IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GPFS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GPFS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 905 962
Rank change year-on-year +205 +57 +295
Permanent jobs citing GPFS 2 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 0.032% 0.017% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £43,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £47,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - -22.13% +89.69%
75th Percentile - £51,250 £63,000
90th Percentile - - £64,200
UK excluding London median annual salary - £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -26.92% +102.12%

All System Software Skills
UK

GPFS 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,248 12,009 14,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.19% 11.58% 15.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,604 9,344 9,805
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -9.09% -1.20%
75th Percentile £76,840 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GPFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GPFS in the UK

GPFS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GPFS.

Salary trend for GPFS in the UK

GPFS
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GPFS within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
UK excluding London +183 2 - - 4
England +171 2 - - 15
South East +78 2 - - 2
Work from Home - 2 - - 5

GPFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) InfiniBand
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) LPIC
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Lustre
1 2 (100.00%) NFS