Fibre Channel Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Fibre Channel (FC)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Fibre Channel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 2 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.047% - 0.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.51% - 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £426 - £529
25th Percentile £455 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.53%
75th Percentile £555 - £600
90th Percentile £582 - £1,000
England median daily rate £525 £615 £469
% change year-on-year -14.63% +31.20% -23.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 392 208 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.19% 10.90% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 127 294
10th Percentile £197 £162 £200
25th Percentile £309 £249 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £537 £597 £575
90th Percentile £610 £693 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 36
10th Percentile £19.34 £13.30 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.33 £13.81 £13.13
Median hourly rate £61.50 £16.19 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +279.86% +13.45% -31.08%
75th Percentile £74.00 £21.70 £24.35
90th Percentile - £28.13 £28.75
England median hourly rate £42.25 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +45.69% -27.50% +112.54%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Fibre Channel job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in the Midlands

Fibre Channel
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
West Midlands - 2 £506 -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Storage Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SAN Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SAN Storage Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Brocade
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Pure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) VMware