NFS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Network File System (NFS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 736 739
Rank change year-on-year +174 +3 +88
Permanent jobs citing NFS 11 23 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.032% 0.018%
As % of the System Software category 0.28% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 9
10th Percentile - - £44,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £33,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -12.37% -17.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £47,500 £50,250
90th Percentile £68,000 - £61,400
UK median annual salary £49,000 £52,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -41.67% +38.46%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,923 8,812 9,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.04% 12.41% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,534 7,073 5,846
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £66,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the UK excluding London

NFS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NFS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for NFS in the UK excluding London

NFS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing NFS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NFS in the UK excluding London

NFS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +96 6 £49,000 +22.50% 12
North of England +67 5 £62,500 -
Yorkshire +70 4 £62,500 -
North West - 1 - -
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (18.18%) FCoE
2 2 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) Multicast
2 2 (18.18%) NAS
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) DHCP
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (36.36%) Junior
2 4 (36.36%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (36.36%) Junior Systems Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Manager
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) LDAP
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) ModSecurity
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Replication
3 2 (18.18%) Clustering
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) SUSE
2 5 (45.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 2 (18.18%) Solaris
5 1 (9.09%) Unix
5 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) High Availability
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Server Virtualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) JCL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) VCAP
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (45.45%) Docker
3 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (18.18%) KVM
4 2 (18.18%) SRDF
4 2 (18.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (18.18%) Xen
5 1 (9.09%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (9.09%) vCloud
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
4 1 (9.09%) cPanel
4 1 (9.09%) PowerCLI
4 1 (9.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
4 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) SAP
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) NetApp
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) EMC
4 2 (18.18%) F5
4 2 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) Broadcom
5 1 (9.09%) Brocade
5 1 (9.09%) Dell
5 1 (9.09%) IBM