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 23 July 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
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 540 519
Rank change year-on-year -85 -21 +93
Contract jobs citing Brocade 33 21 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.064% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.14% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 32
10th Percentile £425 £341 £328
25th Percentile £461 £374 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £539
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -10.22% -2.05%
75th Percentile £565 £500 £588
90th Percentile £606 £519 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £390 £550
% change year-on-year +33.08% -29.09% +25.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.50 - -
Median hourly rate £78.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £79.50 - -
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 21,778 15,500 17,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.30% 47.45% 43.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,534 9,482 11,204
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.72% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 764 967
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.13
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -3.38% -36.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.07% -10.00% -22.24%

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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 23 July 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 10 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 23 July 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 -104 27 £530 +6.00% 1
UK excluding London -90 18 £519 +33.08%
North of England -62 15 £519 +33.08%
Yorkshire -38 14 £519 +37.48%
Work from Home -48 14 £550 +51.93% 1
London -65 6 £578 +15.50% 1
West Midlands - 2 £506 -
Midlands - 2 £506 -
North West -47 1 £477 -9.14%
South West - 1 £575 -

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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 10 (30.30%) OpenShift
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) GitHub
3 5 (15.15%) Rubrik
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.09%) AWS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.06%) Datadog
7 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (66.67%) SAN
2 15 (45.45%) Fibre Channel
2 15 (45.45%) NAS
3 8 (24.24%) VSAN
4 7 (21.21%) iSCSI
5 5 (15.15%) FCoE
6 3 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (9.09%) Firewall
7 1 (3.03%) BGP
7 1 (3.03%) LAN
7 1 (3.03%) Network Security
7 1 (3.03%) OSPF
7 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.03%) VLAN
7 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) SAN Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Storage Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Backup Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) IBM Storage Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) SAN Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) SAN Storage Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Storage Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 4 (12.12%) Storage Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Storage Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) Storage Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Flash
1 2 (6.06%) Middleware
1 2 (6.06%) REST
1 2 (6.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (57.58%) Replication
2 16 (48.48%) Data Centre
2 16 (48.48%) Enterprise Storage
3 14 (42.42%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (21.21%) EMC VNX
5 4 (12.12%) Symmetrix
6 3 (9.09%) Celerra
6 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (9.09%) EMC Centera
6 3 (9.09%) IBM XIV
6 3 (9.09%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
7 2 (6.06%) CMDB
8 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
8 1 (3.03%) HP Storage
8 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) Windows
3 5 (15.15%) AIX
3 5 (15.15%) zOS
4 4 (12.12%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Migration
2 14 (42.42%) Storage Management
3 11 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (27.27%) Data Migration
5 8 (24.24%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (21.21%) Data Protection
6 7 (21.21%) Problem Management
7 6 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (18.18%) High Availability
8 5 (15.15%) Agile
8 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
8 5 (15.15%) Data Centre Operations
8 5 (15.15%) Runbook
8 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (12.12%) DevOps
9 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (12.12%) Observability
9 4 (12.12%) Project Management
9 4 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Bash
2 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.15%) JCL
4 2 (6.06%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (12.12%) CCNP
2 4 (12.12%) HP ASE
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.09%) NCDA
3 3 (9.09%) NCIE
3 3 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (3.03%) CCNA
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) SRDF
2 9 (27.27%) NFS
3 6 (18.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 5 (15.15%) Time Sharing Option
4 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (12.12%) Firmware
6 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (9.09%) vSphere
7 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 8 (24.24%) Ansible
3 7 (21.21%) EMC VPLEX
3 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
4 6 (18.18%) Avamar
4 6 (18.18%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (18.18%) EMC TimeFinder
4 6 (18.18%) NetBackup
5 4 (12.12%) SnapMirror
5 4 (12.12%) Terraform
6 3 (9.09%) SnapVault
6 3 (9.09%) vCenter Server
7 2 (6.06%) Argo
7 2 (6.06%) Grafana
7 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (75.76%) Cisco
2 17 (51.52%) Dell
2 17 (51.52%) EMC
3 14 (42.42%) NetApp
4 13 (39.39%) IBM
4 13 (39.39%) VMware
5 11 (33.33%) Pure Storage
6 7 (21.21%) 3PAR
7 6 (18.18%) Broadcom
7 6 (18.18%) Red Hat
7 6 (18.18%) Veeam
8 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
9 2 (6.06%) HP
9 2 (6.06%) Isilon
9 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
10 1 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (3.03%) Juniper
10 1 (3.03%) Oracle