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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 635 | 530 | 547 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -105 | +17 | +9 |
| Contract jobs citing NFS | 53 | 36 | 27 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 0.096% | 0.11% | 0.072% |
| As % of the System Software category | 0.97% | 0.88% | 0.63% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 26 | 21 | 11 |
| 10th Percentile | £316 | £580 | £213 |
| 25th Percentile | £416 | £600 | £425 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £466 | £650 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -28.27% | +36.84% | -13.64% |
| 75th Percentile | £542 | - | £525 |
| 90th Percentile | £588 | - | £538 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £466 | £650 | £471 |
| % change year-on-year | -28.27% | +37.93% | -0.79% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £81.86 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £84.69 | - | - |
| Median hourly rate | £92.11 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £92.11 | - | - |
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.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills | 5,453 | 4,094 | 4,298 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 9.92% | 12.30% | 11.48% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 3,606 | 2,594 | 2,790 |
| 10th Percentile | £225 | £213 | £213 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £378 | £374 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £500 | £500 |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £588 | £608 |
| 90th Percentile | £688 | £675 | £700 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £475 | £475 | £475 |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 256 | 131 | 92 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.50 | £14.99 | £16.10 |
| 25th Percentile | £25.75 | £17.56 | £21.20 |
| Median hourly rate | £60.17 | £27.50 | £44.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +118.78% | -37.50% | -12.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £74.00 | £67.00 | £70.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £90.00 | £88.00 | £79.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £62.50 | £54.00 | £50.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +15.74% | +8.00% | +25.00% |
NFS Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.
NFS Daily Rate Trend
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 18 October 2026.
NFS Hourly Rate Trend
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NFS.
NFS Top 14 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 18 October 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 | -109 | 40 | £465 | -28.46% | 24 |
| UK excluding London | -87 | 36 | £466 | -28.27% | 15 |
| London | -88 | 12 | £483 | -25.77% | 11 |
| North of England | -47 | 10 | £458 | - | 1 |
| Work from Home | -75 | 9 | £500 | -23.08% | 5 |
| East of England | - | 8 | £513 | - | 4 |
| Scotland | - | 7 | £484 | - | 3 |
| Midlands | -41 | 6 | £438 | - | |
| Yorkshire | -27 | 5 | £519 | - | 1 |
| North West | - | 5 | £450 | - | |
| West Midlands | -50 | 4 | £488 | - | |
| South West | - | 4 | - | - | 1 |
| Wales | - | 1 | £490 | - | |
| East Midlands | - | 1 | £205 | - |
NFS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
System Software
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VMware Infrastructure | 39.6% | 21 |
| 2 | Active Directory | 26.4% | 14 |
| 3 | GPFS | 22.6% | 12 |
| 3 | Virtual Machines | 22.6% | 12 |
| 5 | Hyper-V | 17.0% | 9 |
| 6 | Docker | 15.1% | 8 |
| 6 | VMware ESXi | 15.1% | 8 |
| 8 | vSphere | 13.2% | 7 |
| 9 | KVM | 7.5% | 4 |
| 10 | Firmware | 5.7% | 3 |
| 10 | Veritas Volume Manager | 5.7% | 3 |
| 12 | Ceph | 3.8% | 2 |
| 12 | Time Sharing Option | 3.8% | 2 |
| 14 | EMC RecoverPoint | 1.9% | 1 |
| 14 | etcd | 1.9% | 1 |
| 14 | Oracle RAC | 1.9% | 1 |
| 14 | Postfix | 1.9% | 1 |
| 14 | Samba | 1.9% | 1 |
| 14 | Sendmail | 1.9% | 1 |
| 14 | Slurm Workload Manager | 1.9% | 1 |