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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 424 476
Rank change year-on-year -85 +52 +105
Contract jobs citing VSAN 86 48 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.25% 1.50% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 28 43
10th Percentile £305 £544 -
25th Percentile £411 £570 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +10.23% +7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £659
90th Percentile £660 £692 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £78.48 - -
25th Percentile £81.44 - -
Median hourly rate £87.75 - -
75th Percentile £93.94 - -
90th Percentile £96.83 - -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.10%

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 3,824 3,190 5,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.78% 13.10% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 2,006 3,157
10th Percentile £225 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £480
% change year-on-year +2.56% +1.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 120 390
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.64 £17.69
Median hourly rate £46.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.13% +1.32% +100.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £68.77
UK median hourly rate £43.85 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +16.94% - +97.37%

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 9 April 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VSAN in England over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 April 2026. 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
London -44 26 £513 -14.58% 7
Midlands - 19 £313 - 1
South East -52 18 £605 -3.05% 6
West Midlands - 17 £311 -
North of England -61 13 £528 - 5
North West -22 10 £538 - 5
Yorkshire -54 3 £519 -
South West -31 2 £505 -25.19% 1
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England -39 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 8 (9.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.16%) JBoss
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.56%) Azure
2 27 (31.40%) AWS
3 13 (15.12%) Datadog
4 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Stack
7 3 (3.49%) GCP
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.16%) GitHub
9 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) VLAN
2 6 (6.98%) Firewall
3 5 (5.81%) Network Security
4 4 (4.65%) SAN
4 4 (4.65%) VPN
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (3.49%) DNS
5 3 (3.49%) NAS
6 2 (2.33%) Calico
6 2 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.33%) DHCP
6 2 (2.33%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.16%) FCoE
7 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.16%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) GitLab
2 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Finance
3 6 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.16%) Advertising
8 1 (1.16%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Analyst
2 17 (19.77%) Architect
2 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 15 (17.44%) VMware Engineer
4 13 (15.12%) Consultant
4 13 (15.12%) Senior
5 9 (10.47%) Storage Analyst
5 9 (10.47%) VMware Consultant
6 8 (9.30%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) VMware Architect
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.49%) Senior Technical Architect
11 3 (3.49%) Server Engineer
12 2 (2.33%) Network Engineer
12 2 (2.33%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) Flash
2 1 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (23.26%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (18.60%) Replication
3 10 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (10.47%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.98%) Clustering
5 6 (6.98%) PKI
6 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.65%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.33%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.33%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (1.16%) EMC VNX
9 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.16%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (1.16%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 39 (45.35%) Linux
2 19 (22.09%) Windows
3 8 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (9.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.98%) VMS
5 5 (5.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.65%) SUSE
7 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.33%) Unix
8 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
9 1 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.07%) Migration
2 19 (22.09%) Agile
3 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (12.79%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (12.79%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (9.30%) ITIL
6 8 (9.30%) Mentoring
6 8 (9.30%) Storage Management
7 7 (8.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (8.14%) High Availability
7 7 (8.14%) Knowledge Transfer
7 7 (8.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (6.98%) Decision-Making
8 6 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.28%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.81%) Python
3 4 (4.65%) Bash
4 2 (2.33%) C
5 1 (1.16%) Perl
5 1 (1.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
2 15 (17.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (16.28%) DV Cleared
4 12 (13.95%) VCAP
5 6 (6.98%) Degree
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.49%) CCNP
7 3 (3.49%) CCSM
7 3 (3.49%) VCDX
8 2 (2.33%) CCSE
9 1 (1.16%) CCIE
9 1 (1.16%) CCNA
9 1 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.16%) NCDA
9 1 (1.16%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) NCSC
1 5 (5.81%) NIST
2 4 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (74.42%) vSphere
2 62 (72.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (56.98%) VMware NSX
4 32 (37.21%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (17.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (9.30%) NFS
7 6 (6.98%) Hyper-V
8 5 (5.81%) GPFS
9 3 (3.49%) Firmware
9 3 (3.49%) SRDF
10 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
10 2 (2.33%) Docker
10 2 (2.33%) vCloud
10 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 25 (29.07%) VxRail
2 23 (26.74%) vCenter Server
3 21 (24.42%) vRealize
4 13 (15.12%) Ansible
5 9 (10.47%) PowerCLI
6 6 (6.98%) Terraform
7 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
8 4 (4.65%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (3.49%) WSUS
10 2 (2.33%) Argo
10 2 (2.33%) Istio
10 2 (2.33%) vMotion
11 1 (1.16%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.16%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (1.16%) Grafana
11 1 (1.16%) Podman
11 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.16%) SnapMirror
11 1 (1.16%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 85 (98.84%) VMware
2 33 (38.37%) Cisco
3 25 (29.07%) Dell
4 18 (20.93%) IBM
5 13 (15.12%) SolarWinds
6 12 (13.95%) AppDynamics
6 12 (13.95%) Commvault
7 10 (11.63%) HP
8 9 (10.47%) Palo Alto
9 8 (9.30%) Broadcom
9 8 (9.30%) Microsoft
10 7 (8.14%) Red Hat
11 6 (6.98%) Oracle
12 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
13 4 (4.65%) NVIDIA
13 4 (4.65%) Pure Storage
13 4 (4.65%) Veeam
14 3 (3.49%) CheckPoint
14 3 (3.49%) NetApp
15 2 (2.33%) Brocade