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 7 November 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 529 572
Rank change year-on-year -45 +43 +168
Contract jobs citing Brocade 13 26 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.071% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.078% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 32
10th Percentile - £323 £366
25th Percentile £325 £447 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £553 £558 £592
90th Percentile £713 £586 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £513 £465
% change year-on-year -26.83% +10.22% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 16,625 16,492 21,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 44.90% 45.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,418 9,726 13,628
10th Percentile £283 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
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 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 510 673
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -27.04% +75.44%
75th Percentile £39.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.72 £71.45 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £29.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -23.05% -32.16% +94.32%

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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 7 November 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 7 November 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
UK excluding London -38 9 £375 -26.83% 17
Work from Home +16 7 £350 -36.36% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £350 - 4
England -39 5 £588 +6.82% 11
London -10 2 £513 -4.65%
South East +2 1 - -
Midlands -22 1 £500 +85.19%
South West - 1 £675 - 10
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 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) NAS
2 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
3 1 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Technology Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Backup Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Storage Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Storage and Backup Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Storage Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) EMC VNX
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.69%) HP Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (7.69%) AIX
5 1 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (61.54%) Change Management
1 8 (61.54%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (53.85%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (53.85%) Problem Management
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Low Latency
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (53.85%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
2 9 (69.23%) EMC
2 9 (69.23%) VMware
3 8 (61.54%) Dell
4 7 (53.85%) Isilon
4 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
5 2 (15.38%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (15.38%) Hitachi
5 2 (15.38%) NetApp
6 1 (7.69%) 3PAR
6 1 (7.69%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (7.69%) HP
6 1 (7.69%) IBM
6 1 (7.69%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (7.69%) Veritas