Fibre Channel Contracts in England

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 629 749
Rank change year-on-year +117 +120 -144
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 28 26 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.053% 0.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 0.43% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 31
10th Percentile £299 £367 £350
25th Percentile £350 £534 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £613 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +44.12% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £749 £456
90th Percentile £600 £788 £530
UK median daily rate £469 £596 £425
% change year-on-year -21.35% +40.24% +3.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,862 5,986 7,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 12.20% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,936 3,911 5,113
10th Percentile £207 £235 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 431 301
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.90 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in England

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Midlands +47 16 £575 +57.53% 3
South East +24 9 £388 -47.10% 3
East Midlands - 9 £575 - 1
West Midlands +25 7 £300 -17.81% 2
London +79 2 £488 -18.75% 2
North of England +29 1 £250 -35.48% 2
Yorkshire +19 1 £250 -35.48% 2
Fibre Channel
UK

Fibre Channel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (10.71%) IIS
3 3 (10.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.71%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.57%) AWS
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (89.29%) SAN
2 11 (39.29%) DNS
3 9 (32.14%) Firewall
3 9 (32.14%) VPN
4 8 (28.57%) iSCSI
5 7 (25.00%) NAS
6 6 (21.43%) DHCP
6 6 (21.43%) LAN
6 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
7 5 (17.86%) Remote Desktop
7 5 (17.86%) WAN
8 4 (14.29%) SSL
8 4 (14.29%) VLAN
8 4 (14.29%) VoIP
8 4 (14.29%) Wireless
9 2 (7.14%) Network Security
10 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (3.57%) MPLS
10 1 (3.57%) Multicast
10 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Server Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) VMWare Administrator
4 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Backup Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Unix Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Unix Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) HP Storage
2 5 (17.86%) PKI
3 4 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
4 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (10.71%) Replication
5 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (82.14%) Linux
2 21 (75.00%) Windows
3 10 (35.71%) Solaris
3 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (28.57%) AIX
5 7 (25.00%) Ubuntu
6 6 (21.43%) Unix
7 4 (14.29%) CentOS
7 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (10.71%) VMS
8 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) ITIL
3 7 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (21.43%) Change Management
4 6 (21.43%) Patch Management
4 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.86%) Load Balancing
5 5 (17.86%) Statistics
5 5 (17.86%) Storage Management
6 4 (14.29%) Change Control
6 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
6 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (14.29%) QMS
6 4 (14.29%) Quality Management
6 4 (14.29%) Security Management
6 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (28.57%) Bash
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) AWK
4 2 (7.14%) Bourne shell
4 2 (7.14%) Korn
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) Python
5 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) MCSE
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (14.29%) CCNA
4 4 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) RHCE
6 2 (7.14%) RHCSA
7 1 (3.57%) CCIE
7 1 (3.57%) CCNP
7 1 (3.57%) MCSA
7 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) vSphere
2 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (39.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (21.43%) VMware NSX
4 5 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (17.86%) VMware Server
5 4 (14.29%) Firmware
6 1 (3.57%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 6 (21.43%) HP Data Protector
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (17.86%) SCCM
3 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
4 3 (10.71%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 2 (7.14%) yum
6 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.57%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) VxRail
6 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (53.57%) VMware
3 11 (39.29%) EMC
4 10 (35.71%) Cisco
5 9 (32.14%) Brocade
6 6 (21.43%) HP
6 6 (21.43%) Oracle
6 6 (21.43%) Symantec
7 3 (10.71%) Aruba
7 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
7 3 (10.71%) ProCurve
7 3 (10.71%) Synology
7 3 (10.71%) Veeam
7 3 (10.71%) Zerto
8 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
8 2 (7.14%) Veritas
9 1 (3.57%) Citrix
9 1 (3.57%) Dell
9 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds