Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VSAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VSAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 823 909 1152
Rank change year-on-year +86 +243 -366
Permanent jobs citing VSAN 73 61 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.058% 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.38% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 56 50 69
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,733 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £58,125 £67,375 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -8.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VSAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Salary trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +128 71 £52,500 - 12
UK excluding London +29 63 £52,500 - 9
South West +36 40 £52,500 -8.70% 1
Work from Home +97 31 £52,500 - 4
East of England +18 8 £30,000 -42.86% 3
North of England +32 7 £52,500 - 3
Midlands +6 7 £43,227 -13.55% 2
North West -6 7 £52,500 - 3
London +128 6 £55,500 +3.26% 3
West Midlands +27 5 £43,227 - 1
South East +26 2 £53,750 -
East Midlands -17 2 £35,000 -30.00% 1
Yorkshire +90 1 £75,000 +30.43%

VSAN
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 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (17.81%) AWS
3 12 (16.44%) Azure
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.37%) CloudFront
4 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.37%) GitHub
4 1 (1.37%) IaaS
4 1 (1.37%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.37%) SaaS
4 1 (1.37%) Serverless
4 1 (1.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.29%) DNS
2 16 (21.92%) DHCP
3 11 (15.07%) Firewall
3 11 (15.07%) WAN
4 9 (12.33%) LAN
5 8 (10.96%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.48%) RTP
7 3 (4.11%) Internet
7 3 (4.11%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (4.11%) SAN
8 2 (2.74%) NAS
8 2 (2.74%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (1.37%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.37%) ISDN
9 1 (1.37%) MPLS
9 1 (1.37%) PBX
9 1 (1.37%) SNMP
9 1 (1.37%) VPN
9 1 (1.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.11%) MySQL
3 2 (2.74%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 10 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.96%) Aerospace
4 5 (6.85%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.48%) Police
6 3 (4.11%) Games
6 3 (4.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.74%) Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Electronics
8 1 (1.37%) Finance
8 1 (1.37%) French Language
8 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) Systems Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Administrator
2 14 (19.18%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (12.33%) Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) IT Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) Systems Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) VMWare Administrator
5 7 (9.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
6 6 (8.22%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (8.22%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Server Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Virtualisation Administrator
8 4 (5.48%) Project Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) XMPP
2 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.37%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.55%) Data Centre
2 12 (16.44%) PKI
3 8 (10.96%) Clustering
3 8 (10.96%) Operational Technology
4 6 (8.22%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.48%) Driving Licence
5 4 (5.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) CCTV
7 1 (1.37%) FlexPod
7 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Replication
7 1 (1.37%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 34 (46.58%) Windows
2 33 (45.21%) Windows Server
3 32 (43.84%) Linux
4 10 (13.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (12.33%) Windows 10
5 9 (12.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (9.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (8.22%) Debian
8 1 (1.37%) CentOS
8 1 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.37%) Unix
8 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.29%) ITIL
2 15 (20.55%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (19.18%) Agile
3 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (13.70%) Customer Service
5 9 (12.33%) Change Management
5 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.96%) Actionable Insight
6 8 (10.96%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (10.96%) Line Management
6 8 (10.96%) RBAC
6 8 (10.96%) Security Hardening
6 8 (10.96%) Time Management
6 8 (10.96%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 6 (8.22%) Tech Ops
8 5 (6.85%) Containerisation
9 4 (5.48%) Converged Infrastructure
9 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 4 (5.48%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.51%) Python
2 17 (23.29%) Bash
3 11 (15.07%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.33%) SQL
5 5 (6.85%) Java
6 4 (5.48%) C#
7 1 (1.37%) C
7 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (45.21%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) A+ Certification
3 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.22%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.48%) MCSA
6 3 (4.11%) HND
7 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.74%) Degree
8 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (87.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 54 (73.97%) vSphere
3 31 (42.47%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (39.73%) Active Directory
5 25 (34.25%) Hyper-V
6 9 (12.33%) VMware NSX
7 5 (6.85%) Docker
8 3 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.37%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.37%) pfSense
9 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (28.77%) vCenter Server
2 17 (23.29%) Ansible
2 17 (23.29%) Puppet
3 9 (12.33%) McAfee ePO
4 8 (10.96%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (10.96%) SCVMM
5 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
5 5 (6.85%) SCCM
6 4 (5.48%) Podman
7 3 (4.11%) FortiGate
7 3 (4.11%) VxRail
8 1 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.37%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (94.52%) VMware
2 20 (27.40%) HP
3 19 (26.03%) Microsoft
4 15 (20.55%) Dell
5 13 (17.81%) Cisco
6 9 (12.33%) McAfee
7 8 (10.96%) NetApp
8 6 (8.22%) Veeam
9 4 (5.48%) Juniper
10 3 (4.11%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (4.11%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.74%) BT
11 2 (2.74%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.74%) Commvault
11 2 (2.74%) Palo Alto
12 1 (1.37%) Mitel
12 1 (1.37%) QNAP
12 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 1 (1.37%) SAP
12 1 (1.37%) Ubiquiti