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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 438 499
Rank change year-on-year -64 +61 +87
Contract jobs citing VSAN 69 42 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.90% 1.26% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 39
10th Percentile £304 £500 £462
25th Percentile £333 £562 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £606 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +5.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £622 £653 £659
90th Percentile £670 £695 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -20.83% +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 3,641 3,327 5,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.00% 13.50% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,341 2,038 3,226
10th Percentile £205 £210 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £338
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 £487 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 113 377
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.04 £14.26
25th Percentile £20.09 £21.46 £19.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% +110.53%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -38 21 £575 -4.17% 11
Midlands - 19 £316 - 4
West Midlands - 17 £314 - 2
South East -50 12 £575 -8.59% 9
North of England -59 7 £370 - 2
North West -32 5 £370 - 2
South West -23 2 £505 -25.19% 3
Yorkshire -63 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 2
East of England -27 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 10 (14.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) JBoss
3 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (10.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.43%) AWS
2 18 (26.09%) Azure
3 12 (17.39%) Datadog
4 5 (7.25%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.35%) GCP
5 3 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) Network Security
2 3 (4.35%) VXLAN
3 2 (2.90%) BGP
3 2 (2.90%) Calico
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (2.90%) DMZ
3 2 (2.90%) DNS
3 2 (2.90%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (2.90%) PCoIP
3 2 (2.90%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.45%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.45%) DHCP
4 1 (1.45%) FCoE
4 1 (1.45%) SAN
4 1 (1.45%) SSL
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) GitLab
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Banking
7 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Analyst
1 17 (24.64%) Architect
2 16 (23.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 13 (18.84%) Consultant
4 9 (13.04%) Senior
4 9 (13.04%) VMware Consultant
4 9 (13.04%) VMware Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Storage Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) VMware Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.35%) VMware Specialist
9 2 (2.90%) Cloud Specialist
9 2 (2.90%) Principal Architect
9 2 (2.90%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 2 (2.90%) Support Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) Flash
2 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (11.59%) Replication
3 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
4 6 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (7.25%) PKI
5 5 (7.25%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.90%) Clustering
7 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.90%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 1 (1.45%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.45%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.45%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (1.45%) Symmetrix
8 1 (1.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 26 (37.68%) Linux
2 9 (13.04%) Windows
3 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.90%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.45%) Solaris
6 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.09%) Agile
2 14 (20.29%) Migration
3 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
5 8 (11.59%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (10.14%) Mentoring
7 6 (8.70%) Decision-Making
7 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (7.25%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.25%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (7.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 4 (5.80%) Containerisation
9 4 (5.80%) Roadmaps
9 4 (5.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (5.80%) Storage Management
9 4 (5.80%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.35%) Python
3 2 (2.90%) C
3 2 (2.90%) SQL
3 2 (2.90%) VBA
4 1 (1.45%) Bash
4 1 (1.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (11.59%) DV Cleared
5 7 (10.14%) VCAP
6 5 (7.25%) Degree
7 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.80%) VCDX
8 3 (4.35%) CCNP
9 2 (2.90%) CCSM
10 1 (1.45%) CCIE
10 1 (1.45%) CCNA
10 1 (1.45%) CCSE
10 1 (1.45%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.45%) CISSP
10 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) NCSC
1 4 (5.80%) NIST
2 2 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.90%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (78.26%) vSphere
2 44 (63.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (60.87%) VMware NSX
4 17 (24.64%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (8.70%) NFS
6 4 (5.80%) GPFS
7 3 (4.35%) Docker
8 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
8 2 (2.90%) SRDF
8 2 (2.90%) vCloud
8 2 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (27.54%) VxRail
2 18 (26.09%) vRealize
3 13 (18.84%) vCenter Server
4 8 (11.59%) Ansible
5 6 (8.70%) Terraform
6 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.90%) Istio
7 2 (2.90%) PowerCLI
7 2 (2.90%) WSUS
8 1 (1.45%) Argo
8 1 (1.45%) EMC TimeFinder
8 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.45%) Grafana
8 1 (1.45%) Podman
8 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.45%) SCCM
8 1 (1.45%) SCOM
8 1 (1.45%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 68 (98.55%) VMware
2 28 (40.58%) Cisco
3 20 (28.99%) Dell
4 17 (24.64%) IBM
5 12 (17.39%) AppDynamics
5 12 (17.39%) Commvault
5 12 (17.39%) SolarWinds
6 10 (14.49%) HP
7 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
8 7 (10.14%) Palo Alto
9 6 (8.70%) Red Hat
10 5 (7.25%) Broadcom
10 5 (7.25%) Oracle
11 4 (5.80%) NVIDIA
11 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
12 3 (4.35%) Pure Storage
13 2 (2.90%) F5
13 2 (2.90%) Splunk
13 2 (2.90%) Veeam
13 2 (2.90%) Wind River