The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Brocade over the 3 months to 24 May 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Brocade
Rank 189 196 218
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +22
Contract jobs citing Brocade 14 22 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.219% 0.280% 0.276%
As % of the Vendors category 0.484% 0.663% 0.655%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 6
Average daily rate £450 £450 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £361 £411 £394
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £483 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £388
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
- +40.62%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2893 3319 4124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.35% 42.20% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2051 2268 2847
Average daily rate £431 £425 £489
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.47% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 101 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Brocade
London

Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Brocade Jobs Demand Trend

Brocade
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Brocade across the City of London region.

City of London Brocade Daily Rate Trend

Brocade
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Brocade across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Brocade Daily Rate Histogram

Brocade
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Brocade across the City of London region.

City of London Brocade Hourly Rate Trend

Brocade
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 20 (80.00%) SAN
2 11 (44.00%) Cisco
3 8 (32.00%) IBM
3 8 (32.00%) HP
4 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) NetApp
5 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
6 5 (20.00%) VMware
6 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (20.00%) EMC
6 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (20.00%) Windows
7 4 (16.00%) ITIL
7 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (16.00%) Citrix
7 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (16.00%) NAS
7 4 (16.00%) Replication
7 4 (16.00%) Clustering
7 4 (16.00%) NetBackup
7 4 (16.00%) CLARiiON
8 3 (12.00%) VMware ESX
8 3 (12.00%) XenApp
8 3 (12.00%) iSeries
8 3 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (12.00%) Symantec
8 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
8 3 (12.00%) Linux
8 3 (12.00%) SQL

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (16.00%) NAS
3 3 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (12.00%) WAN
4 2 (8.000%) VoIP
4 2 (8.000%) DNS
4 2 (8.000%) Firewall
4 2 (8.000%) Internet
4 2 (8.000%) MPLS
4 2 (8.000%) OSPF
4 2 (8.000%) BGP
4 2 (8.000%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.000%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.000%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (4.000%) xDSL
5 1 (4.000%) NetScaler
5 1 (4.000%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (4.000%) FCoE
5 1 (4.000%) EIGRP
5 1 (4.000%) DWDM
General
1 2 (8.000%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) Banking
2 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Consultant
3 6 (24.00%) Architect
3 6 (24.00%) Storage Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Storage Specialist
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.000%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.000%) SAN Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Storage Administrator
6 1 (4.000%) Systems Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.000%) SAN Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) SAN Storage Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) SAN Storage Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Replication
1 4 (16.00%) Clustering
1 4 (16.00%) CLARiiON
2 3 (12.00%) iSeries
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (8.000%) Firmware
3 2 (8.000%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.000%) Symmetrix DMX
3 2 (8.000%) Statistics
3 2 (8.000%) Celerra
3 2 (8.000%) Symmetrix
4 1 (4.000%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.000%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) AIX
3 2 (8.000%) HPUX
3 2 (8.000%) UNIX
3 2 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) ITIL
2 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (8.000%) Change Management
3 2 (8.000%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (8.000%) Information Assurance
3 2 (8.000%) Network Architecture
3 2 (8.000%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (8.000%) Service Management
3 2 (8.000%) Data Management
4 1 (4.000%) Network Design
4 1 (4.000%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.000%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.000%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.000%) Migration
4 1 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) C
3 1 (4.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.000%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.000%) Degree
4 1 (4.000%) MCITP
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.000%) MCSE
4 1 (4.000%) CCIE
4 1 (4.000%) CCNP
4 1 (4.000%) CCDP
4 1 (4.000%) MCP
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (12.00%) XenApp
3 2 (8.000%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.000%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (8.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (8.000%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (4.000%) Backup Exec
3 1 (4.000%) SCCM
3 1 (4.000%) PureDisk
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (4.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (4.000%) HP SIM
3 1 (4.000%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.000%) Legato
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Cisco
2 8 (32.00%) IBM
2 8 (32.00%) HP
3 6 (24.00%) NetApp
4 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 5 (20.00%) EMC
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (16.00%) Citrix
6 3 (12.00%) Symantec
7 2 (8.000%) Red Hat
7 2 (8.000%) Hitachi
7 2 (8.000%) F5
7 2 (8.000%) Veeam
8 1 (4.000%) Polycom
8 1 (4.000%) ION Trading
8 1 (4.000%) Aruba
8 1 (4.000%) Riverbed
8 1 (4.000%) 3PAR
8 1 (4.000%) Dell
8 1 (4.000%) Sun
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