Hybrid/Remote NFS Contract Job Trends

Network File System (NFS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 304 364
Rank change year-on-year -12 +60 +166
Contract jobs citing NFS 4 16 13
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.14% 0.076%
As % of the System Software category 0.31% 1.23% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £392 £384
25th Percentile £625 £430 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £484 £430
Median % change year-on-year +34.30% +12.56% -4.44%
75th Percentile £675 £531 £589
90th Percentile - £573 £632
UK median daily rate £590 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +18.05% -11.11% +7.14%

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 1,285 1,300 1,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.55% 11.06% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 873 1,371
10th Percentile £325 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £613
90th Percentile £688 £723 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 67
10th Percentile £29.10 £20.44 £17.45
25th Percentile £41.06 £36.31 £21.63
Median hourly rate £65.75 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% +2.50% +5.73%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.75 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.71 £45.88
% change year-on-year +48.70% -37.43% +83.52%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

NFS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

NFS
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NFS

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NFS

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Replication
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (25.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) AWK
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) sed
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) GPFS
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) vRealize
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Salt
2 1 (25.00%) SELinux
2 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) VMware