Bristol Brocade Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Brocade over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Berkshire Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Bristol Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford London Manchester Midlands North West Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.289 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£425	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£456
% change on same period last year	-17.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.74	£31.29
% change on same period last year	-8.14 %
Vendors Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	346	404
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.468 %	0.398 %
Daily rates quoted	102	126
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£302
Average daily rate	£352	£318
% change on same period last year	+10.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.01	£20.91
Average hourly rate	£27.98	£22.73
% change on same period last year	+23.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.96	£24.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Brocade across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Brocade across the Bristol region.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Brocade also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Brocade.

1 7 (100.00 %) SAN 2 4 (57.14 %) Symmetrix 3 3 (42.86 %) CLARiiON 3 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli 3 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 3 (42.86 %) Cisco 3 3 (42.86 %) IBM 3 3 (42.86 %) EMC 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows 4 2 (28.57 %) AIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Brocade also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Brocade. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 7 (100.00 %) SAN	Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Administrator 1 5 (71.43 %) Storage Administrator 2 4 (57.14 %) SAN Administrator 3 2 (28.57 %) Storage Consultant 3 2 (28.57 %) Management Consultant 3 2 (28.57 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 4 (57.14 %) Symmetrix 2 3 (42.86 %) CLARiiON	Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 1 2 (28.57 %) AIX
Systems Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli 1 3 (42.86 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Cisco 1 3 (42.86 %) IBM 1 3 (42.86 %) EMC