Fibre Channel Contracts in the Midlands

Fibre Channel (FC)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 156 199
Rank change year-on-year +39 +43 -42
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 16 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.59% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.45% 0.79% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 6
10th Percentile £299 £353 £338
25th Percentile £300 £357 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £365 £435
Median % change year-on-year +57.53% -16.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £374 £463
90th Percentile £920 £379 £506
England median daily rate £450 £625 £425
% change year-on-year -28.00% +47.06% -2.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 464 505 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.23% 15.38% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 331 390
10th Percentile £200 £248 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £618
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.11% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.13 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

Fibre Channel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Fibre Channel in the Midlands

Fibre Channel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Fibre Channel in the Midlands

Fibre Channel
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Fibre Channel in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Fibre Channel in the Midlands

Fibre Channel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Fibre Channel in the Midlands

Fibre Channel
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
East Midlands - 9 £575 - 2
West Midlands +29 7 £300 -17.81% 1
Fibre Channel
England

Fibre Channel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) SAN
2 8 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) DHCP
3 5 (31.25%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (25.00%) LAN
4 4 (25.00%) WAN
5 2 (12.50%) Firewall
5 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
5 2 (12.50%) NAS
5 2 (12.50%) VPN
5 2 (12.50%) Wireless
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security
6 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Administrator
1 5 (31.25%) Server Administrator
1 5 (31.25%) Storage Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) VMWare Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) EMC Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) EMC Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) HP Storage
2 5 (31.25%) PKI
3 4 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) Linux
3 8 (50.00%) AIX
3 8 (50.00%) Solaris
4 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
5 6 (37.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (25.00%) CentOS
6 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (12.50%) VMS
8 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) ITIL
1 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
2 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
2 5 (31.25%) Statistics
2 5 (31.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Change Control
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 4 (25.00%) QMS
3 4 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Inventory Control
6 1 (6.25%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) PowerShell
2 8 (50.00%) Bash
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) MCSE
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (43.75%) vSphere
3 5 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (31.25%) VMware NSX
3 5 (31.25%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (37.50%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (37.50%) NetBackup
3 5 (31.25%) vCenter Server
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Brocade
1 8 (50.00%) Cisco
1 8 (50.00%) EMC
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 6 (37.50%) HP
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle
3 6 (37.50%) Symantec
4 2 (12.50%) Aruba
4 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (12.50%) ProCurve
4 2 (12.50%) Synology
4 2 (12.50%) Veeam
4 2 (12.50%) Zerto