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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 439 508
Rank change year-on-year -64 +69 +69
Contract jobs citing VSAN 51 38 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 1.13% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 33
10th Percentile £303 £500 £457
25th Percentile £314 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £613 £661 £675
90th Percentile £670 £703 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -22.76% +6.96% +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 3,530 3,368 5,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.29% 13.14% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,287 1,971 3,156
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 96 378
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.42
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.30 £20.87
Median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% -31.58% +137.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -31.58% +141.24%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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
Midlands - 17 £314 - 1
West Midlands - 16 £313 - 1
London -32 12 £618 +2.92% 8
South East -33 10 £550 -12.56% 7
North of England -58 5 £370 - 3
North West -26 3 £370 - 2
Yorkshire -51 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 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 9 (17.65%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.96%) JBoss
3 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (31.37%) AWS
2 15 (29.41%) Azure
3 12 (23.53%) Datadog
4 5 (9.80%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) PCoIP
2 3 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) iSCSI
2 3 (5.88%) Network Security
3 2 (3.92%) Calico
3 2 (3.92%) DNS
3 2 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (3.92%) VXLAN
4 1 (1.96%) BGP
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.96%) DHCP
4 1 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.96%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.96%) SSL
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Banking
6 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Architect
2 15 (29.41%) Analyst
3 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (15.69%) VMware Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Consultant
5 6 (11.76%) Storage Analyst
5 6 (11.76%) VMware Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.88%) VMware Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Principal Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Support Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Network Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Flash
2 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (11.76%) Replication
3 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.92%) PKI
5 2 (3.92%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (1.96%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) RSA SecurID
6 1 (1.96%) Symmetrix
6 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.96%) Solaris
5 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Agile
2 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (19.61%) Migration
4 9 (17.65%) Knowledge Transfer
5 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
6 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (7.84%) Capacity Planning
8 4 (7.84%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (5.88%) Containerisation
9 3 (5.88%) DevOps
9 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.88%) ITIL
9 3 (5.88%) Observability
9 3 (5.88%) Storage Management
9 3 (5.88%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.88%) Python
2 3 (5.88%) SQL
3 2 (3.92%) C
3 2 (3.92%) VBA
4 1 (1.96%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (9.80%) VCAP
3 5 (9.80%) VCDX
4 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.84%) Degree
4 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) CCNP
5 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.92%) MCSE
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.96%) CCIE
6 1 (1.96%) CCSM
6 1 (1.96%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) GDPR
1 1 (1.96%) NCSC
1 1 (1.96%) NIST
1 1 (1.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (88.24%) vSphere
2 32 (62.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (54.90%) VMware NSX
4 12 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (11.76%) NFS
6 3 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
7 2 (3.92%) Docker
7 2 (3.92%) GPFS
7 2 (3.92%) SRDF
7 2 (3.92%) vCloud
7 2 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (31.37%) vRealize
1 16 (31.37%) VxRail
2 9 (17.65%) vCenter Server
3 5 (9.80%) Ansible
4 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.88%) Terraform
6 2 (3.92%) Istio
7 1 (1.96%) Argo
7 1 (1.96%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.96%) Grafana
7 1 (1.96%) Podman
7 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.96%) SCCM
7 1 (1.96%) SCOM
7 1 (1.96%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 50 (98.04%) VMware
2 23 (45.10%) Cisco
3 19 (37.25%) Dell
4 15 (29.41%) IBM
5 12 (23.53%) AppDynamics
5 12 (23.53%) Commvault
5 12 (23.53%) SolarWinds
6 10 (19.61%) HP
7 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 6 (11.76%) Red Hat
9 4 (7.84%) NetApp
9 4 (7.84%) Veeam
10 3 (5.88%) Oracle
10 3 (5.88%) Palo Alto
10 3 (5.88%) Splunk
11 2 (3.92%) Arista
11 2 (3.92%) Broadcom
11 2 (3.92%) F5
11 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
11 2 (3.92%) Wind River