NFS Contract Job Trends

Network File System (NFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 497 548
Rank change year-on-year -66 +51 +57
Contract jobs citing NFS 80 29 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.097% 0.091%
As % of the System Software category 1.62% 0.80% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 22 25
10th Percentile £368 £330 £281
25th Percentile £413 £465 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £625 £350
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% +78.57% -39.55%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £415
90th Percentile £596 - £467
UK excluding London median daily rate £451 £650 £378
% change year-on-year -30.69% +72.19% -34.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £47.50

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,941 3,645 4,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 12.21% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,391 3,303
10th Percentile £220 £215 £205
25th Percentile £400 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £695 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 87 229
10th Percentile £15.04 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% +15.80% -55.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 £69.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £91.50 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% +36.36% -25.78%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

NFS job vacancy trend in the UK

NFS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NFS

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the UK

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NFS

NFS
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
England -52 72 £483 -25.69% 4
UK excluding London -77 51 £451 -30.69% 5
North of England - 27 £500 -
Work from Home -31 24 £458 +22.33% 1
London -52 23 £513 -22.35% 2
Yorkshire - 20 £500 -
Midlands - 17 £402 -
West Midlands - 16 £402 -
North West - 7 £450 -
South West -26 3 - - 1
South East -77 2 £675 +3.85% 2
Scotland -8 1 - -
Wales - 1 £490 - 1

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (10.00%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) CloudStack
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (36.25%) AWS
2 22 (27.50%) Azure
3 16 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.50%) GCP
4 6 (7.50%) PaaS
5 5 (6.25%) IaaS
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.00%) GitHub
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.75%) Cohesity
7 3 (3.75%) Rubrik
8 2 (2.50%) Datadog
8 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.25%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (40.00%) SAN
2 23 (28.75%) NAS
3 18 (22.50%) DNS
4 9 (11.25%) VLAN
4 9 (11.25%) VSAN
5 8 (10.00%) DHCP
6 6 (7.50%) iSCSI
7 5 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (5.00%) FTP
8 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 3 (3.75%) Kerberos
10 2 (2.50%) Firewall
10 2 (2.50%) Network Security
10 2 (2.50%) SSH
10 2 (2.50%) VPN
10 2 (2.50%) VXLAN
11 1 (1.25%) SMTP
11 1 (1.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) Db2
1 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.25%) MySQL
1 1 (1.25%) OpenStack Swift
1 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.25%) Git
General
1 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Banking
3 10 (12.50%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Analyst
2 16 (20.00%) Storage Analyst
3 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Architect
6 7 (8.75%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) NetApp Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Storage Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Subject Matter Expert
7 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Consultant
8 4 (5.00%) Senior
9 3 (3.75%) Storage Architect
10 2 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Storage Consultant
11 1 (1.25%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.00%) Flash
2 3 (3.75%) LDAP
3 2 (2.50%) cloud-init
3 2 (2.50%) Web Services
3 2 (2.50%) YAML
4 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 38 (47.50%) Replication
2 19 (23.75%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (15.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (8.75%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (7.50%) FlexPod
6 5 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (6.25%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.75%) Clustering
8 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.50%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.50%) EMC VNX
8 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 52 (65.00%) Linux
2 19 (23.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (20.00%) Unix
4 13 (16.25%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (7.50%) CoreOS
5 6 (7.50%) VMS
6 5 (6.25%) Ubuntu
6 5 (6.25%) Windows
6 5 (6.25%) zOS
7 3 (3.75%) AIX
8 2 (2.50%) Rocky
8 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
9 1 (1.25%) CentOS
9 1 (1.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) Migration
2 20 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (22.50%) Agile
4 17 (21.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (18.75%) Storage Management
6 14 (17.50%) Data Protection
6 14 (17.50%) Ticket Management
7 13 (16.25%) Capacity Planning
7 13 (16.25%) Performance Tuning
7 13 (16.25%) Problem Management
8 11 (13.75%) Data Migration
8 11 (13.75%) Task Automation
9 10 (12.50%) Runbook
9 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (11.25%) ITIL
11 8 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 7 (8.75%) Configuration Management
12 7 (8.75%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (7.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) Python
2 14 (17.50%) Bash
3 5 (6.25%) JCL
4 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.75%) Ruby
6 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.50%) REXX
7 1 (1.25%) Korn
7 1 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) OCP
4 6 (7.50%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) NCDA
6 2 (2.50%) NCIE
6 2 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 37 (46.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (27.50%) vSphere
3 20 (25.00%) GPFS
4 17 (21.25%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (13.75%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (6.25%) Postfix
6 5 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
6 5 (6.25%) Varnish
7 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
7 4 (5.00%) Sendmail
8 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
8 3 (3.75%) KVM
8 3 (3.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (2.50%) Ceph
9 2 (2.50%) Docker
9 2 (2.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (2.50%) SRDF
10 1 (1.25%) Firmware
10 1 (1.25%) iptables
10 1 (1.25%) Samba
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Ansible
2 15 (18.75%) vRealize
3 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.25%) SnapMirror
4 11 (13.75%) Terraform
5 10 (12.50%) EMC VPLEX
6 8 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 8 (10.00%) vMotion
7 7 (8.75%) VxRail
8 6 (7.50%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (6.25%) HAProxy
10 4 (5.00%) Grafana
10 4 (5.00%) Progress Chef
10 4 (5.00%) SELinux
11 3 (3.75%) PowerBroker
11 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
11 3 (3.75%) SnapVault
11 3 (3.75%) Tivoli
12 2 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (2.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 40 (50.00%) VMware
2 25 (31.25%) IBM
3 24 (30.00%) Oracle
4 20 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 18 (22.50%) Cisco
5 18 (22.50%) Red Hat
6 17 (21.25%) Pure Storage
7 16 (20.00%) NetApp
8 9 (11.25%) Brocade
8 9 (11.25%) Dell
9 8 (10.00%) Commvault
10 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
11 6 (7.50%) Google
12 5 (6.25%) Broadcom
13 3 (3.75%) Isilon
13 3 (3.75%) Veeam
13 3 (3.75%) Veritas
14 2 (2.50%) 3PAR
14 2 (2.50%) EMC
14 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds