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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 459 451
Rank change year-on-year -44 -8 +111
Contract jobs citing VSAN 106 49 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.48% 1.43% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 27 62
10th Percentile £360 £498 £383
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +9.78%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £556
90th Percentile £730 £665 £611
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% +3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £75.00 - -
25th Percentile £76.13 - -
Median hourly rate £95.68 - -
75th Percentile £98.82 - -
90th Percentile £99.17 - -
UK median hourly rate £95.68 - -

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 4,275 3,435 4,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 12.45% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,590 2,138 2,568
10th Percentile £263 £250 £241
25th Percentile £401 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 162 289
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.44
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.94 £44.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.21% -18.91% +5.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £47.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.34% - -5.79%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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
South East -46 34 £605 +10.00% 5
London -65 23 £525 -12.50% 9
South West -22 21 £698 +14.00% 8
North of England -65 13 £519 - 1
North West -35 9 £427 - 1
East of England -20 6 £433 -21.36% 1
Midlands -54 4 £263 -27.99%
Yorkshire - 4 £519 -
West Midlands -60 3 £263 -27.99%
East Midlands -13 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 4 (3.77%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.96%) AWS
2 27 (25.47%) Azure
3 5 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (4.72%) Azure Stack
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.83%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.89%) Datadog
6 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.89%) GitHub
6 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.89%) OCI
7 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 21 (19.81%) Firewall
2 17 (16.04%) TCP/IP
3 16 (15.09%) DHCP
3 16 (15.09%) DNS
4 10 (9.43%) VLAN
5 6 (5.66%) VPN
6 5 (4.72%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (4.72%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (4.72%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (4.72%) Network Security
6 5 (4.72%) SAN
7 4 (3.77%) BGP
7 4 (3.77%) NAS
8 3 (2.83%) OSPF
8 3 (2.83%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.94%) DMZ
9 1 (0.94%) FCoE
9 1 (0.94%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.94%) H.323
9 1 (0.94%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (14.15%) Finance
2 13 (12.26%) Public Sector
2 13 (12.26%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.66%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.66%) Retail
4 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Advertising
6 2 (1.89%) Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Legal
7 1 (0.94%) Local Government
7 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (29.25%) Senior
2 27 (25.47%) VMware Engineer
3 20 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (17.92%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 15 (14.15%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (13.21%) Consultant
7 11 (10.38%) Architect
8 10 (9.43%) VMware Consultant
9 9 (8.49%) Network Engineer
9 9 (8.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (7.55%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Analyst
11 6 (5.66%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Storage Analyst
11 6 (5.66%) Technical Architect
11 6 (5.66%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) NOC Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) Flash
2 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.94%) REST
2 1 (0.94%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.47%) Data Centre
2 18 (16.98%) PKI
3 15 (14.15%) Public Cloud
3 15 (14.15%) Replication
4 13 (12.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (8.49%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (6.60%) Clustering
7 6 (5.66%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.83%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.89%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.94%) Symmetrix
10 1 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (44.34%) Linux
2 37 (34.91%) Windows
3 9 (8.49%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.66%) VMS
5 5 (4.72%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.72%) Unix
6 4 (3.77%) SUSE
7 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
1 26 (24.53%) Platform Engineering
2 24 (22.64%) Migration
2 24 (22.64%) Network Virtualisation
3 23 (21.70%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (18.87%) CI/CD
5 20 (18.87%) SIEM
6 18 (16.98%) DevSecOps
6 18 (16.98%) Mentoring
7 16 (15.09%) Converged Infrastructure
8 13 (12.26%) Systems Engineering
9 12 (11.32%) Agile
9 12 (11.32%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (10.38%) Containerisation
10 11 (10.38%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (10.38%) High Availability
10 11 (10.38%) ITIL
10 11 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.42%) PowerShell
2 20 (18.87%) Python
3 18 (16.98%) Bash
4 1 (0.94%) Bicep
4 1 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (62.26%) Security Cleared
2 41 (38.68%) DV Cleared
3 37 (34.91%) SC Cleared
4 31 (29.25%) VCAP
5 27 (25.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (5.66%) AWS Certification
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.72%) CCNP
8 5 (4.72%) CCSE
8 5 (4.72%) CCSM
9 3 (2.83%) Degree
10 2 (1.89%) NCDA
10 2 (1.89%) NCIE
11 1 (0.94%) CCNA
11 1 (0.94%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) NCSC
1 6 (5.66%) NIST
2 5 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.72%) SLA
3 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
System Software
1 87 (82.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (71.70%) VMware NSX
3 68 (64.15%) vSphere
4 57 (53.77%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (17.92%) Hyper-V
5 19 (17.92%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (15.09%) Active Directory
7 11 (10.38%) Docker
8 8 (7.55%) NFS
9 6 (5.66%) GPFS
10 3 (2.83%) Firmware
10 3 (2.83%) SRDF
11 2 (1.89%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (44.34%) vCenter Server
2 31 (29.25%) VxRail
3 30 (28.30%) Ansible
4 27 (25.47%) Terraform
5 23 (21.70%) Kubernetes
6 15 (14.15%) vRealize
7 11 (10.38%) PowerCLI
8 5 (4.72%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (2.83%) Grafana
9 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.83%) vMotion
9 3 (2.83%) WSUS
10 2 (1.89%) Argo
10 2 (1.89%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.89%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.89%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.89%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.89%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 105 (99.06%) VMware
2 22 (20.75%) Cisco
3 15 (14.15%) Broadcom
4 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.43%) Palo Alto
5 9 (8.49%) Dell
6 8 (7.55%) Oracle
7 6 (5.66%) IBM
7 6 (5.66%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.72%) CheckPoint
8 5 (4.72%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.72%) Pure Storage
8 5 (4.72%) Veeam
9 4 (3.77%) NVIDIA
10 3 (2.83%) Brocade
10 3 (2.83%) CyberArk
10 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.83%) Thales
10 3 (2.83%) Zerto
11 2 (1.89%) EMC