Brocade Contract Job Trends

Brocade
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 October 2025, 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 530 576
Rank change year-on-year -20 +46 +185
Contract jobs citing Brocade 15 33 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.088% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.095% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 34
10th Percentile - £324 £412
25th Percentile £325 £442 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £482
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +11.63% -8.29%
75th Percentile £588 £561 £597
90th Percentile £713 £600 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -26.83% +6.77% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,872 16,792 21,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.71% 44.64% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,786 9,890 13,830
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 574 673
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.44 £19.76
Median hourly rate £24.81 £32.75 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -25.40% +83.61%
75th Percentile £38.29 £64.40 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.43 £30.21 £43.75
% change year-on-year -29.07% -30.96% +113.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Brocade job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Brocade.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Brocade

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Brocade over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Brocade in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Brocade.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Brocade

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Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Brocade within the UK over the 6 months to 16 October 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
England +2 8 £500 -9.09% 83
UK excluding London -26 8 £375 -26.83% 85
Work from Home +21 7 £350 -36.36% 82
London +11 5 £500 -9.09% 36
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 -
South East +6 1 - - 36
Midlands -21 1 £500 +85.19% 6
South West - 1 £675 - 16
West Midlands - 1 £500 -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (6.67%) Firewall
4 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
4 1 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Technology Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Backup Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Storage Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Storage and Backup Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Infoblox Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Network Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) NetBackup Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) EMC VNX
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.67%) HP Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) AIX
4 1 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (46.67%) Change Management
1 7 (46.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 6 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (13.33%) Coaching
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (40.00%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) EMC
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 7 (46.67%) Dell
4 6 (40.00%) Isilon
4 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (13.33%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (13.33%) Hitachi
5 2 (13.33%) Infoblox
5 2 (13.33%) NetApp
6 1 (6.67%) 3PAR
6 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (6.67%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (6.67%) HP
6 1 (6.67%) IBM
6 1 (6.67%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (6.67%) Tufin
6 1 (6.67%) Veritas
6 1 (6.67%) Zscaler