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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 807 863 1192
Rank change year-on-year +56 +329 -239
Permanent jobs citing NFS 35 24 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.030% 0.047%
As % of the System Software category 0.37% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 20 24 58
10th Percentile £33,750 £39,478 £45,821
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £75,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +33.33% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £105,750 £98,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.22% -15.65% +15.00%

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 9,464 12,848 30,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 15.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 8,994 15,471
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,293 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for NFS in the UK

NFS
Top 10 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 26 July 2024. 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 +48 35 £53,750 -36.76% 4
UK excluding London -17 22 £45,000 -7.22% 3
Work from Home +58 20 £50,000 -18.03% 1
London +87 13 £85,000 +13.33% 2
South East +18 13 £52,500 -0.94%
West Midlands -2 4 £45,000 -51.35%
South West -6 4 £37,500 -22.68%
Midlands -19 4 £45,000 -51.35%
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 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 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) Jupyter
2 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) GitHub
3 6 (17.14%) Amazon S3
3 6 (17.14%) Cloudflare
4 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.43%) Mimecast
5 4 (11.43%) OneDrive
6 2 (5.71%) Anthos
6 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.86%) AWS
7 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (57.14%) Firewall
2 15 (42.86%) DNS
3 13 (37.14%) DHCP
4 11 (31.43%) VPN
5 10 (28.57%) iSCSI
6 9 (25.71%) 5G
7 8 (22.86%) SAN
8 6 (17.14%) NAS
8 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
9 4 (11.43%) BGP
9 4 (11.43%) NetScaler
9 4 (11.43%) OSPF
9 4 (11.43%) RIP
9 4 (11.43%) VLAN
9 4 (11.43%) WAN
10 2 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (5.71%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (2.86%) FTP
11 1 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) MySQL
3 4 (11.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Git
1 9 (25.71%) Jenkins
1 9 (25.71%) JIRA
1 9 (25.71%) Trac
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Telecoms
3 5 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Research Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Technical Support
5 4 (11.43%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Support
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Junior
6 3 (8.57%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (80.00%) Linux
2 21 (60.00%) Windows
3 19 (54.29%) Windows Server
4 8 (22.86%) Ubuntu
5 4 (11.43%) Debian
6 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (48.57%) DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 9 (25.71%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (25.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (25.71%) Validation
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) Presales
6 6 (17.14%) Storage Management
7 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.29%) Data Management
7 5 (14.29%) Tech Ops
8 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (11.43%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.43%) Proactive Monitoring
8 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
9 3 (8.57%) Load Balancing
9 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
3 11 (31.43%) Bash
4 2 (5.71%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.86%) NCSC
1 1 (2.86%) NIST
1 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) Docker
2 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
3 13 (37.14%) Hyper-V
3 13 (37.14%) pfSense
3 13 (37.14%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (31.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (17.14%) vSphere
6 4 (11.43%) Firmware
6 4 (11.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (11.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (5.71%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Ansible
2 13 (37.14%) Grafana
3 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 9 (25.71%) SCDPM
4 9 (25.71%) ZABBIX
5 5 (14.29%) SCCM
6 4 (11.43%) Nagios
7 2 (5.71%) HAProxy
7 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.86%) cPanel
8 1 (2.86%) Istio
8 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) VMware
2 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (25.71%) Fortinet
3 9 (25.71%) Juniper
3 9 (25.71%) McAfee
3 9 (25.71%) Veeam
4 6 (17.14%) Cisco
5 5 (14.29%) NetApp
6 4 (11.43%) Aruba
6 4 (11.43%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.43%) Citrix
6 4 (11.43%) QNAP
6 4 (11.43%) Synology
6 4 (11.43%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (8.57%) Brocade
7 3 (8.57%) Dell
7 3 (8.57%) F5
7 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.71%) CA
8 2 (5.71%) IBM