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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 550 531
Rank change year-on-year -122 -19 +45
Contract jobs citing Brocade 17 15 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.045% 0.088%
As % of the Vendors category 0.074% 0.094% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £486 - £324
25th Percentile £491 £325 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -6.98% +11.63%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £561
90th Percentile £663 £713 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £375 £513
% change year-on-year +38.40% -26.83% +6.77%
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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 23,086 15,878 16,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.72% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,928 9,791 9,890
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £623 £613 £625
90th Percentile £713 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,458 809 574
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.96 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £17.87 £16.44
Median hourly rate £24.19 £24.62 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -24.82% -25.40%
75th Percentile £55.88 £37.50 £64.40
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.39 £30.21
% change year-on-year +8.37% -29.18% -30.96%

Brocade 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

Brocade 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

Brocade 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

Brocade 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 16 October 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 -134 13 £530 +6.00% 5
UK excluding London -91 11 £519 +38.40% 3
Work from Home -75 9 £561 +60.29% 5
North of England - 6 £519 - 1
London -88 5 £561 +12.20% 4
Yorkshire - 5 £525 - 1
Scotland - 4 £500 - 2
South West -35 1 £575 -14.81%
North West - 1 £477 -

Brocade Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1IBM58.8%10
1NetApp58.8%10
3EMC52.9%9
4Cisco47.1%8
4Dell47.1%8
4VMware47.1%8
7Google23.5%4
7Veritas23.5%4
93PAR17.6%3
9Red Hat17.6%3
11Broadcom11.8%2
11Veeam11.8%2
13Fujitsu5.9%1
13HP5.9%1
13Microsoft5.9%1
13Oracle5.9%1
13Pure Storage5.9%1
13SolarWinds5.9%1
13Sybase5.9%1