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 28 September 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
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 539 522
Rank change year-on-year -112 -17 +52
Contract jobs citing Brocade 21 20 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.061% 0.097%
As % of the Vendors category 0.093% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 22
10th Percentile £480 £325 £356
25th Percentile £494 £376 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% +2.56% -11.36%
75th Percentile £589 - £550
90th Percentile £644 £694 £597
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +32.42% -15.74% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
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 22,633 15,596 17,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.61% 47.53% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,770 9,609 10,048
10th Percentile £310 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £613 £625
90th Percentile £705 £700 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,319 808 642
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.51
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.67 £15.65
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -19.52% -28.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.68 £64.25
90th Percentile £77.65 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -29.00% -30.23%

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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 28 September 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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Top 11 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 28 September 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 -112 19 £543 +8.50% 7
UK excluding London -89 15 £530 +32.42% 2
North of England - 11 £519 - 1
Yorkshire - 10 £525 - 1
Work from Home -55 9 £568 +62.29% 5
London -84 5 £561 +12.20% 5
Scotland -26 2 - -
South West -37 1 £575 -14.81%
Midlands -43 1 £600 +20.00%
West Midlands -45 1 £600 +20.00%
North West - 1 £477 -

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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 (38.10%) OpenShift
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Storage
5 2 (9.52%) Datadog
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) SAN
2 11 (52.38%) NAS
3 6 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (19.05%) iSCSI
5 2 (9.52%) VSAN
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.76%) DHCP
6 1 (4.76%) DNS
6 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Storage Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Storage Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Backup Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) SAN Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) SAN Storage Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Storage Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Storage Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) YAML
3 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Replication
2 10 (47.62%) Enterprise Storage
3 9 (42.86%) Data Centre
4 7 (33.33%) EMC VNX
5 6 (28.57%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (4.76%) Celerra
7 1 (4.76%) CMDB
7 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (4.76%) EMC Centera
7 1 (4.76%) IBM XIV
7 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
7 1 (4.76%) NVMe
7 1 (4.76%) PKI
7 1 (4.76%) Symmetrix
7 1 (4.76%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 4 (19.05%) AIX
3 4 (19.05%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (14.29%) zOS
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (4.76%) Solaris
6 1 (4.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Migration
2 9 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (38.10%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (33.33%) Storage Management
5 6 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (28.57%) Runbook
6 5 (23.81%) Problem Management
6 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
7 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
7 4 (19.05%) High Availability
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (14.29%) Change Management
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (14.29%) Observability
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Bash
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) JCL
4 2 (9.52%) REXX
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) NCDA
2 3 (14.29%) NCIE
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) NFS
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (19.05%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 4 (19.05%) SRDF
4 3 (14.29%) Firmware
4 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (14.29%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (14.29%) vSphere
5 2 (9.52%) Docker
5 2 (9.52%) GPFS
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) EMC VPLEX
2 5 (23.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (19.05%) NetBackup
3 4 (19.05%) SnapMirror
4 3 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (14.29%) SnapVault
4 3 (14.29%) vCenter Server
5 2 (9.52%) Argo
5 2 (9.52%) Grafana
5 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.76%) Avamar
6 1 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (4.76%) SCOM
6 1 (4.76%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Cisco
2 12 (57.14%) Dell
3 11 (52.38%) NetApp
4 10 (47.62%) EMC
4 10 (47.62%) VMware
5 9 (42.86%) IBM
6 5 (23.81%) 3PAR
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
7 4 (19.05%) Pure Storage
7 4 (19.05%) Veeam
8 3 (14.29%) Broadcom
8 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
9 2 (9.52%) Google
9 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
9 2 (9.52%) Veritas
10 1 (4.76%) Fujitsu
10 1 (4.76%) HP
10 1 (4.76%) Oracle