VSAN Contracts in the South East

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring VSAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAN over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 167 200
Rank change year-on-year +27 +33 +25
Contract jobs citing VSAN 15 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 0.43% 0.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.88% 1.94% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 18
10th Percentile £506 £416 £410
25th Percentile £561 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +9.89% -
75th Percentile £638 £610 £513
90th Percentile £661 £669 £561
England median daily rate £580 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% +3.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 520 1,234 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.32% 22.26% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 611 580
10th Percentile £210 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +0.77% +8.06%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 131 75
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.25
25th Percentile £20.85 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.32% +9.24% +144.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -22.63%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VSAN in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in the South East

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the South East

VSAN
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Thames Valley +30 12 £580 +16.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +14 7 £618 +23.50%
Berkshire +24 5 £575 - 2
Hampshire +30 3 £658 +0.77% 2
VSAN
England

VSAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (20.00%) PaaS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) BGP
2 5 (33.33%) OSPF
3 4 (26.67%) Firewall
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (20.00%) MPLS
4 3 (20.00%) NGFW
4 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (13.33%) IPv6
5 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 2 (13.33%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (13.33%) TACACS
5 2 (13.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
1 7 (46.67%) Technical Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (33.33%) PKI
3 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (20.00%) Clustering
5 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) DevSecOps
2 7 (46.67%) TOGAF
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (40.00%) ITIL
4 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (33.33%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
5 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Management
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Use Case
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (13.33%) Power Management
6 2 (13.33%) Runbook
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (40.00%) MCSE
4 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) CCNP
6 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (6.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (33.33%) NCSC
1 5 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 6 (40.00%) vSphere
3 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (13.33%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (20.00%) WSUS
3 2 (13.33%) Argo
4 1 (6.67%) PowerCLI
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) VMware
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 7 (46.67%) Palo Alto
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Symantec
5 2 (13.33%) Dell
5 2 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (13.33%) NETGEAR
5 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) TP-LINK
6 1 (6.67%) Veeam