VSAN Contract Job Trends in England

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VSAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 431 484
Rank change year-on-year -79 +53 +70
Contract jobs citing VSAN 89 43 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.22% 1.38% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 26 39
10th Percentile £318 £500 £416
25th Percentile £456 £535 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.00% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £625
90th Percentile £658 £661 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £78.48 - -
25th Percentile £81.44 - -
Median hourly rate £87.75 - -
75th Percentile £93.94 - -
90th Percentile £96.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

VSAN 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,009 3,119 4,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 13.04% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 1,949 2,922
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 118 390
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.66 £16.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.07
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.18% -0.85% +118.16%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VSAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

VSAN job vacancy trend in England

VSAN
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VSAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VSAN

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in England

VSAN
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VSAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VSAN

VSAN
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VSAN in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VSAN in England

VSAN
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 VSAN within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
London -58 29 £525 -12.50% 4
South East -38 27 £605 +5.22% 3
North of England -63 11 £519 -
Midlands - 10 £315 -
North West -25 9 £427 -
West Midlands - 8 £305 -
South West -35 2 £505 -25.19% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £519 -
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
East of England -32 1 £350 -36.36% 1
VSAN
UK

VSAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.62%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) AWS
2 22 (24.72%) Azure
3 5 (5.62%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.62%) OpenShift
4 4 (4.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.49%) Azure Stack
4 4 (4.49%) Datadog
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) VLAN
2 5 (5.62%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (5.62%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (5.62%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (5.62%) SAN
3 4 (4.49%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) NAS
3 4 (4.49%) Network Security
3 4 (4.49%) VPN
4 2 (2.25%) Calico
4 2 (2.25%) DHCP
4 2 (2.25%) DNS
4 2 (2.25%) VXLAN
4 2 (2.25%) WAN
5 1 (1.12%) BGP
5 1 (1.12%) DMZ
5 1 (1.12%) FCoE
5 1 (1.12%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.12%) LAN
5 1 (1.12%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (4.49%) GitLab
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 21 (23.60%) Finance
2 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.62%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.62%) Retail
4 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Advertising
6 1 (1.12%) Legal
6 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.97%) VMware Engineer
2 20 (22.47%) Senior
3 16 (17.98%) Architect
4 14 (15.73%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) Analyst
6 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 10 (11.24%) Consultant
8 9 (10.11%) Storage Analyst
9 6 (6.74%) Network Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Technical Architect
9 6 (6.74%) VMware Consultant
9 6 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) NOC Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) VMware Architect
11 4 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.24%) Flash
2 2 (2.25%) REST
3 1 (1.12%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Replication
2 14 (15.73%) Data Centre
3 13 (14.61%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (12.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.74%) Clustering
5 6 (6.74%) Private Cloud
5 6 (6.74%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.62%) PKI
7 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.37%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.25%) EMC VNX
9 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.25%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (1.12%) Symmetrix
10 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (38.20%) Linux
2 20 (22.47%) Windows
3 8 (8.99%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.74%) VMS
5 5 (5.62%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.62%) Unix
6 4 (4.49%) SUSE
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.09%) Migration
2 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (12.36%) Agile
3 11 (12.36%) CI/CD
3 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (12.36%) ITIL
3 11 (12.36%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (11.24%) Storage Management
5 9 (10.11%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (10.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 8 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (8.99%) High Availability
6 8 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (8.99%) Ticket Management
7 7 (7.87%) Change Management
7 7 (7.87%) Knowledge Transfer
7 7 (7.87%) Load Balancing
7 7 (7.87%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (7.87%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (7.87%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.48%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.87%) Python
3 4 (4.49%) Bash
4 2 (2.25%) C
5 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (40.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.84%) SC Cleared
3 22 (24.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 19 (21.35%) DV Cleared
5 17 (19.10%) VCAP
6 7 (7.87%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.62%) CCNP
7 5 (5.62%) CCSE
7 5 (5.62%) CCSM
8 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.37%) Degree
9 2 (2.25%) NCDA
9 2 (2.25%) NCIE
9 2 (2.25%) VCDX
10 1 (1.12%) CCNA
10 1 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) NCSC
1 6 (6.74%) NIST
2 5 (5.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.62%) SLA
3 1 (1.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (75.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (68.54%) vSphere
3 56 (62.92%) VMware NSX
4 48 (53.93%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (16.85%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (11.24%) NFS
7 8 (8.99%) GPFS
7 8 (8.99%) Hyper-V
8 4 (4.49%) SRDF
9 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
9 3 (3.37%) Firmware
10 2 (2.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.25%) vCloud
11 1 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (34.83%) vCenter Server
2 18 (20.22%) VxRail
3 16 (17.98%) vRealize
4 12 (13.48%) Ansible
5 10 (11.24%) Kubernetes
5 10 (11.24%) PowerCLI
6 6 (6.74%) Terraform
7 4 (4.49%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.37%) Grafana
8 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.37%) WSUS
9 2 (2.25%) Argo
9 2 (2.25%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.25%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.25%) Istio
9 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.25%) SnapMirror
9 2 (2.25%) SnapVault
9 2 (2.25%) vMotion
Vendors
1 88 (98.88%) VMware
2 28 (31.46%) Cisco
3 16 (17.98%) Dell
4 12 (13.48%) Broadcom
5 10 (11.24%) IBM
5 10 (11.24%) Palo Alto
6 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
7 8 (8.99%) Oracle
7 8 (8.99%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.62%) CheckPoint
8 5 (5.62%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.62%) Pure Storage
8 5 (5.62%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.49%) NVIDIA
9 4 (4.49%) SolarWinds
9 4 (4.49%) Veeam
10 3 (3.37%) Brocade
10 3 (3.37%) EMC
10 3 (3.37%) NetApp
11 2 (2.25%) Commvault