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 6 April 2026, 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
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 516 527
Rank change year-on-year -77 +11 +126
Contract jobs citing Brocade 32 14 76
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.048% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.10% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 36
10th Percentile £366 £371 £344
25th Percentile £427 £374 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £476
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.46% -11.44%
75th Percentile £585 £500 £567
90th Percentile £643 £508 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £472
% change year-on-year +7.14% -11.02% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.10 - -
25th Percentile £64.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £77.70 - -
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 19,528 13,798 18,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.18% 47.19% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,546 8,717 11,698
10th Percentile £313 £293 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 501 1,050
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £12.02
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £14.37
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.60 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.11% -46.40%
75th Percentile £59.73 £61.50 £56.43
90th Percentile £78.60 £80.59 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.66% +23.26% -42.67%

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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 6 April 2026.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Brocade over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Brocade in the UK

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Top 10 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 6 April 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
England -99 19 £580 +17.07% 6
UK excluding London -98 14 £450 +7.14% 4
Work from Home -18 13 £500 +33.69% 2
Yorkshire -50 6 £478 +26.62% 2
London -53 6 £600 +20.00% 2
North of England -75 6 £478 +13.81% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £375 -
Scotland - 3 £463 -
Midlands - 2 £506 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £506 - 1

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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 7 (21.88%) OpenShift
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Nutanix
4 3 (9.38%) Rubrik
5 2 (6.25%) Cohesity
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (84.38%) SAN
2 16 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (28.13%) NAS
4 7 (21.88%) iSCSI
5 6 (18.75%) VSAN
6 5 (15.63%) FCoE
7 2 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (6.25%) Firewall
8 1 (3.13%) BGP
8 1 (3.13%) LAN
8 1 (3.13%) Network Security
8 1 (3.13%) OSPF
8 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.13%) VLAN
8 1 (3.13%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
2 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) SAN Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Storage Specialist
4 3 (9.38%) Storage Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Backup Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) SAN Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) SAN Storage Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Flash
2 2 (6.25%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Enterprise Storage
2 12 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 12 (37.50%) Replication
3 8 (25.00%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.38%) NVMe
4 3 (9.38%) Symmetrix
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (6.25%) Celerra
5 2 (6.25%) CMDB
5 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.25%) EMC Centera
5 2 (6.25%) EMC VNX
5 2 (6.25%) IBM XIV
5 2 (6.25%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
6 1 (3.13%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Windows
3 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.25%) AIX
4 2 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Migration
2 10 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (21.88%) Data Protection
3 7 (21.88%) High Availability
3 7 (21.88%) Storage Management
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (15.63%) Agile
5 5 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (15.63%) Change Management
5 5 (15.63%) Data Migration
5 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
5 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (15.63%) Validation
6 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (12.50%) Runbook
7 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.38%) Observability
7 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.63%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) JCL
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) CCNP
2 4 (12.50%) HP ASE
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) NCDA
3 2 (6.25%) VCP6
3 2 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.13%) CCNA
4 1 (3.13%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) SRDF
1 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.50%) NFS
3 3 (9.38%) Firmware
3 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.25%) KVM
4 2 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Ansible
2 6 (18.75%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (18.75%) EMC TimeFinder
3 5 (15.63%) Avamar
3 5 (15.63%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.50%) Terraform
4 4 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Grafana
5 3 (9.38%) NetBackup
5 3 (9.38%) vMotion
5 3 (9.38%) vRealize
6 2 (6.25%) PowerCLI
7 1 (3.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (71.88%) Cisco
2 15 (46.88%) EMC
3 13 (40.63%) Dell
4 12 (37.50%) Pure Storage
4 12 (37.50%) VMware
5 10 (31.25%) NetApp
6 8 (25.00%) IBM
7 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
8 5 (15.63%) Isilon
9 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 4 (12.50%) Veeam
10 3 (9.38%) Broadcom
10 3 (9.38%) Commvault
11 2 (6.25%) 3PAR
11 2 (6.25%) HP
11 2 (6.25%) ICL
11 2 (6.25%) Oracle
12 1 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (3.13%) Juniper