VSAN Contracts in England

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VSAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAN over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 476 553
Rank change year-on-year +38 +77 +138
Contract jobs citing VSAN 47 66 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 1.32% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 69
10th Percentile £500 - £410
25th Percentile £556 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% +3.26%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £575
90th Percentile £669 £725 £638
UK median daily rate £580 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +10.48% - +12.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £46.54
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £63.00
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year - +15.10% +12.54%

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 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN in England.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in England

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in England

VSAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAN in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +41 20 £615 +23.00% 4
London +35 11 £600 -4.00% 4
South West +31 7 £675 +28.57% 5
East of England - 5 £550 -
North of England +18 3 - - 10
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
North West +16 1 - - 5
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 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.13%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) IaaS
2 8 (17.02%) PaaS
2 8 (17.02%) SaaS
3 7 (14.89%) Azure
4 6 (12.77%) GitHub
5 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
6 4 (8.51%) AWS
7 1 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.13%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.28%) Firewall
2 7 (14.89%) DNS
3 6 (12.77%) Network Security
4 5 (10.64%) BGP
4 5 (10.64%) OSPF
5 4 (8.51%) VPN
6 3 (6.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (6.38%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (6.38%) MPLS
6 3 (6.38%) NGFW
6 3 (6.38%) SAN
6 3 (6.38%) SD-WAN
6 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.38%) VLAN
6 3 (6.38%) WAN
7 2 (4.26%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (4.26%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (4.26%) IPv6
7 2 (4.26%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (4.26%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) GitLab
General
1 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
1 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
2 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Billing
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Architect
2 13 (27.66%) VMware Engineer
3 12 (25.53%) Technical Architect
4 11 (23.40%) Senior
5 10 (21.28%) Senior Architect
5 10 (21.28%) Senior Technical Architect
6 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) VMware Architect
8 3 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) IT Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Security Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Senior VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) Flash
1 2 (4.26%) YAML
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (25.53%) PKI
3 5 (10.64%) Clustering
4 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.38%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.26%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (4.26%) Replication
7 1 (2.13%) Blackberry
7 1 (2.13%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.13%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.13%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Windows
2 8 (17.02%) Linux
3 7 (14.89%) Windows Server
4 6 (12.77%) Windows 10
5 5 (10.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
2 12 (25.53%) DevSecOps
2 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (25.53%) ITIL
2 12 (25.53%) TOGAF
3 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
3 10 (21.28%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (21.28%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (21.28%) Microservices
3 10 (21.28%) Zachman Framework
4 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (19.15%) IT Strategy
4 9 (19.15%) Roadmaps
4 9 (19.15%) Technology Strategy
5 8 (17.02%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (17.02%) Use Case
5 8 (17.02%) Virtual Environments
6 7 (14.89%) Requirements Management
6 7 (14.89%) Strategic Roadmap
7 6 (12.77%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.64%) Python
3 1 (2.13%) C
3 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (65.96%) Security Cleared
2 20 (42.55%) SC Cleared
3 18 (38.30%) DV Cleared
4 17 (36.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (23.40%) MCSE
5 11 (23.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (8.51%) VCAP
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) CCNP
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) NCSC
1 11 (23.40%) NIST
2 10 (21.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (78.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (72.34%) VMware NSX
3 26 (55.32%) vSphere
4 11 (23.40%) Active Directory
5 10 (21.28%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (8.51%) Hyper-V
7 2 (4.26%) Ceph
8 1 (2.13%) NFS
8 1 (2.13%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) vCenter Server
2 8 (17.02%) VxRail
3 6 (12.77%) Ansible
4 5 (10.64%) PowerCLI
4 5 (10.64%) WSUS
5 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
5 4 (8.51%) Norton AntiVirus
5 4 (8.51%) Terraform
5 4 (8.51%) vRealize
6 3 (6.38%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (4.26%) Argo
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.13%) EMC TimeFinder
8 1 (2.13%) Grafana
8 1 (2.13%) Istio
8 1 (2.13%) OPNET
8 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.13%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 45 (95.74%) VMware
2 17 (36.17%) Cisco
3 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
4 12 (25.53%) Palo Alto
5 8 (17.02%) Dell
6 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
7 5 (10.64%) Symantec
8 4 (8.51%) HP
9 3 (6.38%) EMC
9 3 (6.38%) Ericsson
9 3 (6.38%) Infoblox
9 3 (6.38%) Mavenir
9 3 (6.38%) Nokia
10 2 (4.26%) Juniper
10 2 (4.26%) McAfee
10 2 (4.26%) NETGEAR
10 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.26%) TP-LINK
11 1 (2.13%) NetApp
11 1 (2.13%) Veeam