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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 474 465
Rank change year-on-year -79 -9 +76
Contract jobs citing VSAN 89 45 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 1.37% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 25 51
10th Percentile £368 £500 £363
25th Percentile £515 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.59% +6.22%
75th Percentile £668 £613 £556
90th Percentile £800 £658 £563
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £511
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.59% +12.24%
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 4,350 3,291 3,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.83% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,064 2,323
10th Percentile £254 £227 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 165 215
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.28 £14.82
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.00 £23.45
Median hourly rate £43.50 £41.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -27.64% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.63 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year -23.53% -16.67% -9.72%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 West -18 25 £700 +20.43% 8
South East -54 23 £610 +10.91% 5
London -78 14 £563 -2.17% 10
North of England -65 10 £519 - 4
Midlands -44 7 £263 -27.99% 3
West Midlands -44 6 £263 -28.04%
North West -52 6 £427 - 3
East of England - 6 £433 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £519 - 1
East Midlands -14 1 £526 - 3
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 (4.49%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.83%) AWS
2 26 (29.21%) Azure
3 6 (6.74%) Azure Stack
4 4 (4.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.25%) Datadog
6 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.25%) GCP
6 2 (2.25%) GitHub
6 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.25%) OCI
6 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.72%) Firewall
2 21 (23.60%) DNS
3 18 (20.22%) TCP/IP
4 17 (19.10%) DHCP
5 10 (11.24%) VLAN
6 6 (6.74%) VPN
7 5 (5.62%) Network Security
8 4 (4.49%) NAS
8 4 (4.49%) SAN
9 3 (3.37%) BGP
9 3 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (3.37%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (3.37%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (3.37%) OSPF
9 3 (3.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (2.25%) LAN
10 2 (2.25%) WAN
11 1 (1.12%) H.323
11 1 (1.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.12%) GitLab
2 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.99%) Finance
3 7 (7.87%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.49%) Retail
6 2 (2.25%) Advertising
6 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Senior
2 22 (24.72%) VMware Engineer
3 18 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (20.22%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (17.98%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 10 (11.24%) Architect
6 8 (8.99%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Network Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Consultant
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) VMware Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (34.83%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) Flash
3 1 (1.12%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.12%) REST
3 1 (1.12%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.84%) Data Centre
2 15 (16.85%) PKI
3 14 (15.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (15.73%) Public Cloud
4 12 (13.48%) Replication
5 7 (7.87%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (6.74%) Clustering
7 4 (4.49%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.25%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (2.25%) EMC VNX
9 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (39.33%) Linux
2 32 (35.96%) Windows
3 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.62%) VMS
6 4 (4.49%) SUSE
6 4 (4.49%) Unix
7 2 (2.25%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (2.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (31.46%) Platform Engineering
3 25 (28.09%) Migration
4 24 (26.97%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (25.84%) Network Virtualisation
6 20 (22.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (21.35%) SIEM
8 18 (20.22%) CI/CD
9 17 (19.10%) Converged Infrastructure
10 16 (17.98%) DevSecOps
10 16 (17.98%) Mentoring
11 14 (15.73%) Agile
11 14 (15.73%) Systems Engineering
12 13 (14.61%) Customer Requirements
13 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (11.24%) ITIL
15 10 (11.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.58%) PowerShell
2 21 (23.60%) Python
3 19 (21.35%) Bash
4 1 (1.12%) Bicep
4 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (68.54%) Security Cleared
2 36 (40.45%) DV Cleared
3 33 (37.08%) SC Cleared
4 31 (34.83%) VCAP
5 24 (26.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (8.99%) AWS Certification
7 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.37%) CCNP
9 3 (3.37%) CCSE
9 3 (3.37%) CCSM
9 3 (3.37%) Degree
10 2 (2.25%) NCDA
10 2 (2.25%) NCIE
11 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.25%) NCSC
2 2 (2.25%) NIST
System Software
1 75 (84.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (74.16%) VMware NSX
3 64 (71.91%) vSphere
4 51 (57.30%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (22.47%) Hyper-V
6 17 (19.10%) Active Directory
7 15 (16.85%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (11.24%) Docker
9 6 (6.74%) NFS
10 4 (4.49%) GPFS
11 3 (3.37%) Firmware
12 2 (2.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (2.25%) SRDF
13 1 (1.12%) KVM
13 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (51.69%) vCenter Server
2 31 (34.83%) Ansible
3 28 (31.46%) Kubernetes
3 28 (31.46%) VxRail
4 13 (14.61%) PowerCLI
4 13 (14.61%) vRealize
5 6 (6.74%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.37%) Grafana
6 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.37%) vMotion
7 2 (2.25%) Argo
7 2 (2.25%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (2.25%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.25%) SnapMirror
7 2 (2.25%) SnapVault
8 1 (1.12%) Avamar
8 1 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.12%) OPNET
Vendors
1 89 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (15.73%) Cisco
3 8 (8.99%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.87%) Broadcom
4 7 (7.87%) Oracle
5 6 (6.74%) Dell
6 5 (5.62%) Veeam
7 4 (4.49%) IBM
7 4 (4.49%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.49%) SaltStack
7 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.37%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.37%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.37%) Thales
8 3 (3.37%) Zerto
9 2 (2.25%) 3PAR
9 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.25%) Brocade
9 2 (2.25%) SolarWinds