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 31 August 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 543 521
Rank change year-on-year -108 -22 +62
Contract jobs citing Brocade 23 21 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.064% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% 0.14% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 32
10th Percentile £479 £325 £328
25th Percentile £488 £358 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year +11.30% -5.88% -7.61%
75th Percentile £592 - £571
90th Percentile £650 £690 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £390 £540
% change year-on-year +35.90% -27.78% -1.82%
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 22,440 15,554 16,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.75% 47.20% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,821 9,526 10,400
10th Percentile £313 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 794 740
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.01 £62.51
90th Percentile £81.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -30.51%

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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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -105 22 £557 +11.30% 3
UK excluding London -84 16 £530 +35.90% 3
North of England -59 13 £519 +37.48%
Yorkshire -35 12 £525 +38.94%
Work from Home -43 11 £575 +64.29% 2
London -73 5 £578 +15.50% 2
Scotland -20 1 - - 2
South West -41 1 £575 -14.81%
West Midlands -44 1 £600 +20.00%
Midlands -49 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 7 (30.43%) Azure
1 7 (30.43%) OpenShift
2 5 (21.74%) GitHub
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Storage
5 2 (8.70%) Datadog
5 2 (8.70%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) SAN
2 10 (43.48%) NAS
3 6 (26.09%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (13.04%) Firewall
4 3 (13.04%) iSCSI
5 2 (8.70%) VSAN
6 1 (4.35%) BGP
6 1 (4.35%) LAN
6 1 (4.35%) Network Security
6 1 (4.35%) OSPF
6 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.35%) VLAN
6 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Storage Engineer
1 6 (26.09%) Storage Manager
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Storage Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Backup Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) IBM Storage Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) SAN Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) SAN Storage Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Storage Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Storage Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Middleware
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Replication
2 9 (39.13%) Data Centre
2 9 (39.13%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (34.78%) EMC VMAX
3 8 (34.78%) EMC VNX
4 3 (13.04%) Celerra
4 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (13.04%) EMC Centera
4 3 (13.04%) IBM XIV
4 3 (13.04%) Symmetrix
4 3 (13.04%) Symmetrix DMX
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.35%) CMDB
6 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
6 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
6 1 (4.35%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) zOS
3 4 (17.39%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (13.04%) AIX
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Migration
2 10 (43.48%) Storage Management
3 9 (39.13%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (26.09%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (26.09%) Problem Management
6 5 (21.74%) Agile
6 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
6 5 (21.74%) Runbook
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
7 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
7 4 (17.39%) DevOps
7 4 (17.39%) High Availability
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Project Management
8 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.04%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) JCL
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) REXX
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
1 3 (13.04%) NCDA
1 3 (13.04%) NCIE
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CCNA
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) NFS
2 6 (26.09%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 5 (21.74%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (17.39%) SRDF
4 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (13.04%) Firmware
5 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (13.04%) vSphere
6 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
6 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
7 1 (4.35%) Docker
7 1 (4.35%) GPFS
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Ansible
1 7 (30.43%) EMC VPLEX
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
1 7 (30.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (17.39%) SnapMirror
3 3 (13.04%) Avamar
3 3 (13.04%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
3 3 (13.04%) SnapVault
3 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
4 2 (8.70%) Argo
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (69.57%) Cisco
2 12 (52.17%) Dell
2 12 (52.17%) IBM
3 11 (47.83%) NetApp
4 10 (43.48%) EMC
5 9 (39.13%) VMware
6 7 (30.43%) 3PAR
7 6 (26.09%) Veeam
8 5 (21.74%) Broadcom
9 4 (17.39%) Pure Storage
10 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
10 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
11 2 (8.70%) Isilon
11 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
12 1 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (4.35%) Google
12 1 (4.35%) HP
12 1 (4.35%) Juniper
12 1 (4.35%) Oracle
12 1 (4.35%) Veritas