the UK excluding London

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for NFS in the UK excluding London

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the UK excluding London

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for NFS in the UK excluding London

NFS
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 NFS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
North of England +45 19 £415 -1.19% 1
Yorkshire +38 18 £423 +0.60%
Scotland +21 7 £655 +14.75%
East of England +9 2 £350 - 2
South East +3 2 - - 2
South West - 1 £688 - 1
North West - 1 £225 - 1
NFS
UK

NFS
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 7 (22.58%) SAS
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) GitHub
2 5 (16.13%) Azure
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) IaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (22.58%) iSCSI
2 4 (12.90%) SAN
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
4 1 (3.23%) DHCP
4 1 (3.23%) FTP
4 1 (3.23%) HTTP
4 1 (3.23%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.23%) InfiniBand
4 1 (3.23%) Internet
4 1 (3.23%) IPsec
4 1 (3.23%) SNMP
4 1 (3.23%) SSH
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DB2
2 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) GoCD
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Storage Manager
2 5 (16.13%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) IBM Storage Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) IT Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) IT Support
5 1 (3.23%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (3.23%) IT Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) IT Technician
5 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) YAML
2 7 (22.58%) Flash
2 7 (22.58%) POSIX
3 2 (6.45%) LDAP
4 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.13%) NVMe
3 4 (12.90%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Grid Computing
4 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (96.77%) Linux
2 18 (58.06%) zOS
3 9 (29.03%) Windows
4 8 (25.81%) Unix
5 7 (22.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
7 4 (12.90%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
8 1 (3.23%) Solaris
8 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Storage Management
2 22 (70.97%) Problem Management
3 18 (58.06%) Agile
4 15 (48.39%) Project Management
5 13 (41.94%) Cost Management
5 13 (41.94%) Software Testing
5 13 (41.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (22.58%) SDLC
7 6 (19.35%) Capacity Management
8 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
8 5 (16.13%) High Availability
8 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (16.13%) Observability
8 5 (16.13%) Preventative Maintenance
9 4 (12.90%) Customer Requirements
9 4 (12.90%) DevOps
9 4 (12.90%) OO
9 4 (12.90%) Storage Virtualisation
10 3 (9.68%) Investment Management
10 3 (9.68%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 18 (58.06%) JCL
3 15 (48.39%) REXX
4 7 (22.58%) Java
4 7 (22.58%) SQL
5 6 (19.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) HNC
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 18 (58.06%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (16.13%) Docker
3 4 (12.90%) GPFS
4 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.23%) HDFS
5 1 (3.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (58.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 17 (54.84%) Ansible
3 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (3.23%) CFEngine
5 1 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.23%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) Brocade
1 22 (70.97%) IBM
2 18 (58.06%) Broadcom
2 18 (58.06%) CA
2 18 (58.06%) Dell
3 4 (12.90%) EMC
3 4 (12.90%) Google
3 4 (12.90%) NetApp
3 4 (12.90%) Sybase
3 4 (12.90%) Veritas
4 1 (3.23%) BMC
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Citrix
4 1 (3.23%) Isilon
4 1 (3.23%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) VMware