The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 444 389 386
Rank change year-on-year
-55 -3
Contract jobs citing Brocade 88 158 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.203% 0.298% 0.348%
As % of the Vendors category 0.435% 0.645% 0.745%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 101 109
Average daily rate £305 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.75% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £236 £369 £375
% change year-on-year
-35.93% -1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
- +40.62%
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20241 24494 26701
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.78% 46.25% 46.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11110 12869 13881
Average daily rate £400 £395 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.26% -4.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1142 1229 1552
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -4.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.37 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
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Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Brocade Hourly Rate Trend

Brocade
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Brocade within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -13 44 £425 +0.59% 12
North West +24 12 £203 -46.00%
South East +16 10 £475 +35.71% 7
East of England -2 8 £255 -20.31% 4
Yorkshire +7 6 - - 1
South West +24 4 £225 -45.12% 1
West Midlands +5 1 £175 -51.72%
East Midlands -1 1 - -
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Brocade
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 152 (76.77%) SAN
2 95 (47.98%) HP
3 86 (43.43%) Cisco
3 86 (43.43%) VMware
4 84 (42.42%) Windows
5 65 (32.83%) EMC
6 60 (30.30%) IBM
7 57 (28.79%) VMware Infrastructure
8 49 (24.75%) NetApp
8 49 (24.75%) Windows Server 2003
9 46 (23.23%) Microsoft
10 45 (22.73%) Active Directory
11 44 (22.22%) NAS
12 43 (21.72%) UNIX
12 43 (21.72%) VMware ESX
13 36 (18.18%) ITIL
14 33 (16.67%) Linux
14 33 (16.67%) Oracle
15 32 (16.16%) Windows Server 2008
16 31 (15.66%) Firewall
17 30 (15.15%) Security Cleared
17 30 (15.15%) iSCSI
17 30 (15.15%) vSphere
18 29 (14.65%) Replication
19 28 (14.14%) Citrix
20 26 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
20 26 (13.13%) AIX
20 26 (13.13%) Migration
21 24 (12.12%) LAN
22 21 (10.61%) DNS

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 13 (6.566%) Middleware
2 6 (3.030%) .NET
2 6 (3.030%) XML
3 5 (2.525%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.010%) ADSI
4 2 (1.010%) COM
5 1 (0.505%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.505%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.081%) MS Exchange
2 14 (7.071%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (5.556%) IIS
4 10 (5.051%) Exchange Server 2007
5 7 (3.535%) Exchange Server 2003
5 7 (3.535%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 5 (2.525%) SharePoint
8 4 (2.020%) WebLogic
8 4 (2.020%) CICS
9 3 (1.515%) Live Communications Server
10 1 (0.505%) Apache
10 1 (0.505%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.505%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 12 (6.061%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.030%) MS Office
3 2 (1.010%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.505%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.535%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 152 (76.77%) SAN
2 44 (22.22%) NAS
3 31 (15.66%) Firewall
4 30 (15.15%) iSCSI
5 24 (12.12%) LAN
6 21 (10.61%) DNS
7 20 (10.10%) WAN
8 18 (9.091%) Wireless
8 18 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
9 16 (8.081%) TCP/IP
10 13 (6.566%) VoIP
11 12 (6.061%) Internet
12 10 (5.051%) DHCP
12 10 (5.051%) MPLS
12 10 (5.051%) OSPF
13 9 (4.545%) SNMP
14 8 (4.040%) WAAS
14 8 (4.040%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (4.040%) BGP
15 7 (3.535%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.061%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.040%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (4.040%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (3.535%) Oracle BI EE
3 7 (3.535%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (3.535%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (2.020%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.515%) DB2
6 1 (0.505%) MySQL
6 1 (0.505%) Data Mining
General
1 20 (10.10%) Banking
2 14 (7.071%) Finance
3 9 (4.545%) Telecoms
4 7 (3.535%) Marketing
5 3 (1.515%) Investment Banking
5 3 (1.515%) Retail
6 2 (1.010%) Legal
7 1 (0.505%) Games
Job Titles
1 35 (17.68%) Consultant
2 31 (15.66%) Storage Consultant
2 31 (15.66%) Storage Engineer
3 24 (12.12%) Administrator
4 21 (10.61%) Architect
5 17 (8.586%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (8.081%) Network Engineer
7 15 (7.576%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 14 (7.071%) Storage Administrator
9 11 (5.556%) Migration Engineer
10 10 (5.051%) Infrastructure Architect
11 9 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.545%) AIX Engineer
12 8 (4.040%) Designer
12 8 (4.040%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (4.040%) Senior Storage Engineer
13 7 (3.535%) Storage Specialist
14 6 (3.030%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 6 (3.030%) Network Architect
15 5 (2.525%) Sales Manager
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.65%) Replication
2 14 (7.071%) Symmetrix DMX
2 14 (7.071%) CLARiiON
3 10 (5.051%) iSeries
4 9 (4.545%) Symmetrix
4 9 (4.545%) Celerra
5 7 (3.535%) Blackberry
5 7 (3.535%) Clustering
6 6 (3.030%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (3.030%) Firmware
7 5 (2.525%) HACMP
7 5 (2.525%) EMC Centera
8 4 (2.020%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.020%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.020%) VSAM
8 4 (2.020%) PKI
9 3 (1.515%) NHS
9 3 (1.515%) Online Banking
9 3 (1.515%) IBM Mainframe
9 3 (1.515%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 84 (42.42%) Windows
2 49 (24.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 43 (21.72%) UNIX
4 33 (16.67%) Linux
5 32 (16.16%) Windows Server 2008
6 26 (13.13%) AIX
7 10 (5.051%) HPUX
8 7 (3.535%) Windows XP
8 7 (3.535%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (3.030%) Solaris
10 3 (1.515%) Windows 2000 Server
10 3 (1.515%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.010%) Windows 8
11 2 (1.010%) CentOS
11 2 (1.010%) SUSE
11 2 (1.010%) Tru64
12 1 (0.505%) zOS
12 1 (0.505%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.505%) Debian
12 1 (0.505%) Slackware
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (18.18%) ITIL
2 26 (13.13%) Migration
3 14 (7.071%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (5.051%) Change Management
6 9 (4.545%) Data Management
7 8 (4.040%) Change Control
7 8 (4.040%) Capacity Management
7 8 (4.040%) Load Balancing
7 8 (4.040%) Service Management
7 8 (4.040%) Service Delivery
7 8 (4.040%) Configuration Management
8 7 (3.535%) SOA
9 6 (3.030%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (3.030%) B2B
9 6 (3.030%) PRINCE2
9 6 (3.030%) PRINCE
10 5 (2.525%) Network Design
11 4 (2.020%) WAN Optimisation
11 4 (2.020%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.586%) SQL
2 16 (8.081%) Shell Script
3 13 (6.566%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.040%) Perl
5 6 (3.030%) VBScript
6 5 (2.525%) C
7 4 (2.020%) C#
8 3 (1.515%) JCL
9 1 (0.505%) Python
9 1 (0.505%) COBOL
9 1 (0.505%) Java
9 1 (0.505%) VB
9 1 (0.505%) PHP
9 1 (0.505%) Korn
9 1 (0.505%) Ruby
9 1 (0.505%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 30 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (8.081%) CCNP
4 15 (7.576%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.051%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.040%) CCIE
7 6 (3.030%) Degree
7 6 (3.030%) MCSE
7 6 (3.030%) CCNA
7 6 (3.030%) CCDP
7 6 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.525%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.525%) CCIP
9 4 (2.020%) MCSA
10 3 (1.515%) MCP
10 3 (1.515%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.515%) NCDA
11 2 (1.010%) NCIE
11 2 (1.010%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.505%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.556%) QA
2 3 (1.515%) SLA
2 3 (1.515%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.505%) ISO 9002
System Software
1 57 (28.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 43 (21.72%) VMware ESX
4 30 (15.15%) vSphere
5 8 (4.040%) XenDesktop
6 7 (3.535%) Hyper-V
7 6 (3.030%) PowerHA
8 5 (2.525%) XenApp
8 5 (2.525%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 5 (2.525%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.020%) NDS
9 4 (2.020%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 3 (1.515%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (1.515%) SRDF
11 2 (1.010%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (1.010%) XenServer
11 2 (1.010%) Xen
11 2 (1.010%) NFS
12 1 (0.505%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.505%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 19 (9.596%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 18 (9.091%) NetBackup
3 11 (5.556%) EMC NetWorker
4 10 (5.051%) Tivoli
5 8 (4.040%) SCOM
6 6 (3.030%) SCCM
6 6 (3.030%) Backup Exec
7 5 (2.525%) Legato
8 3 (1.515%) MOM
8 3 (1.515%) HP Data Protector
8 3 (1.515%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (1.515%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 3 (1.515%) HP SIM
8 3 (1.515%) Puppet
9 2 (1.010%) PureDisk
9 2 (1.010%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.010%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.505%) Netcool
10 1 (0.505%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.505%) Nagios
Vendors
1 95 (47.98%) HP
2 86 (43.43%) Cisco
2 86 (43.43%) VMware
3 65 (32.83%) EMC
4 60 (30.30%) IBM
5 49 (24.75%) NetApp
6 46 (23.23%) Microsoft
7 33 (16.67%) Oracle
8 28 (14.14%) Citrix
9 19 (9.596%) Hitachi
10 18 (9.091%) Dell
11 14 (7.071%) 3PAR
12 10 (5.051%) Juniper
13 9 (4.545%) Red Hat
13 9 (4.545%) Riverbed
14 7 (3.535%) Sun
14 7 (3.535%) CA
14 7 (3.535%) CheckPoint
14 7 (3.535%) Siebel
14 7 (3.535%) Symantec
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