Fibre Channel Contract Job Trends in the North West

Fibre Channel (FC)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 155 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.035% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £473 £435
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.62% -27.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 388 378 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.74% 18.16% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 217 299
10th Percentile £275 £174 £210
25th Percentile £393 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -8.08% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £643 £630 £672
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.37 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.67 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -5.11% +7.87%
75th Percentile £74.26 £32.39 £45.88
90th Percentile - £43.56 £49.18
England median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% -22.22% +133.16%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Fibre Channel job vacancy trend in the North West

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Fibre Channel
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester - 1 £525 -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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