Fibre Channel Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Fibre Channel (FC)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Fibre Channel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.97% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 97 65 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.43% 21.24% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 37 28
10th Percentile £369 £209 £235
25th Percentile £458 £220 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £338 £478
Median % change year-on-year +54.59% -29.32% -9.05%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £625
90th Percentile £700 £696 £658
South Yorkshire median daily rate £522 £419 £430
% change year-on-year +24.60% -2.62% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 -

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Fibre Channel job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in Sheffield

Fibre Channel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CICS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 7 (100.00%) NAS
1 7 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) FCoE
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Replication
2 6 (85.71%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) MVS
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) High Availability
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (71.43%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
3 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) NFS
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) KVM
2 1 (14.29%) SRDF
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) EMC
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
1 6 (85.71%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Pure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) VMware