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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 514 573
Rank change year-on-year -24 +59 +233
Contract jobs citing Brocade 19 47 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 39
10th Percentile £325 £350 £421
25th Percentile £376 £459 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -3.69% +11.62%
75th Percentile - £576 £638
90th Percentile £694 £600 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -26.56% -0.91% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -58.61% -8.73%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - -28.13%

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 15,284 16,849 22,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.09% 44.17% 44.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,359 10,137 14,497
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 785 684 656
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% -30.36% +85.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.43
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.05 £30.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year -29.83% -25.60% +101.63%

Brocade
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Brocade as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Brocade in the UK

Brocade
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

Brocade
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Brocade over the 6 months to 15 September 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

Brocade
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 15 September 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 -10 11 £400 -26.56%
England -10 11 £500 -9.09% 2
London +11 8 £500 -9.09% 2
Work from Home +21 7 £350 -35.19% 2
Northern Ireland - 6 £350 -
Scotland -5 2 £436 -3.06%
South East +23 1 - -
Midlands -22 1 £500 -13.04%
South West - 1 £675 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -

Brocade
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) SAN
2 5 (26.32%) DHCP
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 3 (15.79%) SD-WAN
4 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) WAN
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.26%) Firewall
5 1 (5.26%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.26%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (5.26%) VLAN
5 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Consultant
2 5 (26.32%) Infoblox Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Network Specialist
3 4 (21.05%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Storage Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Technology Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Backup Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Storage Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Storage and Backup Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Data Centre Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Flash
2 1 (5.26%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) HP Storage
3 1 (5.26%) NVMe
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
2 10 (52.63%) Windows
3 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (10.53%) Unix
6 1 (5.26%) AIX
6 1 (5.26%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Migration
1 9 (47.37%) Problem Management
2 8 (42.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (36.84%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (36.84%) Change Management
3 7 (36.84%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) High Availability
5 2 (10.53%) Business Continuity
5 2 (10.53%) Coaching
5 2 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.53%) Low Latency
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (10.53%) OO
5 2 (10.53%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) GPFS
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (36.84%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (10.53%) NetBackup
2 2 (10.53%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 10 (52.63%) EMC
3 9 (47.37%) VMware
4 7 (36.84%) Dell
4 7 (36.84%) Isilon
4 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
5 5 (26.32%) Infoblox
6 3 (15.79%) IBM
6 3 (15.79%) NetApp
6 3 (15.79%) Veritas
7 2 (10.53%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (10.53%) Sybase
8 1 (5.26%) 3PAR
8 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
8 1 (5.26%) Google
8 1 (5.26%) HP
8 1 (5.26%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (5.26%) Tufin
8 1 (5.26%) Zscaler