Fibre Channel Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 109 121
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +27
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 4 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.26% 0.31% 0.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 2.27% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £415 £423 £564
25th Percentile £419 £438 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £636
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -25.34% +40.76%
75th Percentile £475 £513 £658
90th Percentile - £528 £722
UK median daily rate £509 £468 £521
% change year-on-year +8.93% -10.27% -0.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 191 220 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.59% 13.70% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 130 175
10th Percentile £204 £149 £221
25th Percentile £308 £313 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -22.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £637
90th Percentile £675 £619 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -3.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 26
10th Percentile - £20.50 £16.38
25th Percentile - £21.00 £23.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £22.88 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +227.87% -61.88% +355.93%
75th Percentile - £34.29 £60.75
90th Percentile - £71.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +149.47%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Fibre Channel job vacancy trend in Scotland

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Fibre Channel
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 Fibre Channel within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 January 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 - 3 £438 - 2
Glasgow -2 1 £475 -
Fibre Channel
UK

Fibre Channel
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 (75.00%) Nutanix
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) NVMe
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) BCP
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) NCDA
1 2 (50.00%) VCP6
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (25.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) vMotion
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) vRealize
3 2 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Brocade
2 3 (75.00%) Commvault
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp