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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 700 859 944
Rank change year-on-year +159 +85 +214
Permanent jobs citing NFS 11 36 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.036% 0.035%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7 20 34
10th Percentile - £33,750 £45,525
25th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -41.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,188 £95,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £84,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +15.29% -11.46% -17.95%

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 6,260 11,974 15,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.28% 12.07% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 9,482 10,092
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £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%

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 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for NFS in the UK

NFS
Top 7 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 16 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 +176 11 £49,000 +15.29% 12
England +127 11 £49,000 -6.67% 17
South East +95 6 £49,000 +22.50% 10
North of England +55 5 £62,500 -
Yorkshire +71 4 £62,500 -
Work from Home +104 3 £62,500 +38.89% 11
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 (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