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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 453 496
Rank change year-on-year -53 +43 +79
Contract jobs citing VSAN 49 42 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.47% 1.22% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 34
10th Percentile £305 £500 £426
25th Percentile £345 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £668
90th Percentile £672 £682 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -4.55%
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 3,340 3,455 5,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.45% 12.84% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,011 3,200
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.15%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 332
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.93 £24.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +132.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +134.16%

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 17 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 17 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 - 16 £313 -
West Midlands - 15 £311 -
South East -24 11 £550 -11.29% 6
London -20 8 £660 +20.00% 6
North of England -60 5 £370 -33.63% 1
South West -14 3 £613 -9.26% 1
North West -23 3 £370 - 1
Yorkshire -52 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 - - 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 (18.37%) Confluence
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.08%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.04%) JBoss
4 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 15 (30.61%) Azure
3 12 (24.49%) Datadog
4 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.12%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) PCoIP
3 3 (6.12%) DNS
3 3 (6.12%) Network Security
3 3 (6.12%) Skype
4 2 (4.08%) Calico
4 2 (4.08%) DHCP
4 2 (4.08%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.08%) iSCSI
4 2 (4.08%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (4.08%) VXLAN
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (2.04%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.04%) SSL
5 1 (2.04%) VPN
5 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) GitLab
General
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 6 (12.24%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Architect
2 14 (28.57%) Analyst
3 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (16.33%) VMware Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Storage Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.12%) Senior
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.12%) VMware Specialist
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Specialist
8 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Principal Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Principal Consultant
9 1 (2.04%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) Flash
1 2 (4.08%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 6 (12.24%) Private Cloud
4 5 (10.20%) PKI
4 5 (10.20%) Replication
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.12%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.08%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (2.04%) Fat Client
7 1 (2.04%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (2.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.86%) Linux
2 10 (20.41%) Windows
3 6 (12.24%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.20%) Windows 10
4 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.04%) Solaris
7 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Agile
2 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (18.37%) Migration
4 8 (16.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.24%) Decision-Making
6 6 (12.24%) Roadmaps
6 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (10.20%) ITIL
8 4 (8.16%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (8.16%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (8.16%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (6.12%) Design Patterns
9 3 (6.12%) DevOps
9 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (6.12%) Thought Leadership
9 3 (6.12%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.08%) Bash
3 2 (4.08%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) VBA
4 1 (2.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.20%) VCAP
4 5 (10.20%) VCDX
5 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (8.16%) Degree
6 2 (4.08%) CCNP
6 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.08%) MCSE
6 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CCIE
7 1 (2.04%) CCSM
7 1 (2.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) NCSC
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (81.63%) vSphere
2 33 (67.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (48.98%) VMware NSX
4 16 (32.65%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (12.24%) NFS
6 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
6 3 (6.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.08%) Docker
7 2 (4.08%) GPFS
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.04%) Firmware
8 1 (2.04%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 16 (32.65%) VxRail
2 15 (30.61%) vRealize
3 12 (24.49%) vCenter Server
4 5 (10.20%) Ansible
5 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
6 3 (6.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (6.12%) OPNET
6 3 (6.12%) Terraform
7 2 (4.08%) Istio
8 1 (2.04%) Argo
8 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.04%) Grafana
8 1 (2.04%) Podman
8 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.04%) SCCM
8 1 (2.04%) SCOM
8 1 (2.04%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (38.78%) Cisco
3 16 (32.65%) Dell
4 15 (30.61%) IBM
5 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
6 12 (24.49%) AppDynamics
6 12 (24.49%) Commvault
6 12 (24.49%) SolarWinds
7 10 (20.41%) HP
8 5 (10.20%) Red Hat
9 4 (8.16%) NetApp
9 4 (8.16%) Veeam
10 3 (6.12%) Oracle
10 3 (6.12%) Palo Alto
10 3 (6.12%) Splunk
11 2 (4.08%) Arista
11 2 (4.08%) EMC
11 2 (4.08%) F5
11 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
11 2 (4.08%) Wind River