The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

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 431 427 378
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -49
Contract jobs citing Brocade 98 157 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.211% 0.269% 0.349%
As % of the Vendors category 0.449% 0.580% 0.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 92 102
Average daily rate £360 £405 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +1.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £320 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £388
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21803 27081 28409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11623 13840 14202
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £235 £250
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 1174 1312 1605
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.22 £11.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Brocade Daily Rate Trend

Brocade
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Brocade within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Brocade Hourly Rate Trend

Brocade
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England -16 85 £350 -14.63%
London +19 46 £365 -18.88%
City of London +7 14 £450 -
North West +21 12 £228 -39.33%
Scotland -3 12 £375 -3.84%
South East +3 11 £345 -1.42%
Yorkshire +9 8 £388 -
West Yorkshire +7 5 £388 -
Edinburgh +6 5 £388 -1.89%
Manchester - 5 £175 -
Milton Keynes - 4 - -
Buckinghamshire - 4 - -
Berkshire +10 3 £325 -3.70%
Cheshire 0 3 £180 -
East Midlands -1 3 - -
Livingston - 3 £380 -
Sheffield - 3 - -
South Yorkshire - 3 - -
West Lothian - 3 £380 -
Surrey +9 2 £475 +33.80%
Cambridgeshire +8 2 - -
Cambridge +8 2 - -
Leeds -6 2 - -
Hampshire -8 2 £365 -14.21%
East of England -9 2 - -
Maidenhead - 2 £325 -
Liverpool - 2 - -
Glasgow - 2 £365 -
Chesterfield - 2 - -
Bradford - 2 - -

Brocade
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 164 (76.64%) SAN
2 96 (44.86%) HP
3 94 (43.93%) Windows
4 92 (42.99%) VMware
5 90 (42.06%) Cisco
6 75 (35.05%) EMC
7 61 (28.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 55 (25.70%) VMware Infrastructure
9 53 (24.77%) NetApp
9 53 (24.77%) IBM
10 50 (23.36%) Active Directory
11 48 (22.43%) Microsoft
11 48 (22.43%) NAS
12 43 (20.09%) VMware ESX
13 41 (19.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 39 (18.22%) Linux
15 38 (17.76%) Security Cleared
16 35 (16.36%) ITIL
17 34 (15.89%) UNIX
17 34 (15.89%) vSphere
18 31 (14.49%) iSCSI
18 31 (14.49%) Firewall
19 28 (13.08%) Replication
20 26 (12.15%) NetBackup
20 26 (12.15%) Oracle
20 26 (12.15%) Fibre Channel
21 25 (11.68%) LAN
21 25 (11.68%) Citrix
22 22 (10.28%) Migration
23 21 (9.813%) AIX

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 11 (5.140%) Middleware
2 8 (3.738%) XML
3 6 (2.804%) .NET
4 5 (2.336%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.869%) ADSI
6 2 (0.935%) COM
7 1 (0.467%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.467%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 17 (7.944%) MS Exchange
2 15 (7.009%) Exchange Server 2010
3 13 (6.075%) IIS
4 11 (5.140%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (2.804%) Exchange Server 2003
6 5 (2.336%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 5 (2.336%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (1.869%) CICS
7 4 (1.869%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.869%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.402%) Live Communications Server
9 1 (0.467%) Apache
9 1 (0.467%) Lotus Domino
9 1 (0.467%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.467%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (4.673%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.336%) MS Office
3 2 (0.935%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.935%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.336%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 164 (76.64%) SAN
2 48 (22.43%) NAS
3 31 (14.49%) iSCSI
3 31 (14.49%) Firewall
4 26 (12.15%) Fibre Channel
5 25 (11.68%) LAN
6 20 (9.346%) WAN
6 20 (9.346%) DNS
7 13 (6.075%) Wireless
7 13 (6.075%) Internet
7 13 (6.075%) TCP/IP
8 10 (4.673%) VPN
9 9 (4.206%) VoIP
9 9 (4.206%) MPLS
10 8 (3.738%) DHCP
10 8 (3.738%) HTTP
11 7 (3.271%) SNMP
11 7 (3.271%) OSPF
11 7 (3.271%) WAAS
11 7 (3.271%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.542%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.206%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (4.206%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (2.336%) Oracle BI EE
3 5 (2.336%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (2.336%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (1.869%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.402%) DB2
6 1 (0.467%) MySQL
6 1 (0.467%) Data Mining
General
1 18 (8.411%) Finance
2 14 (6.542%) Banking
3 7 (3.271%) Marketing
4 6 (2.804%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.869%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.402%) Retail
6 3 (1.402%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.935%) Dutch Language
7 2 (0.935%) French Language
Job Titles
1 42 (19.63%) Storage Engineer
2 31 (14.49%) Consultant
3 28 (13.08%) Storage Consultant
4 24 (11.21%) Administrator
4 24 (11.21%) Architect
5 23 (10.75%) Systems Engineer
6 17 (7.944%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 13 (6.075%) Storage Administrator
8 12 (5.607%) Storage Specialist
9 10 (4.673%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.738%) Designer
10 8 (3.738%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.738%) Senior Storage Engineer
10 8 (3.738%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (3.271%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.804%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 6 (2.804%) Network Architect
13 5 (2.336%) Network Specialist
13 5 (2.336%) SAN Engineer
13 5 (2.336%) Sales Manager
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.08%) Replication
2 19 (8.879%) Symmetrix DMX
3 18 (8.411%) CLARiiON
4 11 (5.140%) Celerra
5 10 (4.673%) Symmetrix
6 9 (4.206%) Clustering
7 8 (3.738%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (3.738%) iSeries
8 6 (2.804%) Blackberry
8 6 (2.804%) Firmware
8 6 (2.804%) EMC Centera
8 6 (2.804%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.336%) PKI
9 5 (2.336%) Mainframe
9 5 (2.336%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.869%) IBM Mainframe
10 4 (1.869%) VSAM
11 3 (1.402%) Online Banking
11 3 (1.402%) Data Integration
11 3 (1.402%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 94 (43.93%) Windows
2 61 (28.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 41 (19.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 39 (18.22%) Linux
5 34 (15.89%) UNIX
6 21 (9.813%) AIX
7 15 (7.009%) Solaris
8 14 (6.542%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (5.140%) HPUX
10 7 (3.271%) Windows 7
11 6 (2.804%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.935%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.935%) Windows 2000 Server
12 2 (0.935%) Tru64
12 2 (0.935%) SUSE
13 1 (0.467%) Debian
13 1 (0.467%) Slackware
13 1 (0.467%) zOS
13 1 (0.467%) CentOS
13 1 (0.467%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (16.36%) ITIL
2 22 (10.28%) Migration
3 12 (5.607%) Service Delivery
4 11 (5.140%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (4.673%) Data Management
6 9 (4.206%) Capacity Management
7 8 (3.738%) B2B
7 8 (3.738%) Change Management
8 7 (3.271%) Service Management
8 7 (3.271%) Configuration Management
8 7 (3.271%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (2.804%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (2.804%) PRINCE
9 6 (2.804%) PRINCE2
9 6 (2.804%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (2.804%) Network Design
10 5 (2.336%) SOA
10 5 (2.336%) Load Balancing
11 4 (1.869%) ETL
11 4 (1.869%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.411%) SQL
2 15 (7.009%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.206%) Shell Script
4 8 (3.738%) VBScript
5 6 (2.804%) Perl
6 5 (2.336%) C
7 4 (1.869%) C#
8 3 (1.402%) JCL
9 2 (0.935%) Korn
10 1 (0.467%) Ruby
10 1 (0.467%) Python
10 1 (0.467%) COBOL
10 1 (0.467%) Java
10 1 (0.467%) PHP
10 1 (0.467%) VB
10 1 (0.467%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 38 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.346%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (7.477%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.009%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.140%) CCNP
6 8 (3.738%) CCIE
7 6 (2.804%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.804%) CCNA
7 6 (2.804%) MCSE
8 5 (2.336%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.869%) Degree
9 4 (1.869%) CCDP
9 4 (1.869%) MCSA
9 4 (1.869%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.402%) MCP
10 3 (1.402%) CCIP
10 3 (1.402%) NCDA
11 2 (0.935%) NCIE
11 2 (0.935%) CCA
11 2 (0.935%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.336%) QA
2 4 (1.869%) SLA
3 3 (1.402%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (25.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (23.36%) Active Directory
3 43 (20.09%) VMware ESX
4 34 (15.89%) vSphere
5 6 (2.804%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.804%) XenDesktop
6 5 (2.336%) NDS
6 5 (2.336%) XenApp
6 5 (2.336%) SRDF
6 5 (2.336%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 5 (2.336%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.869%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 4 (1.869%) NFS
8 3 (1.402%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.402%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.935%) PowerHA
9 2 (0.935%) XenServer
9 2 (0.935%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.467%) Xen
10 1 (0.467%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (12.15%) NetBackup
2 14 (6.542%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 13 (6.075%) EMC NetWorker
4 10 (4.673%) Tivoli
5 9 (4.206%) SCCM
6 7 (3.271%) SCOM
7 5 (2.336%) Backup Exec
7 5 (2.336%) Legato
8 3 (1.402%) MOM
8 3 (1.402%) HP Data Protector
8 3 (1.402%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 3 (1.402%) HP SIM
8 3 (1.402%) PureDisk
9 2 (0.935%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.935%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.935%) EMC TimeFinder
10 1 (0.467%) WMI
10 1 (0.467%) EMC Navisphere
10 1 (0.467%) OpenView
10 1 (0.467%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 96 (44.86%) HP
2 92 (42.99%) VMware
3 90 (42.06%) Cisco
4 75 (35.05%) EMC
5 53 (24.77%) NetApp
5 53 (24.77%) IBM
6 48 (22.43%) Microsoft
7 26 (12.15%) Oracle
8 25 (11.68%) Citrix
9 20 (9.346%) Dell
10 17 (7.944%) Hitachi
10 17 (7.944%) Red Hat
11 14 (6.542%) 3PAR
12 11 (5.140%) CheckPoint
12 11 (5.140%) StorageTek
13 10 (4.673%) Symantec
14 9 (4.206%) Sun
15 8 (3.738%) Juniper
16 7 (3.271%) Veritas
16 7 (3.271%) Riverbed
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