Network File System (NFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 864 892
Rank change year-on-year +175 +28 +294
Permanent jobs citing NFS 22 40 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.036% 0.031%
As % of the System Software category 0.35% 0.33% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 29
10th Percentile - £33,750 £45,037
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -43.06% +38.46%
75th Percentile £70,938 £79,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £103,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.22% -19.17%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,310 12,139 14,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.27% 11.05% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,623 9,285 9,600
10th Percentile £27,800 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,174 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,200 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for NFS in the UK

NFS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NFS over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for NFS in the UK

NFS
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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
England +155 22 £55,000 +7.32% 29
UK excluding London +185 16 £50,000 +11.11% 15
South East +90 11 £49,500 -1.00% 13
Work from Home +127 6 £62,500 +38.89% 6
London +96 6 £75,000 -9.09% 16
North of England +82 5 £62,500 -
Yorkshire +67 4 £62,500 -
North West - 1 - -

NFS
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
1 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 2 (9.09%) WebSphere
1 2 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) DNS
3 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 5 (22.73%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (22.73%) LAN
3 5 (22.73%) WAN
4 4 (18.18%) InfiniBand
4 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 3 (13.64%) iSCSI
5 3 (13.64%) VPN
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (9.09%) FCoE
6 2 (9.09%) Multicast
6 2 (9.09%) NAS
6 2 (9.09%) SAN
7 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (4.55%) SMTP
7 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Administrator
1 6 (27.27%) Cisco Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (22.73%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Junior
3 4 (18.18%) Junior Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) Junior Systems Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Backup Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) LDAP
1 2 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (4.55%) ModSecurity
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Replication
3 2 (9.09%) Clustering
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Linux
2 12 (54.55%) Windows
3 6 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (22.73%) SUSE
4 5 (22.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (9.09%) Solaris
8 1 (4.55%) Unix
8 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) High Availability
4 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) Low Latency
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Project Planning
4 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) Data Management
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (9.09%) Migration
6 2 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) JCL
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.64%) LPIC
2 3 (13.64%) MCSE
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (13.64%) RHCE
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) CCNA
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) VCAP
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NCSC
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (22.73%) Docker
3 4 (18.18%) vSphere
4 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
4 3 (13.64%) GPFS
4 3 (13.64%) Lustre
5 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
5 2 (9.09%) KVM
5 2 (9.09%) SRDF
5 2 (9.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (9.09%) Xen
6 1 (4.55%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (4.55%) vCloud
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Ansible
3 6 (27.27%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) cPanel
5 1 (4.55%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Cisco
3 6 (27.27%) Commvault
3 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 5 (22.73%) SAP
5 3 (13.64%) NetApp
5 3 (13.64%) Pure Storage
5 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.09%) EMC
6 2 (9.09%) F5
6 2 (9.09%) Google
6 2 (9.09%) Oracle
7 1 (4.55%) Broadcom
7 1 (4.55%) Brocade
7 1 (4.55%) Dell
7 1 (4.55%) IBM