Brocade Contracts

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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 525 629
Rank change year-on-year +26 +104 +183
Contract jobs citing Brocade 20 75 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 38
10th Percentile £374 £404 £378
25th Percentile £387 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £494 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -9.40% +21.11%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £622
90th Percentile - £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £513 £463
% change year-on-year -17.02% +10.81% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - - £59.38
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £76.75
Median % change year-on-year - -68.99% +21.83%
75th Percentile - - £85.69
90th Percentile - - £87.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.88%

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 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Brocade as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Brocade in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Brocade.

Daily rate trend for Brocade in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Brocade over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Brocade in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Brocade.

Hourly rate trend for Brocade in the UK

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Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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 +14 15 £500 - 7
UK excluding London +2 12 £425 -17.02% 4
North of England +1 8 £420 -2.33%
London +35 5 £500 -2.91% 4
North West +13 5 £488 +1.56%
Work from Home +34 3 £374 -18.52% 5
Yorkshire -14 3 £378 -12.21%
Scotland +7 2 £436 -37.05% 1
East of England - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) SAN
2 5 (25.00%) DHCP
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.00%) NAS
4 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infoblox Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Network Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Backup Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) pytest
1 2 (10.00%) REST
1 2 (10.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) Flash
2 1 (5.00%) POSIX
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.00%) NVMe
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) zOS
4 1 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem Management
2 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 8 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 6 (30.00%) Change Management
4 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) BDD
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) High Availability
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) TDD
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Bash
2 2 (10.00%) JCL
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) REXX
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) HP ASE
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Firmware
3 3 (15.00%) NFS
4 2 (10.00%) GPFS
4 2 (10.00%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (5.00%) Microcode
5 1 (5.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 4 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 3 (15.00%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.00%) Puppet
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (10.00%) vRealize
4 1 (5.00%) EMC TimeFinder
4 1 (5.00%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) EMC
3 9 (45.00%) HP
4 5 (25.00%) Dell
4 5 (25.00%) Infoblox
4 5 (25.00%) Veritas
5 4 (20.00%) IBM
5 4 (20.00%) VMware
6 3 (15.00%) Broadcom
6 3 (15.00%) NetApp
7 2 (10.00%) 3PAR
7 2 (10.00%) Pure Storage
7 2 (10.00%) Sybase
8 1 (5.00%) Google
8 1 (5.00%) ICL
8 1 (5.00%) Isilon
8 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
8 1 (5.00%) Red Hat