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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 430 485
Rank change year-on-year -56 +55 +74
Contract jobs citing VSAN 85 42 62
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.27% 1.30% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 25 41
10th Percentile £306 £538 -
25th Percentile £431 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £661 £650
90th Percentile £660 £697 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +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 £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 3,740 3,226 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.96% 13.29% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,395 2,011 3,161
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £381 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £492 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +0.41% +3.16% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 119 374
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.83 £13.90
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £39.50 £36.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -8.75% +110.53%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +7.69% +69.71%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -28 26 £525 -12.50% 7
South East -50 19 £600 -4.62% 6
Midlands - 19 £316 - 1
West Midlands - 17 £314 -
North of England -55 11 £538 - 5
North West - 9 £538 - 5
South West -29 2 £505 -25.19% 1
Yorkshire -53 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England -32 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 (10.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.18%) JBoss
3 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.76%) Azure
2 26 (30.59%) AWS
3 12 (14.12%) Datadog
4 5 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.71%) Azure Stack
6 3 (3.53%) GCP
7 2 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Firewall
2 6 (7.06%) Network Security
2 6 (7.06%) VLAN
3 4 (4.71%) VPN
4 3 (3.53%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (3.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (3.53%) SAN
4 3 (3.53%) VXLAN
5 2 (2.35%) BGP
5 2 (2.35%) Calico
5 2 (2.35%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.35%) DMZ
5 2 (2.35%) DNS
5 2 (2.35%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (2.35%) NAS
5 2 (2.35%) PCoIP
5 2 (2.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.18%) DHCP
6 1 (1.18%) SSL
6 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) GitLab
2 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.82%) Finance
3 6 (7.06%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.35%) Retail
8 1 (1.18%) Advertising
8 1 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Architect
2 17 (20.00%) Analyst
3 16 (18.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 14 (16.47%) Senior
4 14 (16.47%) VMware Engineer
5 13 (15.29%) Consultant
6 9 (10.59%) VMware Consultant
7 8 (9.41%) Storage Analyst
8 7 (8.24%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Migration Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Senior Architect
10 5 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) VMware Architect
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
12 3 (3.53%) Senior Technical Architect
12 3 (3.53%) Server Engineer
13 2 (2.35%) NOC Engineer
13 2 (2.35%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) Flash
2 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (16.47%) Replication
3 10 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (10.59%) Data Centre
5 7 (8.24%) PKI
6 6 (7.06%) Clustering
7 5 (5.88%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.35%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (1.18%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.18%) Fat Client
10 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.18%) RSA SecurID
10 1 (1.18%) Symmetrix
10 1 (1.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 38 (44.71%) Linux
2 18 (21.18%) Windows
3 8 (9.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (9.41%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.06%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.06%) VMS
5 4 (4.71%) SUSE
6 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.35%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.18%) Solaris
8 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Migration
2 18 (21.18%) Agile
3 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (10.59%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (10.59%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (9.41%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (9.41%) Mentoring
7 7 (8.24%) ITIL
7 7 (8.24%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (7.06%) Decision-Making
8 6 (7.06%) High Availability
8 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (7.06%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (7.06%) Validation
9 5 (5.88%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.12%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.88%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) Bash
4 2 (2.35%) C
4 2 (2.35%) SQL
5 1 (1.18%) Perl
5 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.82%) SC Cleared
2 16 (18.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 13 (15.29%) DV Cleared
4 12 (14.12%) VCAP
5 5 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.88%) Degree
6 4 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.71%) CCNP
7 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.53%) CCSM
7 3 (3.53%) VCDX
8 2 (2.35%) CCSE
9 1 (1.18%) CCIE
9 1 (1.18%) CCNA
9 1 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (1.18%) CISSP
9 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) NCSC
1 6 (7.06%) NIST
2 4 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.35%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 62 (72.94%) vSphere
2 60 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (58.82%) VMware NSX
4 30 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (15.29%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (7.06%) NFS
7 4 (4.71%) GPFS
7 4 (4.71%) Hyper-V
8 3 (3.53%) Docker
8 3 (3.53%) Firmware
9 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
9 2 (2.35%) SRDF
9 2 (2.35%) vCloud
9 2 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (29.41%) VxRail
2 23 (27.06%) vCenter Server
3 20 (23.53%) vRealize
4 12 (14.12%) Ansible
5 7 (8.24%) PowerCLI
6 6 (7.06%) Terraform
7 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
8 4 (4.71%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (3.53%) WSUS
10 2 (2.35%) Istio
10 2 (2.35%) vMotion
11 1 (1.18%) EMC TimeFinder
11 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (1.18%) Grafana
11 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.18%) SCCM
11 1 (1.18%) SCOM
11 1 (1.18%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 84 (98.82%) VMware
2 31 (36.47%) Cisco
3 25 (29.41%) Dell
4 17 (20.00%) IBM
5 12 (14.12%) AppDynamics
5 12 (14.12%) Commvault
5 12 (14.12%) SolarWinds
6 10 (11.76%) HP
6 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 10 (11.76%) Palo Alto
7 8 (9.41%) Broadcom
8 6 (7.06%) Red Hat
9 5 (5.88%) NVIDIA
9 5 (5.88%) Oracle
10 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
11 3 (3.53%) CheckPoint
11 3 (3.53%) Pure Storage
11 3 (3.53%) Veeam
12 2 (2.35%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.35%) Wind River