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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 633 797
Rank change year-on-year +91 +164 -109
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 33 49 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.087% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 0.69% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 29
10th Percentile £299 £397 £358
25th Percentile £350 £456 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +41.18% -
75th Percentile £588 £650 £488
90th Percentile £673 £772 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £592 £438
% change year-on-year -23.99% +35.31% +2.94%

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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +26 30 £450 -23.99% 6
England +92 28 £450 -26.53% 7
Midlands +35 16 £575 +57.53%
South East +11 10 £400 -45.39% 3
East Midlands - 9 £575 -
Work from Home +104 7 £540 -6.09% 4
West Midlands +17 7 £300 -17.81%
Scotland +13 3 £693 +26.00%
London +88 1 £488 -18.75% 1
North of England +23 1 £250 -35.48% 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £250 -35.48% 1

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 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.09%) SAS
2 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.06%) IIS
3 2 (6.06%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) OneDrive
4 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 29 (87.88%) SAN
2 10 (30.30%) DNS
2 10 (30.30%) iSCSI
3 8 (24.24%) Firewall
3 8 (24.24%) VPN
4 6 (18.18%) DHCP
4 6 (18.18%) LAN
4 6 (18.18%) NAS
4 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 5 (15.15%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (15.15%) WAN
6 4 (12.12%) SSL
6 4 (12.12%) VLAN
6 4 (12.12%) VoIP
7 3 (9.09%) Wireless
8 2 (6.06%) Network Security
9 1 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (3.03%) MPLS
9 1 (3.03%) Multicast
9 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) DB2
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Administrator
2 7 (21.21%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Server Administrator
3 5 (15.15%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (9.09%) Backup Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Unix Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Flash
1 3 (9.09%) POSIX
2 2 (6.06%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 6 (18.18%) HP Storage
2 5 (15.15%) PKI
3 4 (12.12%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (12.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.09%) NVMe
4 3 (9.09%) Replication
5 2 (6.06%) Client/Server
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (84.85%) Linux
2 25 (75.76%) Windows
3 11 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 10 (30.30%) Solaris
5 8 (24.24%) AIX
5 8 (24.24%) Unix
6 7 (21.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (18.18%) Ubuntu
8 4 (12.12%) CentOS
9 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (6.06%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (6.06%) VMS
10 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) ITIL
1 9 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (27.27%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 8 (24.24%) Storage Management
3 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (21.21%) Project Delivery
4 6 (18.18%) Change Management
4 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 6 (18.18%) Patch Management
4 6 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (15.15%) Data Protection
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (15.15%) Load Balancing
5 5 (15.15%) Statistics
6 4 (12.12%) Change Control
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (12.12%) Migration
6 4 (12.12%) QMS
6 4 (12.12%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 8 (24.24%) Bash
2 8 (24.24%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) Perl
4 4 (12.12%) Python
5 3 (9.09%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) AWK
6 2 (6.06%) Bourne shell
6 2 (6.06%) Korn
6 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) MCSE
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (15.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (12.12%) CCNA
6 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (6.06%) RHCE
7 2 (6.06%) RHCSA
8 1 (3.03%) CCIE
8 1 (3.03%) CCNP
8 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (3.03%) MCSA
8 1 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (3.03%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (36.36%) vSphere
3 10 (30.30%) Active Directory
4 6 (18.18%) VMware NSX
5 5 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (15.15%) VMware Server
6 4 (12.12%) Firmware
7 3 (9.09%) NFS
8 2 (6.06%) Docker
8 2 (6.06%) GPFS
9 1 (3.03%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) EMC NetWorker
1 8 (24.24%) NetBackup
2 6 (18.18%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.12%) SCCM
3 4 (12.12%) Terraform
4 3 (9.09%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Puppet
5 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (6.06%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 2 (6.06%) yum
6 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.03%) Backup Exec
6 1 (3.03%) VxRail
6 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 17 (51.52%) VMware
3 14 (42.42%) EMC
4 13 (39.39%) Brocade
5 11 (33.33%) Cisco
6 6 (18.18%) HP
6 6 (18.18%) Oracle
6 6 (18.18%) Symantec
7 5 (15.15%) Veritas
8 2 (6.06%) Aruba
8 2 (6.06%) Google
8 2 (6.06%) IBM
8 2 (6.06%) NetApp
8 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.06%) ProCurve
8 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
8 2 (6.06%) Sybase
8 2 (6.06%) Synology
8 2 (6.06%) Veeam
8 2 (6.06%) Zerto