The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 72 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Contract jobs citing Brocade 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.271% 0.115% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.604% 0.234% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £388
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -3.22%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
331 428 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 44.79% 49.25% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 248 105
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £445 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 25
Average hourly rate £33.00 £14.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+123.72% -15.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.40 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £24.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Brocade
West Yorkshire

Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Brocade Daily Rate Trend

Brocade
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) PureDisk
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Syncsort
3 1 (33.33%) XenServer
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) SSH
2 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) XenServer
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) PureDisk
2 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Syncsort
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle