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 22 February 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 524 535
Rank change year-on-year -62 +11 +131
Contract jobs citing Brocade 20 8 66
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.026% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.056% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 32
10th Percentile £363 - £403
25th Percentile £400 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% -11.93%
75th Percentile £630 £475 £515
90th Percentile £678 - £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £450 £441
% change year-on-year -13.89% +1.98% -14.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.10 - -
25th Percentile £64.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - -
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 18,176 14,311 19,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.58% 46.55% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,650 8,642 12,143
10th Percentile £303 £280 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 419 946
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +7.78% -22.47%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -16.13%

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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 22 February 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 22 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Brocade in the UK

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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 22 February 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
Work from Home -9 9 £463 - 1
UK excluding London -78 8 £388 -13.89% 4
England -71 7 £625 +38.89% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £375 -
Scotland - 3 £463 - 1
London -34 2 £623 - 3
North of England -66 1 £366 -18.67% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £366 - 1

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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 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Nutanix
2 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Cohesity
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) SAN
2 8 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 4 (20.00%) VSAN
4 3 (15.00%) FCoE
4 3 (15.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) SAN Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Administrator
2 2 (10.00%) Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Senior
2 2 (10.00%) Storage Specialist
2 2 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Brocade Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Field Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Storage and Backup Consultant
3 1 (5.00%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (35.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (25.00%) Replication
4 4 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (15.00%) NVMe
6 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (5.00%) CMDB
7 1 (5.00%) EMC VNX
7 1 (5.00%) HP Storage
7 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (5.00%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 8 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) High Availability
5 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Runbook
6 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Observability
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (10.00%) CCNP
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) HP ASE
4 2 (10.00%) NCDA
4 2 (10.00%) VCP6
4 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (5.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) SRDF
3 3 (15.00%) VMware NSX
4 2 (10.00%) Firmware
4 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.00%) KVM
4 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (5.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 4 (20.00%) EMC TimeFinder
2 4 (20.00%) EMC VPLEX
3 3 (15.00%) Grafana
3 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) vMotion
3 3 (15.00%) vRealize
4 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.00%) PowerCLI
5 1 (5.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Cisco
2 9 (45.00%) Dell
2 9 (45.00%) EMC
2 9 (45.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (25.00%) NetApp
4 5 (25.00%) Pure Storage
5 4 (20.00%) Isilon
6 3 (15.00%) Commvault
7 2 (10.00%) Hitachi
7 2 (10.00%) IBM
7 2 (10.00%) ICL
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle
7 2 (10.00%) Veeam
8 1 (5.00%) Broadcom
8 1 (5.00%) Dell Compellent
8 1 (5.00%) HP