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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 441 518
Rank change year-on-year -53 +77 +101
Contract jobs citing VSAN 50 66 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 1.74% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 39
10th Percentile £305 £400 £350
25th Percentile £345 £475 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -3.45%
75th Percentile £613 £565 £653
90th Percentile £664 £630 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £520
% change year-on-year +2.33% +3.37% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £96.25 - -
Median hourly rate £97.50 - -
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £88.75 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.16%

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 3,382 3,792 5,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.92% 12.51% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,184 2,204 3,383
10th Percentile £206 £223 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £611
90th Percentile £677 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 129 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.35 £18.51
25th Percentile £20.09 £23.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% -25.45% +25.00%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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
Midlands - 17 £314 -
West Midlands - 15 £313 -
South East -25 13 £550 -1.79% 4
London -17 8 £625 +28.21% 4
North of England -39 7 £370 -32.73%
North West -11 5 £370 -
South West -21 3 £613 +13.95% 1
Yorkshire -43 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
East of England -14 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 9 (18.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.00%) JBoss
3 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) AWS
3 12 (24.00%) Datadog
4 5 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.00%) GCP
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
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%) Route 53
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) DNS
1 7 (14.00%) Firewall
2 5 (10.00%) DHCP
2 5 (10.00%) VLAN
3 4 (8.00%) PCoIP
3 4 (8.00%) VPN
3 4 (8.00%) WAN
4 3 (6.00%) iSCSI
4 3 (6.00%) Skype
5 2 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (4.00%) Network Security
5 2 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (4.00%) SSL
5 2 (4.00%) VXLAN
6 1 (2.00%) BGP
6 1 (2.00%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.00%) DMZ
6 1 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (2.00%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Finance
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) French Language
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Architect
2 13 (26.00%) Analyst
3 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) VMware Architect
5 6 (12.00%) Consultant
5 6 (12.00%) VMware Consultant
6 5 (10.00%) Storage Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Senior
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.00%) VMware Specialist
9 2 (4.00%) Cloud Specialist
9 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) Flash
2 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (22.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (14.00%) PKI
4 6 (12.00%) Replication
5 5 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (8.00%) Private Cloud
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (6.00%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
9 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
9 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 1 (2.00%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
9 1 (2.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.00%) Linux
2 12 (24.00%) Windows
3 8 (16.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.00%) CentOS
7 1 (2.00%) Solaris
7 1 (2.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Agile
2 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (18.00%) Migration
4 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (10.00%) ITIL
7 4 (8.00%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (8.00%) Data Protection
7 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (6.00%) High Availability
8 3 (6.00%) Security Architecture
8 3 (6.00%) Validation
8 3 (6.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) Bash
3 2 (4.00%) VBA
4 1 (2.00%) Perl
4 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) VCDX
5 4 (8.00%) CCNP
5 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (8.00%) VCAP
6 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
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%) CCDP
8 1 (2.00%) CCIE
8 1 (2.00%) CCSM
8 1 (2.00%) CISSP
8 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
2 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 39 (78.00%) vSphere
2 36 (72.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (48.00%) VMware NSX
4 15 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (10.00%) NFS
7 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (6.00%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (4.00%) Docker
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (2.00%) Firmware
9 1 (2.00%) GPFS
9 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
9 1 (2.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) VxRail
2 15 (30.00%) vRealize
3 13 (26.00%) vCenter Server
4 6 (12.00%) Ansible
5 5 (10.00%) Terraform
6 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (6.00%) OPNET
7 3 (6.00%) PowerCLI
8 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
8 2 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (2.00%) Argo
9 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
9 1 (2.00%) Grafana
9 1 (2.00%) Podman
9 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
9 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (2.00%) SCCM
9 1 (2.00%) SCOM
9 1 (2.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 16 (32.00%) Cisco
3 16 (32.00%) Dell
4 14 (28.00%) IBM
5 12 (24.00%) AppDynamics
5 12 (24.00%) Commvault
5 12 (24.00%) SolarWinds
6 10 (20.00%) HP
7 7 (14.00%) NetApp
8 6 (12.00%) Veeam
9 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
10 3 (6.00%) EMC
10 3 (6.00%) Palo Alto
10 3 (6.00%) Splunk
11 2 (4.00%) F5
11 2 (4.00%) Oracle
12 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
12 1 (2.00%) Citrix
12 1 (2.00%) Remedy