The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Brocade over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Chester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Brocade
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Brocade 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £236 £369 £375
% change year-on-year
-35.93% -1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
- +40.62%
All Vendors
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
70 56 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 54.26% 49.56% 52.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 22
Average daily rate £358 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.37% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £293 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
Average hourly rate £43.70 £14.00 £46.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+212.14% -69.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.67 £14.00 £45.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £21.20 £47.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Brocade
Cheshire

Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Brocade across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Chester Brocade Jobs Demand Trend

Brocade
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Tru64
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
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