VSAN Contracts in England

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VSAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAN over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 485 565
Rank change year-on-year +37 +80 +133
Contract jobs citing VSAN 46 68 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 1.41% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 49 48
10th Percentile £498 £409 £379
25th Percentile £513 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +9.78% -11.13%
75th Percentile £609 £556 £556
90th Percentile £662 £640 £625
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - £61.19
90th Percentile - - £66.63
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +42.49%

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 3,288 4,827 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.73% 12.93% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,880 3,915
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £355 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 393 392
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.67 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%
75th Percentile £64.69 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VSAN in England

VSAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN in England.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in England

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in England

VSAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAN in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 July 2025. 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 +42 15 £600 -2.04% 19
South East +45 13 £575 +15.00% 7
South West +14 7 £675 +28.57% 5
East of England +24 5 £550 +83.33% 1
Midlands - 2 £365 - 2
North West +8 1 - - 5
North of England +7 1 - - 8
West Midlands - 1 £365 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
VSAN
UK

VSAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) GitHub
2 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
3 5 (10.87%) IaaS
4 4 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (4.35%) AWS
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.17%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) Cohesity
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Route 53
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) DNS
2 9 (19.57%) Firewall
3 6 (13.04%) Network Security
3 6 (13.04%) SAN
4 5 (10.87%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (8.70%) BGP
5 4 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (8.70%) IPv6
5 4 (8.70%) OSPF
5 4 (8.70%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (8.70%) TACACS
6 3 (6.52%) VLAN
6 3 (6.52%) VPN
7 2 (4.35%) DHCP
7 2 (4.35%) iSCSI
7 2 (4.35%) WAN
8 1 (2.17%) LAN
8 1 (2.17%) NAS
8 1 (2.17%) Skype
8 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.52%) GitLab
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.52%) Billing
3 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) French Language
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) VMware Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Consultant
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) VMware Architect
6 3 (6.52%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Senior
7 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Flash
1 2 (4.35%) YAML
2 1 (2.17%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Clustering
1 6 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (10.87%) Replication
3 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.70%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Linux
1 12 (26.09%) Windows
2 6 (13.04%) Windows Server
2 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.87%) Windows 10
4 4 (8.70%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (4.35%) CentOS
7 1 (2.17%) SUSE
7 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (19.57%) Network Virtualisation
3 8 (17.39%) Migration
4 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
4 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.22%) Project Delivery
4 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
5 6 (13.04%) High Availability
6 5 (10.87%) Agile
6 5 (10.87%) Runbook
6 5 (10.87%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (8.70%) Power Management
7 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (8.70%) Task Automation
7 4 (8.70%) Zero Trust
8 3 (6.52%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (6.52%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) DV Cleared
3 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
4 10 (21.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (13.04%) VCAP
6 2 (4.35%) VCDX
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.17%) CCDP
7 1 (2.17%) CCNP
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) Degree
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) GDPR
1 1 (2.17%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.17%) NCSC
1 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (73.91%) vSphere
2 29 (63.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (60.87%) VMware NSX
4 15 (32.61%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (28.26%) Active Directory
6 6 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (10.87%) Hyper-V
8 4 (8.70%) Ceph
9 1 (2.17%) Firmware
9 1 (2.17%) KVM
9 1 (2.17%) SRDF
9 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (41.30%) vCenter Server
2 10 (21.74%) VxRail
3 9 (19.57%) PowerCLI
4 7 (15.22%) Ansible
5 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
5 5 (10.87%) vRealize
5 5 (10.87%) WSUS
6 4 (8.70%) Terraform
7 3 (6.52%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (6.52%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (4.35%) Argo
9 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (2.17%) Grafana
9 1 (2.17%) Istio
9 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
9 1 (2.17%) Puppet
9 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (2.17%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (91.30%) VMware
2 12 (26.09%) Dell
3 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
4 8 (17.39%) Red Hat
5 7 (15.22%) Cisco
6 4 (8.70%) Symantec
7 3 (6.52%) HP
7 3 (6.52%) Infoblox
7 3 (6.52%) NetApp
7 3 (6.52%) Veeam
8 2 (4.35%) EMC
8 2 (4.35%) Ericsson
8 2 (4.35%) Juniper
8 2 (4.35%) Mavenir
8 2 (4.35%) NETGEAR
8 2 (4.35%) Nokia
8 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.35%) TP-LINK
9 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
9 1 (2.17%) Pure Storage