Fibre Channel Contracts

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Fibre Channel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Fibre Channel over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 651 821
Rank change year-on-year +95 +170 -175
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 35 56 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.093% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 0.75% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 29
10th Percentile £355 £378 £345
25th Percentile £400 £461 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £592 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +39.29% +3.03%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £450
90th Percentile £722 £749 £534
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 £592 £425
% change year-on-year -5.83% +39.29% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Fibre Channel is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,718 7,429 9,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.10% 12.32% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,438 4,836 6,416
10th Percentile £205 £231 £227
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £604
90th Percentile £700 £721 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.76% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 494 363
10th Percentile £13.78 £9.80 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £60.66 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.12 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.39 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.76% -13.95% -11.34%

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 23 April 2024.

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 11 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 23 April 2024. 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 +44 31 £558 -5.83% 7
England +112 25 £469 -21.88% 7
Midlands +44 12 £575 +57.53% 4
South East +18 10 £400 -45.39% 3
East Midlands - 9 £575 - 2
Scotland +15 8 £637 +21.24%
Work from Home +110 5 £575 - 1
West Midlands +36 3 £1,000 +173.97% 2
London +91 2 £488 -18.75%
North of England +31 1 £250 -35.48%
Yorkshire +21 1 £250 -35.48%

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 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (20.00%) SAS
3 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (8.57%) IIS
4 3 (8.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.43%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.57%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (77.14%) SAN
2 16 (45.71%) iSCSI
3 10 (28.57%) Firewall
3 10 (28.57%) VPN
4 7 (20.00%) DNS
4 7 (20.00%) NAS
5 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
6 4 (11.43%) LAN
6 4 (11.43%) SSL
6 4 (11.43%) VLAN
6 4 (11.43%) VoIP
6 4 (11.43%) Wireless
7 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (5.71%) DHCP
7 2 (5.71%) Multicast
7 2 (5.71%) Network Security
7 2 (5.71%) NGFW
7 2 (5.71%) WAN
8 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) DB2
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Banking
3 4 (11.43%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Python Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Backup Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Flash
1 7 (20.00%) POSIX
2 3 (8.57%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
1 6 (17.14%) HP Storage
2 5 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 5 (14.29%) NVMe
3 4 (11.43%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (11.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (8.57%) Replication
5 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (85.71%) Linux
2 26 (74.29%) Windows
3 13 (37.14%) Unix
3 13 (37.14%) Windows Server
4 10 (28.57%) Solaris
5 8 (22.86%) AIX
6 7 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (11.43%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (11.43%) Ubuntu
7 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (8.57%) VMS
8 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
10 1 (2.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Storage Management
2 9 (25.71%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (22.86%) ITIL
4 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (20.00%) SDLC
5 6 (17.14%) Change Management
5 6 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 5 (14.29%) High Availability
6 5 (14.29%) Observability
6 5 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
6 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 5 (14.29%) Statistics
6 5 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (11.43%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (11.43%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) PowerShell
2 12 (34.29%) SQL
3 9 (25.71%) Python
4 7 (20.00%) Java
4 7 (20.00%) Perl
5 5 (14.29%) Bash
6 2 (5.71%) AWK
6 2 (5.71%) Bourne shell
6 2 (5.71%) Korn
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (17.14%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) MCSE
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) CCNA
3 4 (11.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) CCIE
5 2 (5.71%) CCNP
5 2 (5.71%) RHCE
5 2 (5.71%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.86%) MCSA
6 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (25.71%) vSphere
2 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) NFS
3 4 (11.43%) Docker
3 4 (11.43%) Firmware
3 4 (11.43%) GPFS
4 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.86%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (22.86%) NetBackup
2 6 (17.14%) HP Data Protector
3 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (14.29%) SCCM
4 4 (11.43%) Terraform
4 4 (11.43%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 3 (8.57%) Ansible
5 3 (8.57%) Puppet
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle ZFS
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.71%) yum
7 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.86%) VxRail
7 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Brocade
1 15 (42.86%) EMC
2 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (37.14%) VMware
4 11 (31.43%) Cisco
5 6 (17.14%) HP
5 6 (17.14%) Oracle
5 6 (17.14%) Symantec
5 6 (17.14%) Veritas
6 5 (14.29%) Google
7 4 (11.43%) IBM
7 4 (11.43%) NetApp
7 4 (11.43%) Sybase
8 3 (8.57%) Aruba
8 3 (8.57%) Palo Alto
8 3 (8.57%) ProCurve
8 3 (8.57%) Synology
8 3 (8.57%) Veeam
8 3 (8.57%) Zerto
9 2 (5.71%) Red Hat