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 11 May 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
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 497 503
Rank change year-on-year -92 +6 +121
Contract jobs citing Brocade 36 22 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.075% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.16% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 37
10th Percentile £370 £366 £340
25th Percentile £435 £382 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £484 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +0.77% -11.93%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £588
90th Percentile £637 £519 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £401 £480
% change year-on-year +18.60% -16.56% +5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £62.10 - -
25th Percentile £64.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - £23.80
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 19,724 13,978 18,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.42% 47.54% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,511 8,753 11,339
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £630
90th Percentile £703 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 569 1,095
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% +13.33% -48.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.81 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.05 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +21.93% +6.98% -45.71%

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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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -107 24 £557 +11.30% 5
UK excluding London -86 18 £475 +18.60% 3
Work from Home -22 14 £500 +33.69% 1
Yorkshire -44 11 £519 +37.48%
North of England -65 11 £519 +23.57% 1
London -49 6 £600 +20.00% 3
Scotland +5 3 £463 +6.02%
Northern Ireland +2 2 £375 +7.14%
Midlands - 2 £506 -
West Midlands - 2 £506 -

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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 8 (22.22%) OpenShift
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub
4 4 (11.11%) Nutanix
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.33%) Rubrik
6 2 (5.56%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (80.56%) SAN
2 17 (47.22%) Fibre Channel
3 12 (33.33%) NAS
4 7 (19.44%) iSCSI
4 7 (19.44%) VSAN
5 5 (13.89%) FCoE
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (5.56%) Firewall
7 1 (2.78%) BGP
7 1 (2.78%) LAN
7 1 (2.78%) Network Security
7 1 (2.78%) OSPF
7 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.78%) VLAN
7 1 (2.78%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) SAN Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Administrator
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Storage Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Storage Specialist
5 3 (8.33%) Backup Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) SAN Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) SAN Storage Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Storage Administrator
5 3 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Storage Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Flash
2 2 (5.56%) Middleware
2 2 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Enterprise Storage
2 16 (44.44%) Data Centre
3 15 (41.67%) Replication
4 10 (27.78%) EMC VMAX
5 4 (11.11%) EMC VNX
6 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (8.33%) NVMe
6 3 (8.33%) Symmetrix
7 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (5.56%) Celerra
7 2 (5.56%) CMDB
7 2 (5.56%) EMC Centera
7 2 (5.56%) IBM XIV
7 2 (5.56%) Symmetrix DMX
8 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
8 1 (2.78%) HP Storage
8 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Linux
2 9 (25.00%) Windows
3 6 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (11.11%) zOS
5 3 (8.33%) AIX
6 2 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Migration
2 11 (30.56%) Storage Management
3 10 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 7 (19.44%) Agile
6 7 (19.44%) Data Migration
6 7 (19.44%) High Availability
6 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (16.67%) Problem Management
8 5 (13.89%) DevOps
8 5 (13.89%) Runbook
8 5 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (13.89%) Validation
9 4 (11.11%) Change Management
9 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
9 4 (11.11%) Observability
9 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (19.44%) Bash
4 4 (11.11%) JCL
5 2 (5.56%) Perl
6 1 (2.78%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.11%) CCNP
3 4 (11.11%) HP ASE
3 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) NCDA
4 3 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.56%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) VCP6
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) CCNA
6 1 (2.78%) NCIE
6 1 (2.78%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (19.44%) NFS
2 7 (19.44%) SRDF
3 4 (11.11%) Firmware
3 4 (11.11%) Time Sharing Option
3 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.56%) KVM
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.56%) vSphere
6 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Ansible
2 7 (19.44%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (19.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (16.67%) EMC TimeFinder
3 6 (16.67%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (13.89%) Avamar
4 5 (13.89%) NetBackup
4 5 (13.89%) Terraform
5 4 (11.11%) Grafana
6 3 (8.33%) vMotion
6 3 (8.33%) vRealize
7 2 (5.56%) PowerCLI
7 2 (5.56%) SnapMirror
7 2 (5.56%) SnapVault
7 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.78%) Argo
8 1 (2.78%) Podman
8 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Cisco
2 16 (44.44%) EMC
3 15 (41.67%) Dell
4 14 (38.89%) VMware
5 13 (36.11%) Pure Storage
6 12 (33.33%) NetApp
7 11 (30.56%) IBM
8 6 (16.67%) Red Hat
8 6 (16.67%) Veeam
9 5 (13.89%) Broadcom
9 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
10 4 (11.11%) 3PAR
10 4 (11.11%) Isilon
11 3 (8.33%) Commvault
12 2 (5.56%) HP
12 2 (5.56%) ICL
12 2 (5.56%) Oracle
13 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
13 1 (2.78%) Juniper
13 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds