NFS Jobs in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring NFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NFS over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 801 838
Rank change year-on-year +123 +37 +294
Permanent jobs citing NFS 23 42 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.044% 0.046% 0.035%
As % of the System Software category 0.37% 0.41% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 13 24 27
10th Percentile - £33,750 £46,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £56,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -40.28% +63.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £105,875 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% -40.28% +63.64%

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 6,216 10,298 12,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.82% 11.33% 15.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,637 8,026 8,810
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,764
25th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% -

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in England

NFS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NFS in England.

Salary trend for NFS in England

NFS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing NFS in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for NFS in England

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 10 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +72 11 £49,500 -3.41% 4
London +84 8 £75,000 -11.76% 10
North of England +37 4 £62,500 -
Yorkshire - 4 £62,500 -
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.70%) Confluence
1 2 (8.70%) Tomcat
1 2 (8.70%) WebSphere
1 2 (8.70%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) GitHub
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Firewall
2 6 (26.09%) DNS
2 6 (26.09%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (26.09%) LAN
2 6 (26.09%) WAN
3 5 (21.74%) DHCP
3 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
4 4 (17.39%) InfiniBand
5 3 (13.04%) iSCSI
5 3 (13.04%) VPN
6 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (8.70%) FCoE
6 2 (8.70%) Multicast
6 2 (8.70%) NAS
6 2 (8.70%) SAN
7 1 (4.35%) SMTP
7 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Administrator
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (21.74%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 5 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (21.74%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (17.39%) Junior Systems Administrator
5 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) LDAP
1 2 (8.70%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
1 4 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (95.65%) Linux
2 13 (56.52%) Windows
3 8 (34.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (21.74%) SUSE
4 5 (21.74%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (8.70%) Solaris
7 1 (4.35%) Unix
7 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) High Availability
4 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) ITIL
4 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Low Latency
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Project Planning
6 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
6 3 (13.04%) Data Management
7 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) Perl
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) JCL
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) LPIC
2 3 (13.04%) MCSE
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (13.04%) RHCE
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) CCNP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) VCAP
4 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) vSphere
3 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.04%) GPFS
3 3 (13.04%) Lustre
4 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.70%) KVM
4 2 (8.70%) SRDF
4 2 (8.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (8.70%) Xen
5 1 (4.35%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (4.35%) vCloud
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (47.83%) Ansible
3 8 (34.78%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Puppet
5 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) VMware
2 10 (43.48%) Cisco
3 8 (34.78%) Commvault
4 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
5 5 (21.74%) SAP
6 4 (17.39%) Pure Storage
6 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
7 3 (13.04%) NetApp
8 2 (8.70%) EMC
8 2 (8.70%) F5
8 2 (8.70%) Google
8 2 (8.70%) Oracle
9 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
9 1 (4.35%) Brocade
9 1 (4.35%) Dell
9 1 (4.35%) IBM