The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Brocade products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Brocade over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Brocade
Rank 104 115 90
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -25
Contract jobs citing Brocade 7 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.367% 0.044% 0.392%
As % of the Vendors category 0.796% 0.095% 0.970%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £388 - £400
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
879 1055 722
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 46.09% 46.19% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 529 296
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 71 73
Average hourly rate £13.71 £15.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.54% -22.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £35.00 £38.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Brocade
England

Brocade
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Brocade Daily Rate Trend

Brocade
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Brocade Hourly 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
West Yorkshire +6 4 £388 -
South Yorkshire - 3 - -
Brocade
England

Brocade
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 (63.64%) HP
1 7 (63.64%) SAN
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Cisco
3 4 (36.36%) 3PAR
4 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) VMware
4 3 (27.27%) NetApp
5 2 (18.18%) IBM
5 2 (18.18%) HPUX
5 2 (18.18%) Linux
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (18.18%) UNIX
6 1 (9.091%) F5
6 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (9.091%) iSCSI
6 1 (9.091%) CentOS
6 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.091%) Syncsort
6 1 (9.091%) NAS
6 1 (9.091%) XenServer
6 1 (9.091%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (9.091%) vSphere
6 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (9.091%) PureDisk
6 1 (9.091%) SSH
6 1 (9.091%) BIG-IP
6 1 (9.091%) Symmetrix
6 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity

Brocade
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Visio
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) SAN
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (9.091%) iSCSI
2 1 (9.091%) NAS
2 1 (9.091%) SSH
2 1 (9.091%) BIG-IP
2 1 (9.091%) SMTP
2 1 (9.091%) DHCP
2 1 (9.091%) FTP
2 1 (9.091%) HTTP
2 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Storage Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Designer
3 1 (9.091%) HP Storage Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Symmetrix DMX
1 1 (9.091%) Symmetrix
1 1 (9.091%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) HPUX
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) CentOS
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
1 1 (9.091%) ITIL
1 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) C
1 1 (9.091%) PHP
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) MCSE
2 1 (9.091%) MCP
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) XenServer
1 1 (9.091%) vSphere
1 1 (9.091%) NFS
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) HP
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) 3PAR
3 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) NetApp
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
5 1 (9.091%) F5
5 1 (9.091%) Syncsort
5 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.091%) EMC
5 1 (9.091%) Citrix
5 1 (9.091%) Juniper
5 1 (9.091%) Red Hat