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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 436 481
Rank change year-on-year -67 +45 +74
Contract jobs citing VSAN 82 49 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% 1.52% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 28 45
10th Percentile £307 £500 -
25th Percentile £456 £556 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £650
90th Percentile £662 £688 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
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 £82.50 - £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 3,773 3,218 5,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 13.09% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,368 2,008 3,080
10th Percentile £235 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +2.56% -0.51% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 123 405
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.64
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.22 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.71 £36.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -8.39% +111.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.38 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.00% -6.25% +110.53%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -34 28 £525 -12.50% 2
South East -52 20 £610 -1.21% 3
Midlands - 13 £308 - 1
North of England -55 11 £528 -
West Midlands - 11 £306 -
North West -29 8 £538 -
Yorkshire -51 3 £519 -
South West -37 2 £505 -25.19%
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England -30 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 (6.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.22%) JBoss
4 1 (1.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) Azure
2 21 (25.61%) AWS
3 7 (8.54%) Datadog
4 6 (7.32%) OpenShift
5 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.88%) Azure Stack
7 3 (3.66%) GCP
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub
9 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) VLAN
2 6 (7.32%) Firewall
3 5 (6.10%) Network Security
4 4 (4.88%) DNS
4 4 (4.88%) SAN
4 4 (4.88%) VPN
5 3 (3.66%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (3.66%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (3.66%) DHCP
5 3 (3.66%) NAS
6 2 (2.44%) Calico
6 2 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.44%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.22%) FCoE
7 1 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.22%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 16 (19.51%) Finance
1 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.44%) Banking
6 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.44%) Retail
7 1 (1.22%) Advertising
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) VMware Engineer
2 17 (20.73%) Architect
3 15 (18.29%) Senior
4 12 (14.63%) Analyst
5 11 (13.41%) Consultant
5 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 10 (12.20%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (9.76%) Storage Analyst
9 7 (8.54%) VMware Consultant
10 5 (6.10%) Migration Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) Technical Architect
10 5 (6.10%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (6.10%) VMware Architect
11 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) Senior Architect
12 3 (3.66%) Senior Technical Architect
12 3 (3.66%) Server Engineer
12 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 2 (2.44%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.54%) Flash
2 1 (1.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Replication
2 14 (17.07%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (12.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (10.98%) Data Centre
5 6 (7.32%) Clustering
5 6 (7.32%) PKI
6 5 (6.10%) Private Cloud
7 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.44%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.44%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (1.22%) EMC VNX
10 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.22%) RSA SecurID
10 1 (1.22%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 33 (40.24%) Linux
2 19 (23.17%) Windows
3 9 (10.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.32%) VMS
6 5 (6.10%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.88%) SUSE
8 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.44%) Unix
10 1 (1.22%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (1.22%) Solaris
10 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.27%) Migration
2 13 (15.85%) Agile
3 10 (12.20%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (12.20%) CI/CD
3 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (12.20%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 9 (10.98%) ITIL
4 9 (10.98%) Storage Management
5 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (8.54%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (8.54%) High Availability
6 7 (8.54%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (8.54%) Mentoring
6 7 (8.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (7.32%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (7.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.85%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.10%) Python
3 4 (4.88%) Bash
4 2 (2.44%) C
5 1 (1.22%) Perl
5 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.73%) DV Cleared
4 16 (19.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (15.85%) VCAP
6 5 (6.10%) Degree
7 4 (4.88%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.66%) CCNP
8 3 (3.66%) CCSM
8 3 (3.66%) VCDX
9 2 (2.44%) CCSE
10 1 (1.22%) CCIE
10 1 (1.22%) CCNA
10 1 (1.22%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.22%) NCDA
10 1 (1.22%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) NCSC
1 5 (6.10%) NIST
2 4 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 60 (73.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (71.95%) vSphere
3 51 (62.20%) VMware NSX
4 36 (43.90%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (18.29%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (8.54%) Hyper-V
6 7 (8.54%) NFS
7 5 (6.10%) GPFS
8 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
8 3 (3.66%) Firmware
8 3 (3.66%) SRDF
9 2 (2.44%) Docker
9 2 (2.44%) vCloud
10 1 (1.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (30.49%) vCenter Server
2 19 (23.17%) VxRail
3 16 (19.51%) vRealize
4 13 (15.85%) Ansible
5 9 (10.98%) PowerCLI
6 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
6 6 (7.32%) Terraform
7 4 (4.88%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.66%) WSUS
9 2 (2.44%) Argo
9 2 (2.44%) Istio
9 2 (2.44%) vMotion
10 1 (1.22%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (1.22%) Grafana
10 1 (1.22%) Podman
10 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.22%) SCOrch
10 1 (1.22%) SnapMirror
10 1 (1.22%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 81 (98.78%) VMware
2 27 (32.93%) Cisco
3 19 (23.17%) Dell
4 12 (14.63%) IBM
5 10 (12.20%) Broadcom
6 9 (10.98%) Palo Alto
7 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
7 7 (8.54%) Red Hat
7 7 (8.54%) SolarWinds
8 6 (7.32%) AppDynamics
8 6 (7.32%) Commvault
8 6 (7.32%) HP
8 6 (7.32%) Oracle
9 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.88%) NVIDIA
10 4 (4.88%) Pure Storage
10 4 (4.88%) Veeam
11 3 (3.66%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.66%) NetApp
12 2 (2.44%) EMC