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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 554 651
Rank change year-on-year +42 +97 +177
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 34 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.053% 0.059%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 0.43% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 15
10th Percentile £494 £299 £372
25th Percentile £600 £300 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £519 £592
Median % change year-on-year +18.55% -12.37% +39.29%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £636
90th Percentile - £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £615 £538 £592
% change year-on-year +14.42% -9.21% +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 4,016 5,141 7,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.29% 12.44% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 3,069 4,570
10th Percentile £235 £213 £231
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - -
75th Percentile £589 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £458
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.17% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 383 303
10th Percentile £14.93 £13.90 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.93 £17.66 £17.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -16.67% +65.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £73.65 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.48 £47.50 £57.17
% change year-on-year -12.68% -16.91% +138.19%

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 22 July 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 6 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 22 July 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 +51 33 £615 +18.55% 16
UK excluding London +30 31 £615 +14.42% 11
South East +60 27 £620 +41.71% 5
London +33 3 - - 4
East of England - 3 £470 - 4
Scotland - 1 £472 -

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 (2.94%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) IaaS
2 6 (17.65%) PaaS
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (67.65%) iSCSI
2 14 (41.18%) SAN
3 10 (29.41%) DNS
4 8 (23.53%) Firewall
5 6 (17.65%) DHCP
6 5 (14.71%) VSAN
7 4 (11.76%) BGP
7 4 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (11.76%) IPv6
7 4 (11.76%) OSPF
7 4 (11.76%) Spanning Tree
7 4 (11.76%) TACACS
8 2 (5.88%) FCoE
8 2 (5.88%) NAS
9 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
9 1 (2.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.88%) Banking
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Architect
1 17 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 16 (47.06%) VMware Architect
3 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 4 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) VMware Support Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) YAML
2 1 (2.94%) Flash
2 1 (2.94%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Clustering
1 3 (8.82%) Replication
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) FlexPod
3 1 (2.94%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 27 (79.41%) Windows
2 20 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (14.71%) Linux
5 2 (5.88%) CentOS
6 1 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Edge Virtualization
1 12 (35.29%) Performance Analysis
2 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (20.59%) ITIL
4 6 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
5 5 (14.71%) Runbook
6 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.76%) Operational Stability
6 4 (11.76%) Security Patching
7 3 (8.82%) Capacity Management
7 3 (8.82%) Data Protection
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (8.82%) Problem Management
7 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
8 2 (5.88%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) Perl
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (50.00%) MCSE
1 17 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 13 (38.24%) VCP5
3 13 (38.24%) VCP6
3 13 (38.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (79.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (64.71%) vSphere
3 18 (52.94%) NFS
3 18 (52.94%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
5 5 (14.71%) DFS Replication
6 4 (11.76%) Ceph
7 3 (8.82%) Docker
7 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
7 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
8 1 (2.94%) Firmware
8 1 (2.94%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Argo
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (5.88%) Podman
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.94%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (2.94%) vMotion
Vendors
1 27 (79.41%) VMware
2 22 (64.71%) Microsoft
3 19 (55.88%) NetApp
4 18 (52.94%) Veeam
5 17 (50.00%) Splunk
6 6 (17.65%) Cisco
6 6 (17.65%) Dell
7 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.88%) F5
8 2 (5.88%) Hitachi
8 2 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.94%) Aruba
9 1 (2.94%) Brocade
9 1 (2.94%) Citrix
9 1 (2.94%) Commvault
9 1 (2.94%) EMC
9 1 (2.94%) Google
9 1 (2.94%) Sybase
9 1 (2.94%) Veritas