VSAN Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VSAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 159 183
Rank change year-on-year -58 +24 +39
Contract jobs citing VSAN 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.092% 0.061%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.16% 0.50% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £511
25th Percentile £355 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £385 - £575
90th Percentile - - £598
England median daily rate £535 £606 £575
% change year-on-year -11.75% +5.43% +9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 689 604 672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.34% 18.61% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 360 488
10th Percentile £200 £163 £197
25th Percentile £356 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £452
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -0.33% -4.95%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £582
90th Percentile £650 £638 £672
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 26
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.78 £14.13
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.18 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £24.67 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -0.79% +133.96%
75th Percentile £74.26 £37.67 £45.88
90th Percentile - £41.50 £48.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £36.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year +8.22% -5.81% +103.95%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VSAN job vacancy trend in the North of England

VSAN
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VSAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VSAN

VSAN
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VSAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VSAN

VSAN
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 March 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
North West -28 6 £370 - 2
Yorkshire -55 2 - -
VSAN
England

VSAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Storage Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
1 1 (12.50%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
4 1 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
3 1 (12.50%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) VCAP
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (62.50%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (12.50%) Docker
5 1 (12.50%) GPFS
5 1 (12.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Podman
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
3 1 (12.50%) SCOrch
3 1 (12.50%) vRealize
3 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) NetScout
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (12.50%) SevOne
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam