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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 461 452
Rank change year-on-year -60 -9 +94
Contract jobs citing VSAN 104 46 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.41% 1.37% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 24 62
10th Percentile £370 £497 £383
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +9.78%
75th Percentile £656 £597 £556
90th Percentile £780 £667 £574
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £506
% change year-on-year +9.09% +8.78% +1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £75.00 - -
25th Percentile £83.77 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £99.29 - -
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 4,310 3,362 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.44% 12.20% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,606 2,083 2,545
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £504
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.38% +0.80%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £614
90th Percentile £687 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 169 277
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.23
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.75 £43.50 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -20.73% -1.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -12.35%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -45 32 £600 +9.09% 4
South West -30 27 £698 +14.00% 2
London -75 19 £525 -14.29% 3
North of England -66 13 £519 - 1
North West -36 9 £427 - 1
East of England -13 6 £433 -21.36% 1
Midlands -47 4 £263 -27.99% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £519 -
West Midlands -49 3 £263 -27.99% 1
East Midlands -18 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 4 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) AWS
2 27 (25.96%) Azure
3 6 (5.77%) Azure Stack
4 5 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.92%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.92%) Datadog
7 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub
7 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.92%) OCI
7 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (22.12%) Firewall
2 21 (20.19%) DNS
3 18 (17.31%) TCP/IP
4 17 (16.35%) DHCP
5 10 (9.62%) VLAN
6 6 (5.77%) VPN
7 5 (4.81%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (4.81%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (4.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (4.81%) Network Security
8 4 (3.85%) BGP
8 4 (3.85%) NAS
8 4 (3.85%) SAN
9 3 (2.88%) OSPF
9 3 (2.88%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.96%) DMZ
10 1 (0.96%) H.323
10 1 (0.96%) LAN
10 1 (0.96%) VoIP
10 1 (0.96%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) GitLab
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
2 12 (11.54%) Finance
2 12 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.77%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.77%) Retail
4 5 (4.81%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Advertising
6 2 (1.92%) Banking
6 2 (1.92%) Local Government
7 1 (0.96%) Legal
7 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) Senior
2 26 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
3 20 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (18.27%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 17 (16.35%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Consultant
6 10 (9.62%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) Architect
7 9 (8.65%) Network Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Analyst
9 6 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Storage Analyst
9 6 (5.77%) VMware Consultant
10 5 (4.81%) NOC Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (30.77%) Terraform
2 8 (7.69%) Flash
3 1 (0.96%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.96%) REST
3 1 (0.96%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (16.35%) PKI
3 15 (14.42%) Public Cloud
4 14 (13.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (13.46%) Replication
5 9 (8.65%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (7.69%) Clustering
7 6 (5.77%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.92%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.92%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (44.23%) Linux
2 39 (37.50%) Windows
3 10 (9.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.77%) VMS
5 5 (4.81%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.81%) Unix
6 4 (3.85%) SUSE
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (27.88%) Platform Engineering
3 24 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
4 23 (22.12%) Technical Leadership
5 22 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (20.19%) Migration
6 21 (20.19%) SIEM
7 20 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 19 (18.27%) Mentoring
9 17 (16.35%) Converged Infrastructure
9 17 (16.35%) DevSecOps
10 16 (15.38%) Agile
11 14 (13.46%) Systems Engineering
12 13 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
13 12 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (11.54%) Load Balancing
13 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (10.58%) ITIL
14 11 (10.58%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (10.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.85%) PowerShell
2 20 (19.23%) Python
3 19 (18.27%) Bash
4 1 (0.96%) Bicep
4 1 (0.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (66.35%) Security Cleared
2 43 (41.35%) DV Cleared
3 38 (36.54%) SC Cleared
4 35 (33.65%) VCAP
5 30 (28.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (6.73%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.81%) CCNP
7 5 (4.81%) CCSE
7 5 (4.81%) CCSM
8 3 (2.88%) Degree
9 2 (1.92%) NCDA
9 2 (1.92%) NCIE
10 1 (0.96%) CCNA
10 1 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) SLA
2 4 (3.85%) NCSC
2 4 (3.85%) NIST
3 3 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 91 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 77 (74.04%) VMware NSX
3 69 (66.35%) vSphere
4 62 (59.62%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (19.23%) Hyper-V
5 20 (19.23%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (16.35%) Active Directory
7 11 (10.58%) Docker
8 8 (7.69%) NFS
9 6 (5.77%) GPFS
10 3 (2.88%) Firmware
11 2 (1.92%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (1.92%) SRDF
12 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (48.08%) vCenter Server
2 35 (33.65%) Ansible
3 33 (31.73%) VxRail
4 28 (26.92%) Kubernetes
5 15 (14.42%) PowerCLI
5 15 (14.42%) vRealize
6 6 (5.77%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.88%) Grafana
7 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.88%) vMotion
7 3 (2.88%) WSUS
8 2 (1.92%) Argo
8 2 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.92%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (1.92%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.92%) SnapMirror
8 2 (1.92%) SnapVault
9 1 (0.96%) Avamar
9 1 (0.96%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 104 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (18.27%) Cisco
3 11 (10.58%) Broadcom
4 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.69%) Dell
5 8 (7.69%) Oracle
5 8 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.77%) IBM
6 6 (5.77%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.81%) CheckPoint
7 5 (4.81%) Fortinet
7 5 (4.81%) Veeam
8 4 (3.85%) NVIDIA
8 4 (3.85%) SaltStack
9 3 (2.88%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.88%) Thales
9 3 (2.88%) Zerto
10 2 (1.92%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds