Hybrid/Remote NFS Job Trends

Network File System (NFS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring NFS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 486 510
Rank change year-on-year +80 +24 +324
Permanent jobs citing NFS 10 11 6
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.062% 0.047% 0.024%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% 0.40% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £46,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,750 £85,563
90th Percentile - £87,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -4.17% +4.35%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

NFS 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 1,963 2,735 3,965
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.13% 11.80% 15.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 1,746 3,424
10th Percentile £28,825 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,813 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £78,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -

NFS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NFS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NFS
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing NFS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing NFS

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) LAN
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Linux Scripter
2 6 (60.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Python Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Project Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) LPIC
1 3 (30.00%) MCSE
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (30.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (60.00%) vSphere
2 3 (30.00%) GPFS
2 3 (30.00%) Lustre
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
1 6 (60.00%) Commvault
1 6 (60.00%) Pure Storage
1 6 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp