Brocade Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Brocade
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 September 2026, 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -44 - -
Contract jobs citing Brocade 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.028% 0.055% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.064% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
England median daily rate £556 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +11.15% -9.09% +9.13%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,554 942 890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.27% 51.42% 46.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 615 590
10th Percentile £313 £238 £250
25th Percentile £405 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 28 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.72 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £26.66 £15.22
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% -4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £33.99 £44.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%

Brocade
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Brocade relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Brocade job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Brocade
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Brocade.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Brocade

Brocade
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Brocade.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Brocade

Brocade
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Brocade within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Birmingham - 1 £600 -
Brocade
England

Brocade
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage