Brocade Contracts

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 16 May 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 494 619
Rank change year-on-year -6 +125 +199
Contract jobs citing Brocade 21 79 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.44% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 35
10th Percentile £366 £340 £378
25th Percentile £382 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -11.93% +17.84%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £626
90th Percentile £519 £600 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £480 £456
% change year-on-year -16.56% +5.21% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - £58.75
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year - -69.68% +24.60%
75th Percentile - - £80.25
90th Percentile - - £84.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.88%

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 13,926 18,021 24,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.71% 42.35% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,685 11,190 16,371
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £618 £630 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,104 665
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.05 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% -49.41% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £56.70 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

Brocade
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Brocade in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Brocade.

Daily rate trend for Brocade in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Brocade over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Brocade in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Brocade.

Hourly rate trend for Brocade in the UK

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Top 10 Contract 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 16 May 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
England +14 15 £500 +3.36% 5
UK excluding London -8 12 £401 -16.56% 6
North of England -10 7 £420 -2.33% 1
London +27 6 £500 -2.91% 3
Work from Home +10 4 £374 -18.52% 8
North West +9 4 £488 +1.56%
Yorkshire -15 3 £378 -12.21% 1
Scotland +7 2 £436 -37.05%
Northern Ireland - 2 £350 - 3
East of England - 1 - -

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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 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) SAN
2 5 (23.81%) DHCP
2 5 (23.81%) DNS
3 2 (9.52%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.76%) VSAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) TestNG
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Infoblox Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Network Specialist
2 5 (23.81%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Backup Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Brocade Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) pytest
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) YAML
2 1 (4.76%) Flash
2 1 (4.76%) POSIX
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.76%) NVMe
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
3 1 (4.76%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Unix
3 2 (9.52%) zOS
4 1 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Problem Management
2 8 (38.10%) Migration
3 7 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 6 (28.57%) Change Management
5 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) BDD
7 2 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
7 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (9.52%) DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) OO
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) Project Management
7 2 (9.52%) TDD
7 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) JCL
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) REXX
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) HP ASE
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Firmware
2 3 (14.29%) NFS
3 2 (9.52%) GPFS
3 2 (9.52%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (4.76%) Docker
4 1 (4.76%) Microcode
4 1 (4.76%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 2 (9.52%) EMC VPLEX
3 2 (9.52%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
3 2 (9.52%) Puppet
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (9.52%) vRealize
4 1 (4.76%) EMC TimeFinder
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Cisco
2 12 (57.14%) EMC
3 8 (38.10%) HP
4 6 (28.57%) Dell
5 5 (23.81%) Infoblox
5 5 (23.81%) VMware
6 4 (19.05%) IBM
6 4 (19.05%) Veritas
7 3 (14.29%) Broadcom
7 3 (14.29%) NetApp
8 2 (9.52%) 3PAR
8 2 (9.52%) Isilon
8 2 (9.52%) Pure Storage
8 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
8 2 (9.52%) Sybase
9 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
9 1 (4.76%) ICL
9 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
9 1 (4.76%) Tufin
9 1 (4.76%) Zscaler