Fibre Channel Contracts

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fibre Channel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fibre Channel over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 563 657
Rank change year-on-year +61 +94 +154
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 18 35 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.080% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 0.62% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 30
10th Percentile £465 £355 £377
25th Percentile £472 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £540 £596
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -9.40% +40.24%
75th Percentile £650 £626 £638
90th Percentile - £722 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £558 £592
% change year-on-year +10.31% -5.83% +39.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Fibre Channel 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 3,729 5,616 7,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.91% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,282 3,361 4,780
10th Percentile £213 £205 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 425 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in the UK

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in the UK

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in the UK

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in the UK

Fibre Channel
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fibre Channel within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +47 17 £615 +31.20% 6
UK excluding London +44 15 £615 +10.31% 7
South East +45 9 £615 +53.75% 2
East of England - 5 £467 -
London +43 3 - -
Work from Home +43 1 - - 5
Scotland +6 1 £472 -25.84% 1

Fibre Channel
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) IaaS
2 3 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 3 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) SAN
2 7 (38.89%) iSCSI
3 5 (27.78%) DNS
3 5 (27.78%) Firewall
4 3 (16.67%) DHCP
4 3 (16.67%) VSAN
5 2 (11.11%) BGP
5 2 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (11.11%) FCoE
5 2 (11.11%) IPv6
5 2 (11.11%) OSPF
5 2 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (11.11%) TACACS
6 1 (5.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.11%) Banking
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Architect
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) SAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
2 1 (5.56%) Flash
2 1 (5.56%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
1 4 (22.22%) Replication
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.11%) CentOS
5 1 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.56%) Unix
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Capacity Management
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Problem Management
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) Edge Virtualization
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (22.22%) Proactive Management
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Runbook
5 3 (16.67%) Security Patching
6 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) MCSE
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (22.22%) VCP5
3 4 (22.22%) VCP6
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 8 (44.44%) vSphere
3 6 (33.33%) NFS
4 5 (27.78%) Docker
4 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (16.67%) DFS Replication
7 2 (11.11%) Ceph
8 1 (5.56%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
1 4 (22.22%) Podman
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Argo
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (5.56%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (5.56%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (5.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) NetApp
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
4 4 (22.22%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (22.22%) Splunk
4 4 (22.22%) Veeam
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) Brocade
6 2 (11.11%) EMC
6 2 (11.11%) F5
6 2 (11.11%) Hitachi
6 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.56%) Google
7 1 (5.56%) HP
7 1 (5.56%) ICL
7 1 (5.56%) McAfee
7 1 (5.56%) Symantec
7 1 (5.56%) Veritas