The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Brocade over the 3 months to 18 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 North West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Brocade
Rank 110 129 86
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -43
Contract jobs citing Brocade 12 5 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.498% 0.164% 1.511%
As % of the Vendors category 1.085% 0.319% 3.300%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 36
Average daily rate £203 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £375 £319
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £236 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-37.00% -
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1106 1565 1394
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 45.89% 51.40% 45.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 719 695
Average daily rate £334 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 88 98
Average hourly rate £20.50 £17.76 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.46% -1.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.69 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.17 £30.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
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Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Brocade Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West Brocade Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Brocade Hourly Rate Trend

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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 North West region over the 3 months to 18 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
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Cheshire +2 7 £298 -
Manchester - 3 £200 -
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Brocade
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 26 (89.66%) SAN
2 20 (68.97%) IBM
3 18 (62.07%) UNIX
4 16 (55.17%) AIX
5 15 (51.72%) Oracle
6 14 (48.28%) Windows
7 13 (44.83%) Banking
8 11 (37.93%) Migration
8 11 (37.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 10 (34.48%) Hitachi
9 10 (34.48%) Cisco
9 10 (34.48%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (31.03%) HP
10 9 (31.03%) Shell Script
11 8 (27.59%) ITIL
11 8 (27.59%) Change Control
11 8 (27.59%) QA
12 6 (20.69%) Firewall
12 6 (20.69%) VMware
12 6 (20.69%) PowerHA
12 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (20.69%) NetApp
12 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (17.24%) Tivoli
13 5 (17.24%) Citrix
13 5 (17.24%) HACMP
13 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
13 5 (17.24%) SQL
13 5 (17.24%) LAN
13 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (13.79%) Middleware
1 4 (13.79%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) WebLogic
1 4 (13.79%) CICS
2 2 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (6.897%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Office
2 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 26 (89.66%) SAN
2 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 5 (17.24%) LAN
4 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.34%) SNA
4 3 (10.34%) Internet
5 2 (6.897%) Wireless
5 2 (6.897%) Cisco PIX
5 2 (6.897%) VPN
5 2 (6.897%) WAN
5 2 (6.897%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (6.897%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.448%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.448%) NAS
6 1 (3.448%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.448%) VoIP
6 1 (3.448%) ISDN
6 1 (3.448%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.448%) DWDM
6 1 (3.448%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.34%) DB2
General
1 13 (44.83%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 1 (3.448%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Migration Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) AIX Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Storage Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Storage Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) Network Specialist
6 2 (6.897%) SAN Specialist
6 2 (6.897%) Designer
7 1 (3.448%) Technical Design Leader
7 1 (3.448%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Windows Server Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) Exchange Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) AIX Administrator
7 1 (3.448%) Storage Specialist
7 1 (3.448%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) HACMP
1 5 (17.24%) Replication
2 4 (13.79%) Mainframe
2 4 (13.79%) VSAM
2 4 (13.79%) PKI
3 3 (10.34%) Online Banking
3 3 (10.34%) CLARiiON
3 3 (10.34%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (10.34%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.448%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.448%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) UNIX
2 16 (55.17%) AIX
3 14 (48.28%) Windows
4 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (13.79%) Linux
6 2 (6.897%) Tru64
7 1 (3.448%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.448%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (3.448%) CentOS
7 1 (3.448%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Migration
2 10 (34.48%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (27.59%) Change Control
3 8 (27.59%) ITIL
4 4 (13.79%) ETL
4 4 (13.79%) Change Management
5 3 (10.34%) Service Management
5 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
5 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.897%) Network Design
7 1 (3.448%) Network Planning
7 1 (3.448%) Project Management
7 1 (3.448%) PRINCE
7 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Shell Script
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 4 (13.79%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) JCL
5 1 (3.448%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.34%) CCNP
2 3 (10.34%) CCNA
3 2 (6.897%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.448%) Degree
4 1 (3.448%) MCP
4 1 (3.448%) MCSE
4 1 (3.448%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) PowerHA
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
3 4 (13.79%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 2 (6.897%) vSphere
5 1 (3.448%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (17.24%) Tivoli
3 4 (13.79%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.448%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) IBM
2 15 (51.72%) Oracle
3 10 (34.48%) Cisco
3 10 (34.48%) Hitachi
4 9 (31.03%) HP
5 6 (20.69%) NetApp
5 6 (20.69%) VMware
6 5 (17.24%) Citrix
7 4 (13.79%) CA
7 4 (13.79%) CheckPoint
8 3 (10.34%) EMC
9 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
9 2 (6.897%) NetScout
10 1 (3.448%) Symantec
10 1 (3.448%) Sophos
10 1 (3.448%) Red Hat
10 1 (3.448%) Sun
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