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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 463 457
Rank change year-on-year -70 -6 +95
Contract jobs citing VSAN 100 47 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.35% 1.37% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 24 62
10th Percentile £358 £497 £383
25th Percentile £472 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £643 £600 £556
90th Percentile £705 £655 £611
UK median daily rate £565 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +2.73% +7.32% +3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £84.52 - -
25th Percentile £94.10 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £99.41 - -
UK median hourly rate £98.82 - -

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 4,250 3,433 4,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.47% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,141 2,650
10th Percentile £263 £235 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 163 305
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.27
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.68% +8.98% -8.24%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -41 34 £605 +10.00% 5
London -59 22 £525 -12.50% 4
South West -30 18 £697 +3.19% 8
North of England -64 11 £519 - 3
North West -48 9 £427 - 1
East of England -18 6 £433 -21.36%
Midlands -49 5 £294 -19.38%
West Midlands -58 4 £294 -19.38%
Yorkshire - 2 £519 - 2
East Midlands -12 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 (4.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) CMS
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.00%) AWS
2 25 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (4.00%) Azure Stack
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.00%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.00%) Datadog
6 2 (2.00%) GitHub
6 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.00%) Firewall
2 16 (16.00%) TCP/IP
3 15 (15.00%) DHCP
3 15 (15.00%) DNS
4 10 (10.00%) VLAN
5 6 (6.00%) VPN
6 5 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (5.00%) Network Security
6 5 (5.00%) SAN
7 4 (4.00%) BGP
7 4 (4.00%) NAS
8 3 (3.00%) OSPF
8 3 (3.00%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (1.00%) FCoE
9 1 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.00%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.00%) GitLab
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (14.00%) Finance
2 13 (13.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.00%) Retail
4 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Advertising
6 2 (2.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (28.00%) Senior
2 27 (27.00%) VMware Engineer
3 20 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (19.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 13 (13.00%) Consultant
6 11 (11.00%) Architect
7 9 (9.00%) Network Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) VMware Consultant
7 9 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Analyst
8 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (6.00%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Storage Analyst
9 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
9 6 (6.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) NOC Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) Flash
2 1 (1.00%) REST
2 1 (1.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (17.00%) PKI
3 15 (15.00%) Replication
4 12 (12.00%) Public Cloud
5 11 (11.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (9.00%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (6.00%) Clustering
7 6 (6.00%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.00%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.00%) EMC VNX
10 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.00%) Symmetrix
10 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (44.00%) Linux
2 33 (33.00%) Windows
3 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.00%) VMS
5 5 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.00%) Unix
6 4 (4.00%) SUSE
7 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (22.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 21 (21.00%) Migration
4 20 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 20 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (19.00%) SIEM
5 19 (19.00%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (17.00%) DevSecOps
7 15 (15.00%) Converged Infrastructure
7 15 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (12.00%) Agile
8 12 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
9 11 (11.00%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.00%) Customer Requirements
9 11 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (11.00%) High Availability
9 11 (11.00%) ITIL
9 11 (11.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 19 (19.00%) Python
3 17 (17.00%) Bash
4 1 (1.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (62.00%) Security Cleared
2 38 (38.00%) DV Cleared
3 36 (36.00%) SC Cleared
4 30 (30.00%) VCAP
5 27 (27.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.00%) CCNP
7 5 (5.00%) CCSE
7 5 (5.00%) CCSM
8 3 (3.00%) Degree
9 2 (2.00%) NCDA
9 2 (2.00%) NCIE
10 1 (1.00%) CCNA
10 1 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) NCSC
1 6 (6.00%) NIST
2 5 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 83 (83.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (70.00%) VMware NSX
3 64 (64.00%) vSphere
4 56 (56.00%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (18.00%) Hyper-V
6 16 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (15.00%) Active Directory
8 11 (11.00%) Docker
9 8 (8.00%) NFS
10 6 (6.00%) GPFS
11 3 (3.00%) Firmware
11 3 (3.00%) SRDF
12 2 (2.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 44 (44.00%) vCenter Server
2 30 (30.00%) VxRail
3 27 (27.00%) Ansible
4 22 (22.00%) Kubernetes
4 22 (22.00%) Terraform
5 16 (16.00%) vRealize
6 11 (11.00%) PowerCLI
7 4 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.00%) Grafana
8 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.00%) WSUS
9 2 (2.00%) Argo
9 2 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.00%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.00%) SnapMirror
9 2 (2.00%) SnapVault
9 2 (2.00%) vMotion
10 1 (1.00%) Avamar
Vendors
1 99 (99.00%) VMware
2 23 (23.00%) Cisco
3 15 (15.00%) Broadcom
4 10 (10.00%) Dell
4 10 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 9 (9.00%) Microsoft
6 6 (6.00%) IBM
6 6 (6.00%) Oracle
6 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.00%) CheckPoint
7 5 (5.00%) Fortinet
7 5 (5.00%) Pure Storage
7 5 (5.00%) Veeam
8 4 (4.00%) NVIDIA
9 3 (3.00%) Brocade
9 3 (3.00%) CyberArk
9 3 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.00%) Thales
9 3 (3.00%) Zerto
10 2 (2.00%) EMC