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 8 March 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
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 515 521
Rank change year-on-year -76 +6 +128
Contract jobs citing Brocade 28 12 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.040% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.085% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 30
10th Percentile £365 - £353
25th Percentile £406 £374 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% -14.68%
75th Percentile £538 £495 £517
90th Percentile £658 £521 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £488 £431
% change year-on-year -17.95% +13.04% -9.21%
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 18,695 14,097 19,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.11% 46.89% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,976 8,687 12,036
10th Percentile £306 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 941 454 1,029
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.02 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.53% +19.57% -28.58%

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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 8 March 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 8 March 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 8 March 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
Work from Home -21 12 £475 +27.01% 1
England -79 12 £620 +25.15% 5
UK excluding London -80 10 £400 -17.95%
London -43 4 £620 - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £375 -
Scotland - 3 £463 -
North of England -64 2 £366 -24.92%
Yorkshire - 2 £366 -
Midlands - 1 £413 -
West Midlands - 1 £413 -

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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 4 (14.29%) AWS
1 4 (14.29%) Nutanix
1 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 3 (10.71%) Rubrik
3 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (96.43%) SAN
2 15 (53.57%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (28.57%) NAS
4 6 (21.43%) iSCSI
4 6 (21.43%) VSAN
5 5 (17.86%) FCoE
6 1 (3.57%) BGP
6 1 (3.57%) LAN
6 1 (3.57%) Network Security
6 1 (3.57%) OSPF
6 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.57%) VLAN
6 1 (3.57%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) SAN Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Storage Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Backup Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) SAN Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) SAN Storage Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 12 (42.86%) Data Centre
3 10 (35.71%) Replication
4 6 (21.43%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (10.71%) NVMe
6 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.57%) CMDB
7 1 (3.57%) Data Fabric
7 1 (3.57%) EMC VNX
7 1 (3.57%) HP Storage
7 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (3.57%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (7.14%) AIX
5 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Migration
2 9 (32.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (21.43%) Change Management
4 5 (17.86%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
4 5 (17.86%) High Availability
4 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (17.86%) Validation
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.29%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 4 (14.29%) Storage Management
6 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) Data Centre Operations
6 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Runbook
6 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.86%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) CCNP
3 4 (14.29%) HP ASE
4 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 2 (7.14%) NCDA
5 2 (7.14%) VCP6
5 2 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.57%) CCNA
6 1 (3.57%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) SRDF
1 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) Firmware
3 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
4 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.14%) KVM
4 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Ansible
1 7 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (21.43%) EMC TimeFinder
3 4 (14.29%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (10.71%) Avamar
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) NetBackup
4 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 3 (10.71%) vMotion
4 3 (10.71%) vRealize
5 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 2 (7.14%) PowerCLI
5 2 (7.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Cisco
2 14 (50.00%) EMC
3 13 (46.43%) VMware
4 11 (39.29%) Dell
5 10 (35.71%) Pure Storage
6 8 (28.57%) NetApp
7 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (14.29%) IBM
8 4 (14.29%) Isilon
9 3 (10.71%) Commvault
10 2 (7.14%) Hitachi
10 2 (7.14%) ICL
10 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
10 2 (7.14%) Oracle
10 2 (7.14%) Veeam
11 1 (3.57%) Broadcom
11 1 (3.57%) Dell Compellent
11 1 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (3.57%) HP
11 1 (3.57%) Juniper