Fibre Channel Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Fibre Channel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fibre Channel over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 404 487
Rank change year-on-year +40 +83 -69
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 32 43 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.18% 0.082%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.96% 1.23% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 22
10th Percentile £299 £378 £328
25th Percentile £350 £456 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £592 £425
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +39.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £749 £459
90th Percentile £722 £788 £545
UK median daily rate £469 £596 £425
% change year-on-year -21.35% +40.24% +3.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Fibre Channel is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Fibre Channel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +47 16 £575 +57.53% 3
South East +24 9 £388 -47.10% 2
East Midlands - 9 £575 - 1
West Midlands +25 7 £300 -17.81% 2
Scotland +19 6 £693 +32.00%
North of England +29 1 £250 -35.48% 2
Yorkshire +19 1 £250 -35.48% 2
Fibre Channel
UK

Fibre Channel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.75%) SAS
3 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.25%) IIS
4 2 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (84.38%) SAN
2 13 (40.63%) iSCSI
3 10 (31.25%) DNS
4 8 (25.00%) Firewall
4 8 (25.00%) VPN
5 6 (18.75%) DHCP
5 6 (18.75%) LAN
5 6 (18.75%) NAS
5 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
6 5 (15.63%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (15.63%) WAN
7 4 (12.50%) SSL
7 4 (12.50%) VLAN
7 4 (12.50%) VoIP
8 3 (9.38%) Wireless
9 2 (6.25%) Network Security
10 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (3.13%) MPLS
10 1 (3.13%) Multicast
10 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) DB2
2 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Administrator
4 5 (15.63%) Server Administrator
4 5 (15.63%) VMWare Administrator
5 4 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Unix Administrator
7 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Unix Administrator
7 2 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Flash
1 6 (18.75%) POSIX
2 2 (6.25%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) HP Storage
2 5 (15.63%) NVMe
2 5 (15.63%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Client/Server
3 4 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (6.25%) Replication
6 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Linux
2 24 (75.00%) Windows
3 14 (43.75%) Windows Server
4 11 (34.38%) Unix
5 10 (31.25%) Solaris
6 9 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (25.00%) AIX
8 6 (18.75%) Ubuntu
9 4 (12.50%) CentOS
9 4 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (6.25%) VMS
11 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
11 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Storage Management
2 9 (28.13%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 8 (25.00%) ITIL
4 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (21.88%) Project Delivery
5 6 (18.75%) Change Management
5 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
5 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (18.75%) SDLC
5 6 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (15.63%) Capacity Management
6 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (15.63%) High Availability
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
6 5 (15.63%) Observability
6 5 (15.63%) Preventative Maintenance
6 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
6 5 (15.63%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) Bash
4 7 (21.88%) Perl
4 7 (21.88%) Python
5 6 (18.75%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) AWK
6 2 (6.25%) Bourne shell
6 2 (6.25%) Korn
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) MCSE
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (12.50%) CCNA
4 4 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.25%) RHCE
6 2 (6.25%) RHCSA
7 1 (3.13%) CCIE
7 1 (3.13%) CCNP
7 1 (3.13%) MCSA
7 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) vSphere
2 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (18.75%) NFS
3 6 (18.75%) VMware NSX
4 5 (15.63%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (15.63%) VMware Server
5 4 (12.50%) Docker
5 4 (12.50%) Firmware
5 4 (12.50%) GPFS
6 1 (3.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 6 (18.75%) HP Data Protector
3 5 (15.63%) vCenter Server
4 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (12.50%) SCCM
4 4 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 3 (9.38%) Ansible
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (6.25%) yum
7 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.13%) Terraform
7 1 (3.13%) VxRail
7 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) EMC
2 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 13 (40.63%) VMware
4 12 (37.50%) Brocade
5 10 (31.25%) Cisco
6 6 (18.75%) HP
6 6 (18.75%) Oracle
6 6 (18.75%) Symantec
6 6 (18.75%) Veritas
7 4 (12.50%) Google
7 4 (12.50%) IBM
7 4 (12.50%) NetApp
7 4 (12.50%) Sybase
8 2 (6.25%) Aruba
8 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.25%) ProCurve
8 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
8 2 (6.25%) Synology
8 2 (6.25%) Veeam
8 2 (6.25%) Zerto