NFS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Network File System (NFS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 324 445
Rank change year-on-year +29 +121 +142
Contract jobs citing NFS 9 21 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.77% 1.45% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 19
10th Percentile £325 £300 £406
25th Percentile £337 £309 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 £405 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% -25.00% +5.37%
75th Percentile £459 £430 £585
90th Percentile £513 £459 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £413 £583
% change year-on-year +27.27% -29.25% +2.28%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

NFS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NFS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NFS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NFS.

NFS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NFS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

NFS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing NFS.

NFS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (22.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) FTP
1 5 (55.56%) SMTP
1 5 (55.56%) Telnet
2 2 (22.22%) tcpdump
3 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
3 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (33.33%) Workflow
1 3 (33.33%) Workflow Management
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Server Migrations
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Cost Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) JCL
2 2 (22.22%) REXX
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (11.11%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) Samba
2 2 (22.22%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Microcode
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (22.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (22.22%) yum
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (11.11%) Nagios
4 1 (11.11%) SELinux
4 1 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) vRealize
4 1 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Broadcom
2 2 (22.22%) Brocade
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
2 2 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) IBM