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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 452 535
Rank change year-on-year -29 +83 +108
Contract jobs citing VSAN 46 57 46
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.38% 1.49% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 34
10th Percentile £341 £389 £330
25th Percentile £506 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £613 £556 £588
90th Percentile £665 £564 £618
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -9.52%

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 3,335 3,831 5,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 12.13% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,143 2,207 3,548
10th Percentile £213 £236 £213
25th Percentile £360 £380 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £611
90th Percentile £688 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 137 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.21 £17.30
25th Percentile £20.34 £27.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.25 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.61% +1.35% +36.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £56.45
% change year-on-year -27.92% -13.97% +41.11%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +11 17 £550 +10.00% 2
London +3 11 £575 +17.95%
Midlands - 9 £341 - 5
West Midlands - 8 £341 - 4
North West -17 4 - - 2
North of England -34 4 - - 5
South West -5 3 £613 +13.95% 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 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 (10.87%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Datadog
4 5 (10.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.17%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.17%) Route 53
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (10.87%) Firewall
3 4 (8.70%) DHCP
3 4 (8.70%) iSCSI
3 4 (8.70%) PCoIP
3 4 (8.70%) SAN
3 4 (8.70%) VLAN
3 4 (8.70%) VPN
3 4 (8.70%) WAN
4 3 (6.52%) BGP
4 3 (6.52%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (6.52%) Skype
5 2 (4.35%) IPv6
5 2 (4.35%) NAS
5 2 (4.35%) OSPF
5 2 (4.35%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (4.35%) TACACS
6 1 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.52%) Finance
3 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.35%) French Language
4 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Consultant
2 7 (15.22%) VMware Architect
2 7 (15.22%) VMware Consultant
3 6 (13.04%) Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.35%) VMware Specialist
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.17%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.22%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (13.04%) PKI
4 5 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (10.87%) Replication
5 4 (8.70%) Private Cloud
6 3 (6.52%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Clustering
8 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (2.17%) Fat Client
8 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Linux
2 13 (28.26%) Windows
3 8 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 8 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (10.87%) Ubuntu
5 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.70%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.52%) CentOS
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.17%) SUSE
7 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (17.39%) Migration
3 6 (13.04%) Agile
4 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (8.70%) High Availability
5 4 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 3 (6.52%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (6.52%) Data Protection
6 3 (6.52%) Design Patterns
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (6.52%) ITIL
6 3 (6.52%) Mentoring
6 3 (6.52%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (6.52%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (6.52%) Runbook
7 2 (4.35%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (4.35%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) SQL
2 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) VBA
4 1 (2.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (26.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (23.91%) SC Cleared
4 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
5 5 (10.87%) VCAP
5 5 (10.87%) VCDX
6 3 (6.52%) CCNP
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.35%) MCSE
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.17%) CCDP
8 1 (2.17%) CISSP
8 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) NCSC
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (76.09%) vSphere
2 29 (63.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (47.83%) VMware NSX
4 17 (36.96%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
5 6 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.52%) NFS
7 2 (4.35%) Ceph
7 2 (4.35%) Firmware
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.17%) Docker
8 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (2.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) vCenter Server
2 11 (23.91%) VxRail
3 8 (17.39%) vRealize
4 7 (15.22%) PowerCLI
5 4 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (8.70%) Ansible
6 3 (6.52%) OPNET
6 3 (6.52%) Terraform
7 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
7 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.17%) Grafana
8 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.17%) vMotion
Vendors
1 44 (95.65%) VMware
2 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (26.09%) Dell
4 9 (19.57%) Cisco
5 7 (15.22%) IBM
6 6 (13.04%) AppDynamics
6 6 (13.04%) Commvault
6 6 (13.04%) NetApp
6 6 (13.04%) SolarWinds
6 6 (13.04%) Veeam
7 4 (8.70%) HP
8 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
8 3 (6.52%) Splunk
9 2 (4.35%) EMC
10 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
10 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA
10 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.17%) Zerto