FCoE Contract Job Trends

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FCoE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 518 586
Rank change year-on-year -85 +68 +177
Contract jobs citing FCoE 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.050% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - £450
75th Percentile £488 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.50 - £58.50
Median hourly rate £78.00 - £63.00
75th Percentile £79.50 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

FCoE falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,243 4,021 5,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 13.14% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,769 2,423 3,581
10th Percentile £204 £209 £205
25th Percentile £360 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +4.17% -7.34%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -0.32% -1.05% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 130 384
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.18 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £43.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -18.82% +123.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.88 £74.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.79 £50.00
% change year-on-year +31.93% -36.42% +163.16%

FCoE
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FCoE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

FCoE job vacancy trend in the UK

FCoE
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FCoE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FCoE

FCoE
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FCoE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FCoE

FCoE
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FCoE within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England -88 1 - - 2
Work from Home - 1 - -

FCoE
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 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
1 5 (100.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) SAN Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) EMC VMAX
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (60.00%) Replication
4 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (20.00%) Symmetrix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Storage Virtualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) HP ASE
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Brocade
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Dell
2 4 (80.00%) EMC
2 4 (80.00%) Pure Storage
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Broadcom