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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 442 483
Rank change year-on-year -65 +41 +71
Contract jobs citing VSAN 84 42 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 1.34% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 25 38
10th Percentile £326 £500 £416
25th Percentile £456 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% +6.49%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £570
90th Percentile £660 £661 £659
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.50 - -
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
75th Percentile £79.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £81.50 - -

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 4,028 3,123 4,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.60% 12.97% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,492 1,954 2,872
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £495
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 122 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +135.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.03 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -30.22% +3.75% +119.30%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -52 29 £525 -12.50% 8
South East -50 27 £605 +5.22% 5
North of England -68 11 £519 - 1
North West -28 9 £427 - 1
Midlands - 6 £294 -
West Midlands - 5 £294 -
South West -34 2 £505 -25.19% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £519 -
East of England -32 1 £350 -36.36% 2
East Midlands - 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 (5.95%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) CMS
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.81%) AWS
1 20 (23.81%) Azure
2 5 (5.95%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (5.95%) OpenShift
3 4 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (4.76%) Azure Stack
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.38%) Azure Storage
4 2 (2.38%) Datadog
4 2 (2.38%) GitHub
4 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) VLAN
2 5 (5.95%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (5.95%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (5.95%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (5.95%) SAN
3 4 (4.76%) Firewall
3 4 (4.76%) NAS
3 4 (4.76%) Network Security
3 4 (4.76%) VPN
4 2 (2.38%) Calico
4 2 (2.38%) DHCP
4 2 (2.38%) DNS
4 2 (2.38%) WAN
5 1 (1.19%) DMZ
5 1 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.19%) FCoE
5 1 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.19%) LAN
5 1 (1.19%) VoIP
5 1 (1.19%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) GitLab
2 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 19 (22.62%) Finance
2 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.95%) Retail
4 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) VMware Engineer
2 20 (23.81%) Senior
3 16 (19.05%) Architect
4 14 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) Consultant
7 8 (9.52%) Analyst
7 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 7 (8.33%) Storage Analyst
9 6 (7.14%) Network Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Technical Architect
9 6 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
10 5 (5.95%) NOC Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) VMware Architect
10 5 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.71%) Flash
2 2 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (1.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Replication
2 13 (15.48%) Data Centre
3 11 (13.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (11.90%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (7.14%) Clustering
5 6 (7.14%) Private Cloud
5 6 (7.14%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) PKI
7 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.57%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.38%) EMC VNX
9 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.19%) Symmetrix
10 1 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.19%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.90%) Linux
2 20 (23.81%) Windows
3 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.14%) VMS
5 5 (5.95%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.95%) Unix
6 4 (4.76%) SUSE
7 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.38%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.57%) Migration
2 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
3 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (13.10%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (10.71%) ITIL
4 9 (10.71%) Storage Management
4 9 (10.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 8 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (9.52%) High Availability
6 7 (8.33%) Agile
6 7 (8.33%) Change Management
6 7 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (8.33%) Load Balancing
6 7 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 7 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (8.33%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.33%) Python
3 4 (4.76%) Bash
4 2 (2.38%) C
5 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.38%) SC Cleared
3 20 (23.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (21.43%) DV Cleared
5 15 (17.86%) VCAP
6 7 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.95%) CCNP
7 5 (5.95%) CCSE
7 5 (5.95%) CCSM
8 3 (3.57%) Degree
9 2 (2.38%) NCDA
9 2 (2.38%) NCIE
10 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.19%) CCNA
10 1 (1.19%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.19%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) NCSC
1 6 (7.14%) NIST
2 5 (5.95%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.95%) SLA
3 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (66.67%) vSphere
3 54 (64.29%) VMware NSX
4 46 (54.76%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (10.71%) NFS
7 8 (9.52%) Hyper-V
8 7 (8.33%) GPFS
9 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
9 3 (3.57%) Firmware
9 3 (3.57%) SRDF
10 2 (2.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.38%) vCloud
11 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) vCenter Server
2 15 (17.86%) VxRail
3 13 (15.48%) vRealize
4 12 (14.29%) Ansible
5 10 (11.90%) Kubernetes
5 10 (11.90%) PowerCLI
6 6 (7.14%) Terraform
7 4 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.57%) Grafana
8 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.57%) WSUS
9 2 (2.38%) Argo
9 2 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.38%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.38%) Istio
9 2 (2.38%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.38%) SnapMirror
9 2 (2.38%) SnapVault
9 2 (2.38%) vMotion
Vendors
1 83 (98.81%) VMware
2 25 (29.76%) Cisco
3 13 (15.48%) Dell
4 12 (14.29%) Broadcom
5 10 (11.90%) Palo Alto
6 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
7 7 (8.33%) IBM
7 7 (8.33%) Oracle
7 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
8 5 (5.95%) CheckPoint
8 5 (5.95%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.95%) Pure Storage
8 5 (5.95%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.76%) NVIDIA
9 4 (4.76%) Veeam
10 3 (3.57%) Brocade
10 3 (3.57%) NetApp
11 2 (2.38%) EMC
11 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.38%) Wind River