The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Brocade over the 3 months to 20 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 Manchester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Brocade
Rank 69 - 72
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Brocade 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.544% - 0.099%
As % of the Vendors category 1.355% - 0.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £175 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £395
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 -
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
369 659 411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.15% 50.50% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 297 164
Average daily rate £318 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.30% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 45
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £25.00 £18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Brocade
North West

Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Brocade Daily 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Wigan - 1 - -
Brocade
North West

Brocade
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) AIX
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) ITIL
3 5 (71.43%) HP
3 5 (71.43%) Citrix
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 5 (71.43%) IBM
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (57.14%) WebSphere
4 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (57.14%) VSAM
4 4 (57.14%) PKI
4 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (57.14%) Middleware
4 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
4 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
4 4 (57.14%) Tivoli
4 4 (57.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 4 (57.14%) WebLogic
4 4 (57.14%) CICS
4 4 (57.14%) CA
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (57.14%) Middleware
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) WebLogic
1 4 (57.14%) CICS
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) Internet
3 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 3 (42.86%) SNA
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) DB2
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Design Leader
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AIX Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) VSAM
1 4 (57.14%) PKI
1 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
2 3 (42.86%) Online Banking
2 3 (42.86%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (42.86%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (28.57%) CLARiiON
4 1 (14.29%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) AIX
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) JCL
3 1 (14.29%) COBOL
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) MCSA
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Server
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Tivoli
2 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) IBM
2 5 (71.43%) HP
2 5 (71.43%) Citrix
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) CheckPoint
3 4 (57.14%) CA
4 2 (28.57%) EMC
5 1 (14.29%) Hitachi
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft