NFS Job Trends

Network File System (NFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring NFS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 698 694
Rank change year-on-year +61 -4 +294
Permanent jobs citing NFS 12 13 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.024% 0.034%
As % of the System Software category 0.28% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 14
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,688 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -0.86% -35.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £104,688 £81,875
90th Percentile - £120,000 £102,125
UK excluding London median annual salary - £53,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -2.27% +14.58%

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 4,260 6,698 8,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.07% 12.50% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,002 4,020 7,040
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £74,066 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +1.05%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NFS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NFS job vacancy trend in the UK

NFS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NFS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NFS

NFS
Top 3 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 15 January 2026. 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
London +70 12 £45,000 -59.09% 3
England +60 12 £45,000 -21.74% 6
Work from Home +67 6 - - 1

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) GitHub
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Dagster
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
1 8 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 8 (66.67%) WAN
2 7 (58.33%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (50.00%) LAN
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (16.67%) MQTT
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
4 2 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (16.67%) RTMP
4 2 (16.67%) VLAN
4 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
5 1 (8.33%) NAS
5 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (16.67%) Metadata
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jaeger
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) MLflow
2 2 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Agriculture
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Linux Scripter
2 6 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) Keycloak
1 2 (16.67%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) IoT
3 2 (16.67%) MPEG
3 2 (16.67%) Robotics
4 1 (8.33%) EMC VNX
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (16.67%) AI
7 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Vision
7 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (16.67%) Edge AI
7 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
7 2 (16.67%) MLOps
7 2 (16.67%) Network Optimisation
7 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Ansible
1 11 (91.67%) Kubernetes
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Argo
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Cisco
2 9 (75.00%) Commvault
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
3 6 (50.00%) Pure Storage
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) MikroTik
5 2 (16.67%) NETGEAR
5 2 (16.67%) Sonatype
5 2 (16.67%) Starlink
5 2 (16.67%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (8.33%) Brocade
6 1 (8.33%) Dell
6 1 (8.33%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (8.33%) EMC
6 1 (8.33%) Hitachi
6 1 (8.33%) NetApp