Fibre Channel Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Fibre Channel (FC)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Fibre Channel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.071% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 92 123 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.56% 11.95% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 84 141
10th Percentile £182 £193 £268
25th Percentile £397 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.05% -13.50%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £584
90th Percentile £679 £650 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £455 £495
% change year-on-year +9.89% -8.08% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £18.10 - £14.29
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.42%
75th Percentile £19.75 - £50.00
90th Percentile £19.90 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £24.67 £26.00
% change year-on-year +69.99% -5.11% +7.87%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Fibre Channel job vacancy trend in Manchester

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Fibre Channel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Fibre Channel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel
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%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (100.00%) Commvault
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Isilon
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam