NFS Job Trends in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring NFS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 742 612 715
Rank change year-on-year -130 +103 +19
Permanent jobs citing NFS 2 24 33
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.002% 0.056% 0.048%
As % of the System Software category 0.037% 0.45% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 21
10th Percentile - £50,500 £33,750
25th Percentile - £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% -5.74%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - £80,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary - £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +30.43% -5.74%

All System Software Skills
England

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,413 5,334 7,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.48% 12.39% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,010 3,281 4,655
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £53,050
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -10.46% -3.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NFS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

NFS job vacancy trend in England

NFS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NFS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing NFS

NFS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the England region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -60 1 - - 2
London -74 1 - - 16
North West - 1 - - 2
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) APMP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Samba
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp