Fibre Channel Contracts in the West Midlands

Fibre Channel (FC)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 139 164
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 -38
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.17% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.76% 1.13% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £353 £351
25th Percentile - £357 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £365 £435
Median % change year-on-year +173.97% -16.09% -
75th Percentile - £374 £463
90th Percentile - £379 -
England median daily rate £469 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -21.88% +41.18% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 394 354 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.44% 14.80% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 219 272
10th Percentile £201 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £504
90th Percentile £688 £700 £617
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 19
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.94
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Fibre Channel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in the West Midlands

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in the West Midlands

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in the West Midlands

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Birmingham +9 2 £1,000 +173.97% 2
Shropshire - 1 - -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Server Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Aruba
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) ProCurve
2 2 (66.67%) Synology
2 2 (66.67%) Veeam
2 2 (66.67%) Zerto