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 25 December 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
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 532 543
Rank change year-on-year -41 +11 +168
Contract jobs citing Brocade 16 22 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.092% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 35
10th Percentile £325 £426 £376
25th Percentile £363 £452 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% -10.59%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £551
90th Percentile £713 £564 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £475 £441
% change year-on-year -18.42% +7.65% -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 17,435 15,524 19,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.98% 45.80% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,103 9,250 12,348
10th Percentile £294 £285 £250
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 852 454 656
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.53 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £23.79 £27.75 £45.55
Median % change year-on-year -14.28% -39.07% +76.34%
75th Percentile £44.56 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.18 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.97 £25.60 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.19% -44.20% +103.91%

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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 25 December 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 8 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 25 December 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 -45 8 £388 -18.42%
Work from Home +1 7 £400 -27.27%
England -50 7 £623 +13.18% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 -
London -12 4 £623 +15.81% 1
Midlands - 1 £500 -
South West - 1 £675 -
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 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (12.50%) NAS
2 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Backup Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Storage Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Storage and Backup Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Storage Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Technology Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Brocade Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) EMC VNX
3 1 (6.25%) HP Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.25%) AIX
5 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (6.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
1 6 (37.50%) Change Management
2 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (31.25%) Migration
2 5 (31.25%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (31.25%) Problem Management
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 2 (12.50%) Coaching
4 2 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (12.50%) PLM
4 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
5 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 6 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Firmware
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (43.75%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Cisco
2 10 (62.50%) EMC
3 9 (56.25%) VMware
4 8 (50.00%) Dell
5 7 (43.75%) Isilon
5 7 (43.75%) Red Hat
6 2 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (12.50%) Hitachi
6 2 (12.50%) IBM
6 2 (12.50%) ICL
6 2 (12.50%) NetApp
7 1 (6.25%) Dell Compellent
7 1 (6.25%) HP
7 1 (6.25%) Pure Storage
7 1 (6.25%) Veritas