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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 453 501
Rank change year-on-year -37 +48 +75
Contract jobs citing VSAN 51 41 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.52% 1.17% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 31
10th Percentile £305 £403 £456
25th Percentile £355 £500 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +4.78%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £671
90th Percentile £671 £674 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £96.25 - -
Median hourly rate £97.50 - -
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.10%

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 3,366 3,500 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.64% 12.80% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,178 2,045 3,127
10th Percentile £205 £220 £207
25th Percentile £358 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +120.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +125.96%

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 7 January 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
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 7 January 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
Midlands - 15 £313 -
West Midlands - 14 £311 -
South East -26 12 £550 -10.93% 5
London -25 10 £660 +32.00% 4
North of England -49 6 £370 -32.73%
North West -22 4 £370 -
South West -2 3 £613 -9.26%
Yorkshire -52 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 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 9 (17.65%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.96%) JBoss
4 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) AWS
3 12 (23.53%) Datadog
4 4 (7.84%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) PCoIP
3 3 (5.88%) DHCP
3 3 (5.88%) Network Security
3 3 (5.88%) Skype
3 3 (5.88%) VPN
3 3 (5.88%) WAN
4 2 (3.92%) Calico
4 2 (3.92%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.92%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (3.92%) VLAN
4 2 (3.92%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.96%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.96%) French Language
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Architect
2 13 (25.49%) Analyst
3 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) VMware Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Consultant
5 5 (9.80%) Storage Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Senior
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.88%) VMware Specialist
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Principal Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.96%) Flash
2 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 6 (11.76%) Private Cloud
4 5 (9.80%) PKI
4 5 (9.80%) Replication
5 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
5 4 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.92%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.96%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (41.18%) Linux
2 11 (21.57%) Windows
3 7 (13.73%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (9.80%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.96%) CentOS
8 1 (1.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Agile
2 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (19.61%) Migration
4 7 (13.73%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
4 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
5 6 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 5 (9.80%) ITIL
7 4 (7.84%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (7.84%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (7.84%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (5.88%) Design Patterns
8 3 (5.88%) DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (5.88%) Observability
8 3 (5.88%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.92%) Bash
3 2 (3.92%) Python
3 2 (3.92%) VBA
4 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) VCDX
5 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
5 5 (9.80%) VCAP
6 4 (7.84%) Degree
7 3 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.88%) CCNP
7 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.92%) MCSE
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.96%) CCIE
9 1 (1.96%) CCSM
9 1 (1.96%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) NCSC
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 42 (82.35%) vSphere
2 35 (68.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (50.98%) VMware NSX
4 15 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (9.80%) NFS
6 3 (5.88%) Active Directory
6 3 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.92%) Docker
7 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.96%) Firmware
8 1 (1.96%) GPFS
8 1 (1.96%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) VxRail
2 14 (27.45%) vRealize
3 12 (23.53%) vCenter Server
4 6 (11.76%) Ansible
5 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.84%) Terraform
6 3 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (5.88%) OPNET
7 2 (3.92%) Istio
8 1 (1.96%) Argo
8 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.96%) Grafana
8 1 (1.96%) Podman
8 1 (1.96%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.96%) SCCM
8 1 (1.96%) SCOM
8 1 (1.96%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (35.29%) Cisco
3 16 (31.37%) Dell
4 14 (27.45%) IBM
4 14 (27.45%) Microsoft
5 12 (23.53%) AppDynamics
5 12 (23.53%) Commvault
5 12 (23.53%) SolarWinds
6 10 (19.61%) HP
7 6 (11.76%) NetApp
7 6 (11.76%) Red Hat
8 4 (7.84%) Veeam
9 3 (5.88%) EMC
9 3 (5.88%) Palo Alto
9 3 (5.88%) Splunk
10 2 (3.92%) Arista
10 2 (3.92%) F5
10 2 (3.92%) Oracle
10 2 (3.92%) Wind River
11 1 (1.96%) Infoblox