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 8 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
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 514 543
Rank change year-on-year -66 +29 +126
Contract jobs citing Brocade 22 13 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.056% 0.042% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.090% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 33
10th Percentile £340 £418 £397
25th Percentile £364 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% -11.93%
75th Percentile £663 £513 £513
90th Percentile £703 £528 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £433
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.05% -13.93%
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 17,654 14,393 19,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.13% 46.29% 43.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,376 8,550 12,462
10th Percentile £300 £275 £255
25th Percentile £412 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.21%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 851 420 926
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.93
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +0.87% -2.54%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.69 £58.94
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.50 £26.39
% change year-on-year -16.98% +0.42% -0.34%

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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 8 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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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 8 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 -2 12 £463 - 1
UK excluding London -57 12 £400 -11.11% 2
England -72 10 £625 +35.14% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 -
London -33 4 £623 +26.08%
Scotland +8 3 £463 +2.78% 1
North of England -67 1 £366 -18.67%
Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
South West - 1 £675 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £366 -

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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 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Nutanix
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (9.09%) Cohesity
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) SAN
2 5 (22.73%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (13.64%) NAS
4 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 2 (9.09%) VPN
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Backup Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Storage Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Storage and Backup Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Storage Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Technology Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Storage Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) NVMe
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Replication
5 1 (4.55%) CMDB
5 1 (4.55%) EMC VNX
5 1 (4.55%) HP Storage
5 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Linux
2 11 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (36.36%) Windows
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.55%) AIX
5 1 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (4.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (40.91%) Migration
3 8 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (36.36%) Change Management
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (22.73%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
6 4 (18.18%) High Availability
7 3 (13.64%) Agile
7 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity
7 3 (13.64%) DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Runbook
8 2 (9.09%) BCP
8 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
8 2 (9.09%) PLM
8 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
8 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
8 2 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) NCDA
4 2 (9.09%) VCP6
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.55%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) VMware NSX
3 2 (9.09%) Firmware
3 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) KVM
3 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) Docker
4 1 (4.55%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Ansible
1 7 (31.82%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (31.82%) EMC VPLEX
2 3 (13.64%) Grafana
2 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) vMotion
2 3 (13.64%) vRealize
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
4 1 (4.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 14 (63.64%) VMware
3 11 (50.00%) EMC
4 8 (36.36%) Dell
5 7 (31.82%) Isilon
5 7 (31.82%) Red Hat
6 6 (27.27%) NetApp
7 3 (13.64%) Commvault
7 3 (13.64%) Pure Storage
8 2 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (9.09%) Hitachi
8 2 (9.09%) IBM
8 2 (9.09%) ICL
8 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
8 2 (9.09%) Oracle
8 2 (9.09%) Veeam
9 1 (4.55%) Dell Compellent
9 1 (4.55%) HP
9 1 (4.55%) Veritas