NFS Contracts in England

Network File System (NFS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for NFS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NFS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 602 679
Rank change year-on-year +112 +77 -84
Contract jobs citing NFS 47 49 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 1.19% 0.79% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 86
10th Percentile £281 £421 £393
25th Percentile £300 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £583 £563
Median % change year-on-year -32.25% +3.64% +25.00%
75th Percentile £430 £585 £700
90th Percentile £536 £630 £800
UK median daily rate £405 £583 £570
% change year-on-year -30.53% +2.28% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - -

All System Software Skills
England

NFS is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,963 6,230 9,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.89% 12.93% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,773 4,509 7,061
10th Percentile £200 £200 £198
25th Percentile £338 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 221 267
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.52 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.99 £53.20
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing NFS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for NFS in England

NFS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NFS in England.

Daily rate trend for NFS in England

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in England

NFS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NFS in England.

Hourly rate trend for NFS in England

NFS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +107 22 £300 -48.72% 2
North of England +44 19 £415 -1.19%
Yorkshire +31 18 £423 +0.60%
East of England +9 2 £350 -42.86% 3
South East -5 2 - - 3
South West - 1 £688 -
North West - 1 £225 -
NFS
UK

NFS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) GitHub
1 17 (36.17%) PaaS
2 7 (14.89%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.26%) AWS
4 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.13%) IaaS
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) FTP
2 8 (17.02%) DNS
3 6 (12.77%) SSH
3 6 (12.77%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.64%) HTTP
4 5 (10.64%) Internet
5 4 (8.51%) VPN
6 2 (4.26%) DHCP
6 2 (4.26%) InfiniBand
6 2 (4.26%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.13%) Firewall
7 1 (2.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (2.13%) IPsec
7 1 (2.13%) Kerberos
7 1 (2.13%) LAN
7 1 (2.13%) Network Security
7 1 (2.13%) SNMP
7 1 (2.13%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (2.13%) VLAN
7 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.13%) MySQL
2 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (36.17%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) GitLab
3 2 (4.26%) GoCD
4 1 (2.13%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.02%) Electronics
3 8 (17.02%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Manufacturing
3 8 (17.02%) Marketing
3 8 (17.02%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.13%) Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (36.17%) Storage Manager
2 13 (27.66%) Implementation Specialist
3 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Administrator
4 2 (4.26%) IBM Storage Specialist
4 2 (4.26%) Lead
4 2 (4.26%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Linux Support
4 2 (4.26%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Storage Specialist
4 2 (4.26%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) Customer Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.13%) Support Technician
5 1 (2.13%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (40.43%) LDAP
2 16 (34.04%) YAML
3 4 (8.51%) .NET
3 4 (8.51%) JSON
4 2 (4.26%) CSS
5 1 (2.13%) Keycloak
5 1 (2.13%) LAMP
5 1 (2.13%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (2.13%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Data Centre
2 13 (27.66%) Replication
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (89.36%) Linux
2 20 (42.55%) zOS
3 17 (36.17%) Windows
4 15 (31.91%) Unix
5 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Solaris
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Agile
2 20 (42.55%) Storage Management
3 19 (40.43%) Problem Management
4 17 (36.17%) Project Management
5 15 (31.91%) Migration
6 14 (29.79%) Cost Management
6 14 (29.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (29.79%) Software Testing
6 14 (29.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (27.66%) Capacity Management
8 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (17.02%) Digital Marketing
8 8 (17.02%) Programme Management
9 6 (12.77%) DevOps
10 5 (10.64%) Customer Experience
10 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (8.51%) Critical Thinking
11 4 (8.51%) Data Collection
11 4 (8.51%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (44.68%) Python
2 20 (42.55%) JCL
3 16 (34.04%) REXX
4 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.51%) C#
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) Korn
7 2 (4.26%) Perl
7 2 (4.26%) tcsh
8 1 (2.13%) Java
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Degree
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.13%) HNC
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 20 (42.55%) Time Sharing Option
2 16 (34.04%) Active Directory
3 13 (27.66%) HDFS
4 4 (8.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.26%) Ceph
5 2 (4.26%) Docker
5 2 (4.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.13%) iptables
6 1 (2.13%) KVM
6 1 (2.13%) Lustre
6 1 (2.13%) Samba
6 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (42.55%) Ansible
2 19 (40.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Puppet
3 2 (4.26%) systemd
3 2 (4.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) CFEngine
4 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (2.13%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (2.13%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.13%) Mesos
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.13%) SCOM
4 1 (2.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Dell
2 20 (42.55%) Broadcom
2 20 (42.55%) Brocade
2 20 (42.55%) CA
2 20 (42.55%) IBM
3 13 (27.66%) Isilon
4 8 (17.02%) SAP
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.26%) VMware
7 1 (2.13%) BMC
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco
7 1 (2.13%) Citrix
7 1 (2.13%) NVIDIA