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 2 December 2025, 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
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 544 547
Rank change year-on-year -23 +3 +193
Contract jobs citing Brocade 15 22 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.062% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.088% 0.14% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 31
10th Percentile - £426 £363
25th Percentile £325 £452 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +6.77% -8.57%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £613
90th Percentile £713 £564 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -21.05% +2.15% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
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 17,042 16,141 20,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.23% 45.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,813 9,535 13,125
10th Percentile £290 £298 £256
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 509 672
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.50 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £63.91
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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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 2 December 2025.

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 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 2 December 2025. 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
UK excluding London -44 9 £375 -21.05% 69
Work from Home +6 8 £375 -31.82% 71
Northern Ireland - 7 £375 - 1
England -50 5 £588 +6.82% 67
London +1 2 £513 -4.65% 3
Midlands - 1 £500 - 14
South West - 1 £675 - 8
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 7

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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 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) NAS
2 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Administrator
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Backup Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Storage Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Storage and Backup Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Storage Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Technology Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Brocade Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) EMC VNX
3 1 (6.67%) HP Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) AIX
5 1 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (46.67%) Change Management
2 6 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 6 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Coaching
5 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Low Latency
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (13.33%) PLM
5 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
6 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (53.33%) EMC VPLEX
2 1 (6.67%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco
2 11 (73.33%) EMC
3 10 (66.67%) VMware
4 9 (60.00%) Dell
5 8 (53.33%) Isilon
5 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (13.33%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (13.33%) Hitachi
6 2 (13.33%) ICL
6 2 (13.33%) NetApp
7 1 (6.67%) Dell Compellent
7 1 (6.67%) HP
7 1 (6.67%) Pure Storage
7 1 (6.67%) Veritas