Fibre Channel Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Fibre Channel (FC)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Fibre Channel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.036% - 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £1,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +207.69%
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £473 £435
% change year-on-year +11.11% +8.62% -30.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 329 193 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.88% 14.14% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 113 226
10th Percentile £177 £150 £203
25th Percentile £293 £281 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £538
90th Percentile £602 £674 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 26
10th Percentile £25.10 £13.40 £11.88
25th Percentile £35.00 £15.74 £13.63
Median hourly rate £58.00 £24.22 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +139.47% +7.64% +4.37%
75th Percentile £59.50 £35.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £65.80 £40.08 £67.50
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +107.25%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Fibre Channel job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Fibre Channel
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Fibre Channel
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 Fibre Channel within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 March 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
Warwickshire - 1 £413 -
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Storage Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) SAN Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) SAN Storage Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware