GPFS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GPFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GPFS 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.40% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £290 - -
25th Percentile £291 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 - -
75th Percentile £315 - -
90th Percentile £316 - -
England median daily rate £544 - £400

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

GPFS 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 378 217 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.82% 11.47% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 151 211
10th Percentile £224 £173 £160
25th Percentile £400 £300 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £490 £418
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% +17.37% +4.38%
75th Percentile £581 £612 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £17.53
25th Percentile £54.75 £31.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.85% +71.05% +0.74%
75th Percentile £58.25 £33.75 £28.19
90th Percentile - - £28.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +84.21%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GPFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

GPFS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GPFS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPFS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Coventry - 7 £303 - 2
GPFS
England

GPFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Storage Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Ticket Management
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) NFS
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 8 (100.00%) VMware