Fibre Channel Contracts

Fibre Channel (FC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fibre Channel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fibre Channel over the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 591 766
Rank change year-on-year +49 +175 +47
Contract jobs citing Fibre Channel 15 32 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.068% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.34% 0.49% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 36
10th Percentile £413 £398 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £444
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +29.58% +4.41%
75th Percentile £516 £637 £578
90th Percentile £529 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £575 £425
% change year-on-year -17.39% +35.29% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,351 6,571 9,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.06% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,513 4,092 6,369
10th Percentile £225 £213 £230
25th Percentile £375 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 343 364
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.72 £15.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.88 £18.45
Median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +31.74% +89.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.67 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -11.49% +25.53% +125.00%

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
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 7 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 17 November 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 +24 12 £475 -17.39% 2
England +57 10 £475 -17.39% 2
Work from Home +78 9 £484 -15.83%
Scotland +20 5 £475 -23.54%
South West - 5 £475 - 1
London +50 3 - -
South East +37 2 £463 -19.57% 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 3 (20.00%) SAS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) OpenShift
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 5 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) LAN
4 2 (13.33%) MPLS
4 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (6.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
General
1 2 (13.33%) Banking
1 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
1 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Administrator
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (26.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) Flash
2 3 (20.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (20.00%) NVMe
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Unix
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (13.33%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) OO
2 5 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 5 (33.33%) SDLC
2 5 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 5 (33.33%) Storage Virtualisation
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Observability
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) Perl
4 4 (26.67%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (13.33%) MCSE
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.67%) MCSA
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (33.33%) NFS
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (13.33%) GPFS
5 2 (13.33%) XenApp
5 2 (13.33%) XenDesktop
6 1 (6.67%) SRDF
6 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 2 (13.33%) Backup Exec
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
5 1 (6.67%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) EMC
2 5 (33.33%) Veritas
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) Google
3 4 (26.67%) IBM
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) NetApp
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (20.00%) Brocade
5 2 (13.33%) Apple
5 2 (13.33%) Citrix
5 2 (13.33%) McAfee
5 2 (13.33%) Sybase