Fibre Channel Contracts in England

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Fibre Channel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fibre Channel over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 511 627
Rank change year-on-year +60 +116 +121
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 17 25 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.067% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% 0.50% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 20
10th Percentile £464 £350 £367
25th Percentile £493 £374 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £469 £613
Median % change year-on-year +31.20% -23.47% +44.12%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £749
90th Percentile - £640 £788
UK median daily rate £615 £540 £596
% change year-on-year +13.89% -9.40% +40.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Fibre Channel falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,193 4,953 6,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.09% 13.35% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 2,988 4,029
10th Percentile £220 £206 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -22.63%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% +110.53% -30.91%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Fibre Channel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in England.

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in England.

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
South East +35 9 £615 +53.75% 2
East of England - 5 £467 -
London +46 3 - -
Fibre Channel
UK

Fibre Channel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) IaaS
1 3 (17.65%) Nutanix
1 3 (17.65%) PaaS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub
2 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) SAN
2 6 (35.29%) iSCSI
3 5 (29.41%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
4 3 (17.65%) DHCP
4 3 (17.65%) VSAN
5 2 (11.76%) BGP
5 2 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (11.76%) FCoE
5 2 (11.76%) IPv6
5 2 (11.76%) OSPF
5 2 (11.76%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (11.76%) TACACS
6 1 (5.88%) NAS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Architect
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) VMware Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
6 1 (5.88%) SAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (23.53%) Linux
5 2 (11.76%) CentOS
6 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
4 4 (23.53%) Edge Virtualization
4 4 (23.53%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (23.53%) Proactive Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Runbook
5 3 (17.65%) Security Patching
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (11.76%) Internal Audit
6 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) MCSE
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (23.53%) VCP5
3 4 (23.53%) VCP6
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (17.65%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 8 (47.06%) vSphere
3 5 (29.41%) NFS
3 5 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (23.53%) Docker
4 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
4 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
5 3 (17.65%) DFS Replication
6 2 (11.76%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (23.53%) Podman
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (5.88%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
4 4 (23.53%) Dell
4 4 (23.53%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (23.53%) NetApp
4 4 (23.53%) Splunk
4 4 (23.53%) Veeam
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco
6 2 (11.76%) F5
6 2 (11.76%) Hitachi
6 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.88%) Brocade
7 1 (5.88%) EMC
7 1 (5.88%) HP
7 1 (5.88%) ICL
7 1 (5.88%) McAfee
7 1 (5.88%) Symantec