NFS Contracts

Network File System (NFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 542 608
Rank change year-on-year +27 +66 +169
Contract jobs citing NFS 33 43 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.099% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.86% 0.89% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 38
10th Percentile £350 £281 £377
25th Percentile £482 £300 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £350 £579
Median % change year-on-year +82.14% -39.55% +2.93%
75th Percentile £650 £415 £608
90th Percentile £660 £460 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £378 £550
% change year-on-year +72.19% -31.36% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
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 3,827 4,838 7,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 11.17% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,489 3,334 5,159
10th Percentile £225 £210 £200
25th Percentile £381 £370 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £479
% change year-on-year -1.45% +0.63% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 216 257
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.39 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -55.93% +170.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £58.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.00 £76.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £23.34 £27.50
% change year-on-year +135.11% -15.13% +48.65%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS.

Daily rate trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the UK

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Top 7 Contract 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 6 July 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
England +45 27 £650 +100.00% 23
UK excluding London +54 22 £650 +72.19% 12
South East +59 20 £650 - 7
Work from Home +21 7 £374 +11.98% 8
London +22 4 £650 +116.67% 13
South West +37 1 £475 - 3
Scotland - 1 £472 -

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
1 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) SAS
2 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) GCP
2 4 (12.12%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.06%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) iSCSI
2 14 (42.42%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (27.27%) DNS
4 7 (21.21%) DHCP
5 5 (15.15%) FTP
6 4 (12.12%) SMTP
6 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
6 4 (12.12%) Telnet
7 3 (9.09%) Kerberos
8 2 (6.06%) SAN
9 1 (3.03%) NAS
9 1 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) DB2
2 1 (3.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
1 2 (6.06%) Subversion
1 2 (6.06%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Banking
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Architect
1 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure Architect
2 12 (36.36%) VMware Architect
3 9 (27.27%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) Server Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Database Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) DBA
6 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Informatica Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Support
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) NetApp Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
2 2 (6.06%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) YAML
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Flash
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (3.03%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.12%) Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) CMDB
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) FlexPod
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) NVMe
4 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (57.58%) Windows
2 18 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 16 (48.48%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (36.36%) Linux
5 10 (30.30%) Unix
6 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (6.06%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (6.06%) Solaris
7 2 (6.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Edge Virtualization
1 10 (30.30%) Performance Analysis
2 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 6 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
2 6 (18.18%) High Availability
2 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (12.12%) Workflow
4 3 (9.09%) Agile
4 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 3 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 3 (9.09%) Server Management
4 3 (9.09%) Storage Management
4 3 (9.09%) Workflow Management
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Operational Stability
5 2 (6.06%) Security Hardening
5 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) SQL
2 7 (21.21%) Bash
2 7 (21.21%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.09%) Perl
5 2 (6.06%) AWK
5 2 (6.06%) JCL
5 2 (6.06%) REXX
5 2 (6.06%) sed
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 13 (39.39%) MCSE
2 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 11 (33.33%) VCP5
4 11 (33.33%) VCP6
4 11 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) CISSP
6 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.03%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (3.03%) NCSIE
6 1 (3.03%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (45.45%) vSphere
3 6 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.09%) GPFS
4 3 (9.09%) Samba
5 2 (6.06%) Docker
5 2 (6.06%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (6.06%) Veritas File System
5 2 (6.06%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.03%) Microcode
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.09%) WSUS
4 2 (6.06%) Control-M
4 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.06%) Netcool
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (6.06%) PowerCLI
4 2 (6.06%) QRadar
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (6.06%) Tivoli
4 2 (6.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (6.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (3.03%) Nagios
5 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.03%) SELinux
5 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.03%) SnapMirror
5 1 (3.03%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) VMware
2 15 (45.45%) NetApp
2 15 (45.45%) Splunk
3 13 (39.39%) Microsoft
3 13 (39.39%) Veeam
4 6 (18.18%) IBM
5 5 (15.15%) Oracle
5 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.09%) Brocade
6 3 (9.09%) Google
7 2 (6.06%) BMC
7 2 (6.06%) Broadcom
7 2 (6.06%) CyberArk
7 2 (6.06%) Dell
7 2 (6.06%) Qualys
7 2 (6.06%) SaltStack
8 1 (3.03%) EMC
8 1 (3.03%) Informatica
8 1 (3.03%) Sybase
8 1 (3.03%) Veritas