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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 473 538
Rank change year-on-year +16 +65 +130
Contract jobs citing VSAN 44 60 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.34% 1.52% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 50 44
10th Percentile £500 £359 £367
25th Percentile £509 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £481
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% +7.66% -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £556 £588
90th Percentile £659 £563 £631
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £455
% change year-on-year +6.16% +13.76% -13.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.75
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £70.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00

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 3,293 3,936 5,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,057 2,306 3,599
10th Percentile £230 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 218 280
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.47 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.84 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +36.12%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VSAN 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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
South East +29 17 £550 +10.00% 6
London +21 12 £575 +29.21% 4
South West +7 8 £581 +8.14% 4
North of England -14 3 - - 5
North West -14 3 - - 3
Midlands - 2 £365 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £365 -
VSAN
UK

VSAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (9.09%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.55%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.27%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Route 53
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) DNS
2 8 (18.18%) Firewall
3 7 (15.91%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (13.64%) SAN
5 4 (9.09%) BGP
5 4 (9.09%) DHCP
5 4 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (9.09%) IPv6
5 4 (9.09%) iSCSI
5 4 (9.09%) OSPF
5 4 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (9.09%) TACACS
5 4 (9.09%) VLAN
5 4 (9.09%) VPN
5 4 (9.09%) WAN
6 3 (6.82%) Skype
7 2 (4.55%) NAS
7 2 (4.55%) PCoIP
8 1 (2.27%) LAN
8 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.82%) Billing
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.55%) French Language
5 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Architect
2 8 (18.18%) Consultant
3 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) VMware Architect
4 5 (11.36%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.55%) VMware Specialist
8 1 (2.27%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Architect
8 1 (2.27%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) ModSecurity
2 2 (4.55%) YAML
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.64%) PKI
3 5 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (11.36%) Replication
4 4 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.82%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Clustering
7 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
2 12 (27.27%) Linux
3 8 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
5 5 (11.36%) Ubuntu
6 4 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (9.09%) Windows 10
6 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (6.82%) CentOS
7 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.27%) SUSE
8 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.91%) Migration
2 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (13.64%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
3 5 (11.36%) Runbook
4 4 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (9.09%) High Availability
4 4 (9.09%) ITIL
4 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
5 3 (6.82%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (6.82%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (6.82%) Data Protection
5 3 (6.82%) Design Patterns
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps
5 3 (6.82%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (6.82%) Project Delivery
5 3 (6.82%) Security Hardening
5 3 (6.82%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (4.55%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) Python
3 1 (2.27%) Bash
3 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.82%) DV Cleared
3 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 8 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (9.09%) VCDX
6 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.82%) VCAP
7 2 (4.55%) CCNP
7 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.55%) MCSE
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.27%) CCDP
8 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.27%) Degree
8 1 (2.27%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (70.45%) vSphere
2 26 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (56.82%) VMware NSX
4 21 (47.73%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (20.45%) Active Directory
6 6 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (9.09%) Ceph
8 2 (4.55%) Firmware
8 2 (4.55%) NFS
9 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (2.27%) KVM
9 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) vCenter Server
2 8 (18.18%) VxRail
3 7 (15.91%) PowerCLI
4 5 (11.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (11.36%) vRealize
5 4 (9.09%) Ansible
5 4 (9.09%) OPNET
6 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
7 2 (4.55%) Argo
7 2 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.55%) Terraform
8 1 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (2.27%) Istio
8 1 (2.27%) Nessus
8 1 (2.27%) Puppet
8 1 (2.27%) SCCM
8 1 (2.27%) vMotion
8 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (90.91%) VMware
2 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (18.18%) Dell
4 6 (13.64%) NetApp
4 6 (13.64%) Red Hat
5 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 5 (11.36%) Veeam
6 3 (6.82%) Infoblox
7 2 (4.55%) EMC
7 2 (4.55%) Splunk
8 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.27%) IBM
8 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.27%) Wind River
8 1 (2.27%) Zerto