Hybrid/Remote GPFS Job Trends

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GPFS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 419 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Permanent jobs citing GPFS 1 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.004% 0.037% -
As % of the System Software category 0.053% 0.30% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43,993 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,905 - -
75th Percentile £45,816 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,452 - £53,818
% change year-on-year - - -17.20%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

GPFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,897 1,991 2,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.93% 12.27% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 1,114 1,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -3.60% -7.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,425 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% -3.64%

GPFS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GPFS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

GPFS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GPFS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GPFS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GPFS

GPFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SEO Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Parallel Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Product Breakdown Structure
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Lustre
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft