Brocade Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Brocade
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 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
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 117 133
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +17
Contract jobs citing Brocade 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.20% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.31% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £430 £415 -
25th Percentile £438 £419 £665
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £693
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -35.06% +51.97%
75th Percentile £475 £494 £722
90th Percentile - £505 -
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -12.24%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 645 652 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 42.46% 40.00% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 383 563
10th Percentile £261 £186 £194
25th Percentile £400 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £597
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 46
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £15.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.36 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.58 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% +20.97% +4.00%
75th Percentile £50.94 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £31.44 £61.13
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £28.41 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.40% -5.30% -0.83%

Brocade
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Brocade job vacancy trend in Scotland

Brocade
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Brocade

Brocade
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Brocade.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Brocade

Brocade
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Brocade within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh - 2 £450 - 2
Glasgow +6 1 £475 +5.56%
Brocade
UK

Brocade
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) NVMe
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) BCP
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) NCDA
1 2 (66.67%) VCP6
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) vMotion
1 3 (100.00%) vRealize
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Commvault
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) VMware