Fibre Channel Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 355 400
Rank change year-on-year +34 +45 +83
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 15 31 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 0.93% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 21
10th Percentile £465 £299 £378
25th Percentile £472 £350 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £450 £592
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -23.99% +39.29%
75th Percentile £650 £591 £749
90th Percentile - £722 £788
UK median daily rate £615 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +36.67% -25.00% +41.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,024 3,325 3,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.76% 16.24% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 1,900 2,204
10th Percentile £198 £202 £209
25th Percentile £300 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +5.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £587
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £517
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.16% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 358 318
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.43 -
25th Percentile £15.33 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £46.14 £18.22
Median % change year-on-year -47.59% +153.28% -15.28%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £59.67
90th Percentile £77.41 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £28.71 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.24% +116.22% -33.63%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Fibre Channel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in the UK excluding London

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
South East +44 9 £615 +58.71% 4
East of England - 5 £467 -
Scotland +8 1 £472 -31.89%
Fibre Channel
UK

Fibre Channel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) Nutanix
2 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) SAN
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 3 (20.00%) DHCP
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) BGP
4 2 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (13.33%) IPv6
4 2 (13.33%) OSPF
4 2 (13.33%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (13.33%) TACACS
4 2 (13.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Architect
4 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Brocade Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) YAML
2 1 (6.67%) Flash
2 1 (6.67%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
1 4 (26.67%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (13.33%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Service
4 4 (26.67%) Edge Virtualization
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (26.67%) Proactive Management
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Runbook
5 3 (20.00%) Security Patching
6 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) MCSE
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (26.67%) VCP5
2 4 (26.67%) VCP6
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (20.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) vSphere
3 5 (33.33%) Docker
3 5 (33.33%) NFS
4 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 4 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (26.67%) VMware NSX
5 3 (20.00%) DFS Replication
6 2 (13.33%) Ceph
7 1 (6.67%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (26.67%) Podman
2 2 (13.33%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) VMware
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) NetApp
4 4 (26.67%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (26.67%) Splunk
4 4 (26.67%) Veeam
5 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (13.33%) Brocade
6 2 (13.33%) Cisco
6 2 (13.33%) Dell
7 1 (6.67%) EMC
7 1 (6.67%) Google
7 1 (6.67%) IBM
7 1 (6.67%) ICL
7 1 (6.67%) Sybase
7 1 (6.67%) Veritas