VSAN Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring VSAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - +78
Contract jobs citing VSAN 9 0 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.31% - 0.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.31% - 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £306 - -
25th Percentile £309 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £341 - £306
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.32%
75th Percentile £407 - £530
90th Percentile £516 - £588
England median daily rate £550 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -7.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 389 363 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.55% 13.67% 19.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 203 291
10th Percentile £163 £172 £200
25th Percentile £269 £295 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £504 £600 £538
90th Percentile £590 £675 £673
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 30
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.15 £17.40
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.37 £22.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.35 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +3.09% +53.98%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £44.00 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +37.68%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VSAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

VSAN job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VSAN
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VSAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VSAN

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the Midlands

VSAN
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 October 2025. 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
West Midlands - 8 £341 - 3
East Midlands - 1 - -
VSAN
England

VSAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (44.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 6 (66.67%) Datadog
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (22.22%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) SUSE
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (11.11%) IT Audit
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (77.78%) vSphere
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) VxRail
2 6 (66.67%) vRealize
3 1 (11.11%) PowerCLI
3 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (77.78%) Dell
3 6 (66.67%) AppDynamics
3 6 (66.67%) Cisco
3 6 (66.67%) Commvault
3 6 (66.67%) IBM
3 6 (66.67%) SolarWinds
4 4 (44.44%) HP
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (22.22%) Veeam
6 1 (11.11%) Zerto