NFS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Network File System (NFS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +51
Contract jobs citing NFS 14 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.61% - 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 3.39% - 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £291 - £389
25th Percentile £297 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.71%
75th Percentile £383 - £488
90th Percentile £420 - -
England median daily rate £525 £501 £498
% change year-on-year +4.90% +0.60% -5.24%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 413 184 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.01% 10.99% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 130 177
10th Percentile £249 £158 £160
25th Percentile £360 £200 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £582 £608 £550
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - - £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £15.22 £17.69
Median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -23.71%
75th Percentile £58.25 - £19.38
90th Percentile - £27.50 £22.23
England median hourly rate £48.11 £29.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +63.08% -32.71% +75.36%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

NFS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NFS

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing NFS

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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 NFS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 December 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 - 11 £316 -
Birmingham - 1 £425 - 1
NFS
England

NFS
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 13 (92.86%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
1 10 (71.43%) Storage Analyst
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 14 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) Ticket Management
3 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) GPFS
2 13 (92.86%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (92.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) vRealize
2 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) IBM
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
1 14 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 13 (92.86%) Cisco
2 13 (92.86%) VMware