Fibre Channel Contracts in the South East

Fibre Channel (FC)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Fibre Channel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fibre Channel over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 196 210
Rank change year-on-year +56 +14 +53
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 25 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 0.036% 0.069%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.18% 0.18% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 2 2
10th Percentile £500 £374 £578
25th Percentile £600 £391 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £438 £654
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -33.08% +74.33%
75th Percentile £650 £491 £708
90th Percentile - £511 £733
England median daily rate £615 £538 £588
% change year-on-year +14.42% -8.51% +38.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 598 1,127 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.59% 20.45% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 551 595
10th Percentile £207 £245 £235
25th Percentile £350 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +6.84% +2.25%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £578
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
England median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 131 69
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.63 £15.50
25th Percentile £26.33 £27.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -0.26% +85.48%
75th Percentile £66.33 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £85.65 £77.43
England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +23.08% +30.00%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Fibre Channel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in the South East

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in the South East

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in the South East over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in the South East

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in the South East

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
Hampshire - 14 £650 - 5
Berkshire - 6 £500 -
Thames Valley - 6 £500 -
Kent - 5 £615 -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
1 5 (20.00%) IaaS
1 5 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (64.00%) iSCSI
2 9 (36.00%) DNS
2 9 (36.00%) SAN
3 5 (20.00%) DHCP
3 5 (20.00%) Firewall
4 4 (16.00%) BGP
4 4 (16.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (16.00%) IPv6
4 4 (16.00%) OSPF
4 4 (16.00%) Spanning Tree
4 4 (16.00%) TACACS
4 4 (16.00%) VSAN
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Architect
1 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 14 (56.00%) VMware Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) VMware Support Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) FlexPod
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (76.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (56.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Edge Virtualization
1 11 (44.00%) Performance Analysis
2 6 (24.00%) DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.00%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.00%) Runbook
4 4 (16.00%) Security Patching
5 3 (12.00%) Operational Stability
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (4.00%) Coaching
7 1 (4.00%) Data Migration
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 1 (4.00%) Migration
7 1 (4.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) MCSE
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) DV Cleared
3 12 (48.00%) VCP5
3 12 (48.00%) VCP6
3 12 (48.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (84.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (80.00%) vSphere
3 15 (60.00%) NFS
3 15 (60.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.00%) DFS Replication
5 4 (16.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Argo
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) VMware
2 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (64.00%) NetApp
4 15 (60.00%) Splunk
4 15 (60.00%) Veeam
5 5 (20.00%) Cisco
6 4 (16.00%) Dell
7 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.00%) Commvault