NFS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Network File System (NFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 315 369 408
Rank change year-on-year +54 +39 +69
Contract jobs citing NFS 21 30 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 1.16% 1.22% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 27
10th Percentile £325 £403 £423
25th Percentile £409 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £583
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -26.24% +29.56%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £585
90th Percentile £650 £708 £621
UK median daily rate £525 £413 £583
% change year-on-year +27.27% -29.25% +2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £47.50 -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,814 2,460 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.21% 11.84% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,649 2,640
10th Percentile £190 £175 £181
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £460 £483
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -4.69% +7.26%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £662 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 191 192
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £41.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -47.46% +131.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
South East +63 19 £550 - 5
South West +46 1 £475 -30.91%
Scotland +7 1 £472 -27.97% 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 8 (38.10%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) PaaS
3 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) DHCP
1 11 (52.38%) DNS
1 11 (52.38%) FTP
1 11 (52.38%) SMTP
1 11 (52.38%) Telnet
2 9 (42.86%) iSCSI
3 5 (23.81%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (19.05%) tcpdump
5 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
5 1 (4.76%) SAN
5 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Electronics
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.52%) Marketing
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) Flash
2 1 (4.76%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.76%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 10 (47.62%) Linux
3 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (23.81%) Workflow
2 5 (23.81%) Workflow Management
3 4 (19.05%) Edge Virtualization
3 4 (19.05%) Performance Analysis
3 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (19.05%) Server Migrations
3 4 (19.05%) SIEM
4 3 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (9.52%) Benchmarking
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) High Availability
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
5 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
3 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) MCSE
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (19.05%) VCP5
4 4 (19.05%) VCP6
4 4 (19.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.76%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (4.76%) RHCE
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Samba
2 8 (38.10%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
4 4 (19.05%) VMware NSX
4 4 (19.05%) vSphere
5 2 (9.52%) Docker
6 1 (4.76%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) yum
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) vRealize
2 4 (19.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.76%) Nagios
5 1 (4.76%) SELinux
5 1 (4.76%) Terraform
5 1 (4.76%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (4.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) VMware
2 5 (23.81%) NetApp
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) Splunk
3 4 (19.05%) Veeam
4 3 (14.29%) HP
5 2 (9.52%) SAP
6 1 (4.76%) Brocade
6 1 (4.76%) EMC
6 1 (4.76%) Google
6 1 (4.76%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) Sybase
6 1 (4.76%) Veritas