Brocade Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Brocade
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring knowledge or experience of Brocade products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Brocade over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Broadcom Brocade.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Brocade 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.058% - 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile - - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 - £480
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.41%
75th Percentile - - £503
90th Percentile - - £516
North West median daily rate £477 £488 £480
% change year-on-year -2.15% +1.56% +32.41%

All Vendors
Manchester

Brocade falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 625 419 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.96% 47.08% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 287 321
10th Percentile £300 £242 £325
25th Percentile £376 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £598
90th Percentile £650 £673 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 14 40
10th Percentile £22.63 - £11.79
25th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £12.40
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.50 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% +97.60% -40.41%
75th Percentile £76.25 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £62.63 £60.00
North West median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -0.85% +102.37% -57.17%

Brocade
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Brocade relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Brocade job vacancy trend in Manchester

Brocade
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Brocade.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Brocade

Brocade
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Storage Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) SAN Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) SAN Storage Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware