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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 454 517
Rank change year-on-year -41 +63 +105
Contract jobs citing VSAN 50 65 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.45% 1.71% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 36
10th Percentile £306 £393 £338
25th Percentile £406 £469 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +3.37% -3.70%
75th Percentile £613 £558 £591
90th Percentile £664 £611 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £510
% change year-on-year +2.33% +5.39% -5.56%

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 3,447 3,793 5,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 12.15% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,223 2,205 3,531
10th Percentile £213 £237 £213
25th Percentile £361 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £687 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 133 324
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £23.77
Median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.21
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% -18.18% +30.49%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -2 17 £550 +8.78% 4
Midlands - 12 £314 - 1
West Midlands - 11 £314 - 1
London +8 10 £575 +17.95% 3
North of England -42 6 - - 1
North West -17 4 - - 1
South West -16 3 £613 +13.95% 4
Yorkshire -38 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 7 (14.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) Anypoint
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Datadog
4 5 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.00%) Route 53
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) DNS
2 6 (12.00%) Firewall
3 5 (10.00%) DHCP
3 5 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (8.00%) iSCSI
4 4 (8.00%) PCoIP
4 4 (8.00%) SAN
4 4 (8.00%) VLAN
4 4 (8.00%) VPN
4 4 (8.00%) WAN
5 3 (6.00%) BGP
5 3 (6.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (6.00%) Skype
6 2 (4.00%) IPv6
6 2 (4.00%) NAS
6 2 (4.00%) Network Security
6 2 (4.00%) OSPF
6 2 (4.00%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (4.00%) TACACS
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Finance
6 2 (4.00%) French Language
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Architect
2 9 (18.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Consultant
4 7 (14.00%) VMware Architect
4 7 (14.00%) VMware Consultant
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Storage Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Specialist
8 2 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.00%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 10 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (12.00%) PKI
3 4 (8.00%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.00%) Replication
4 3 (6.00%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Clustering
6 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
6 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.00%) Linux
2 13 (26.00%) Windows
3 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 5 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.00%) CentOS
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.00%) SUSE
7 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.00%) Migration
3 9 (18.00%) Agile
4 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (8.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (8.00%) High Availability
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (6.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (6.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (6.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.00%) ITIL
7 3 (6.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (6.00%) Security Architecture
7 3 (6.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) SQL
2 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) VBA
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) VCDX
5 4 (8.00%) VCAP
6 3 (6.00%) CCNP
6 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.00%) Degree
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.00%) MCSE
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.00%) CCDP
8 1 (2.00%) CISSP
8 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (76.00%) vSphere
2 33 (66.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (46.00%) VMware NSX
4 16 (32.00%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (8.00%) NFS
8 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (6.00%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (4.00%) Ceph
9 2 (4.00%) Docker
9 2 (4.00%) Firmware
10 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
10 1 (2.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) vCenter Server
2 14 (28.00%) VxRail
3 10 (20.00%) vRealize
4 6 (12.00%) Ansible
4 6 (12.00%) PowerCLI
5 5 (10.00%) Terraform
6 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
7 3 (6.00%) OPNET
8 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (2.00%) Argo
9 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
9 1 (2.00%) Grafana
9 1 (2.00%) Podman
9 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
9 1 (2.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 48 (96.00%) VMware
2 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (30.00%) Dell
4 14 (28.00%) Cisco
5 10 (20.00%) IBM
6 9 (18.00%) AppDynamics
6 9 (18.00%) Commvault
6 9 (18.00%) SolarWinds
7 7 (14.00%) HP
7 7 (14.00%) NetApp
8 5 (10.00%) Red Hat
8 5 (10.00%) Veeam
9 3 (6.00%) Splunk
10 2 (4.00%) EMC
10 2 (4.00%) F5
10 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
11 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
11 1 (2.00%) NetScout
11 1 (2.00%) Zerto