Brocade Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Brocade
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 22 February 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 157 155
Rank change year-on-year -66 -2 +76
Contract jobs citing Brocade 1 5 36
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.019% 0.15% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 0.042% 0.31% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile - £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +4.65% -16.50%
75th Percentile - £475 £480
90th Percentile - - £482
England median daily rate £625 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +38.89% -6.25% -11.93%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,390 1,634 2,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 45.12% 49.53% 45.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 987 1,385
10th Percentile £251 £241 £226
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £575
90th Percentile £678 £665 £650
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 62 165
10th Percentile £15.20 £19.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £24.18 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +88.02% -37.15%
75th Percentile £57.25 £60.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £27.51
% change year-on-year -23.15% +12.70% -17.27%

Brocade
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Brocade job vacancy trend in the North of England

Brocade
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Brocade.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Brocade

Brocade
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Brocade.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Brocade

Brocade
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Brocade within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 February 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
Yorkshire - 1 £366 - 1
Brocade
England

Brocade
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp