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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 426 487
Rank change year-on-year -69 +61 +63
Contract jobs citing VSAN 83 41 55
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.12% 1.32% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 37
10th Percentile £316 £500 £416
25th Percentile £456 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +16.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £638
90th Percentile £663 £661 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 - -

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 3,912 3,107 4,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 12.96% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 1,935 2,876
10th Percentile £263 £214 £210
25th Percentile £400 £361 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.19%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £488
% change year-on-year +4.06% -1.44% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 114 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.25 £37.07 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -7.32% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.25 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +116.22%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -44 28 £525 -12.50% 5
South East -46 22 £610 +5.17% 6
Midlands - 11 £315 - 2
North of England -61 10 £519 - 2
North West -35 9 £427 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £305 - 1
South West -32 2 £505 -25.19% 2
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England -32 1 £350 -36.36% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £519 - 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 (6.02%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.30%) AWS
2 19 (22.89%) Azure
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (4.82%) Azure Stack
4 4 (4.82%) Datadog
4 4 (4.82%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.20%) GitHub
5 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) VLAN
2 4 (4.82%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (4.82%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (4.82%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (4.82%) Firewall
2 4 (4.82%) Network Security
2 4 (4.82%) SAN
2 4 (4.82%) VPN
3 3 (3.61%) NAS
4 2 (2.41%) Calico
4 2 (2.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.41%) DNS
4 2 (2.41%) VXLAN
4 2 (2.41%) WAN
5 1 (1.20%) BGP
5 1 (1.20%) DMZ
5 1 (1.20%) H.323
5 1 (1.20%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.20%) LAN
5 1 (1.20%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 20 (24.10%) Finance
2 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.02%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.82%) Retail
5 3 (3.61%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Advertising
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) VMware Engineer
2 18 (21.69%) Senior
3 15 (18.07%) Architect
4 13 (15.66%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Analyst
5 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 10 (12.05%) Consultant
7 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Storage Analyst
8 6 (7.23%) Technical Architect
8 6 (7.23%) VMware Consultant
9 5 (6.02%) Network Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) VMware Architect
10 4 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) NOC Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Senior Technical Architect
11 3 (3.61%) Server Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) Flash
2 1 (1.20%) REST
2 1 (1.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.89%) Replication
2 14 (16.87%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (13.25%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (7.23%) Clustering
6 5 (6.02%) PKI
6 5 (6.02%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.41%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.41%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (1.20%) EMC VNX
9 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.20%) Symmetrix
9 1 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.96%) Linux
2 19 (22.89%) Windows
3 8 (9.64%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.23%) VMS
5 5 (6.02%) Ubuntu
5 5 (6.02%) Unix
6 4 (4.82%) SUSE
7 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.30%) Migration
2 12 (14.46%) Agile
3 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (12.05%) ITIL
4 9 (10.84%) CI/CD
4 9 (10.84%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (10.84%) Storage Management
4 9 (10.84%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 8 (9.64%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (9.64%) Ticket Management
6 7 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (8.43%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (8.43%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (7.23%) Change Management
7 6 (7.23%) High Availability
7 6 (7.23%) Validation
7 6 (7.23%) Virtual Environments
8 5 (6.02%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.25%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.02%) Python
3 3 (3.61%) Bash
4 2 (2.41%) C
5 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.10%) SC Cleared
3 18 (21.69%) DV Cleared
4 16 (19.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (15.66%) VCAP
6 6 (7.23%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.82%) CCNP
7 4 (4.82%) CCSE
7 4 (4.82%) CCSM
7 4 (4.82%) Degree
8 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.41%) VCDX
10 1 (1.20%) CCNA
10 1 (1.20%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.20%) NCDA
10 1 (1.20%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) NCSC
1 6 (7.23%) NIST
2 5 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.82%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 61 (73.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (71.08%) vSphere
3 51 (61.45%) VMware NSX
4 41 (49.40%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (18.07%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (10.84%) NFS
7 8 (9.64%) GPFS
8 7 (8.43%) Hyper-V
9 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
9 3 (3.61%) Firmware
9 3 (3.61%) SRDF
10 2 (2.41%) vCloud
11 1 (1.20%) Docker
11 1 (1.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 25 (30.12%) vCenter Server
2 19 (22.89%) VxRail
3 17 (20.48%) vRealize
4 10 (12.05%) Ansible
5 9 (10.84%) PowerCLI
6 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
7 4 (4.82%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (4.82%) Terraform
8 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.61%) WSUS
9 2 (2.41%) Grafana
9 2 (2.41%) Istio
9 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.41%) vMotion
10 1 (1.20%) Argo
10 1 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (1.20%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (1.20%) SnapMirror
10 1 (1.20%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 82 (98.80%) VMware
2 27 (32.53%) Cisco
3 16 (19.28%) Dell
4 11 (13.25%) IBM
5 10 (12.05%) Broadcom
6 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
6 9 (10.84%) Palo Alto
7 8 (9.64%) Oracle
7 8 (9.64%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.82%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.82%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.82%) NVIDIA
8 4 (4.82%) Pure Storage
8 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.82%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.61%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.61%) Commvault
9 3 (3.61%) HP
9 3 (3.61%) Veeam
10 2 (2.41%) Zerto