VSAN Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 129 133
Rank change year-on-year +44 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing VSAN 17 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 0.60% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.75% 2.64% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 17
10th Percentile £506 £416 £410
25th Percentile £561 £458 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% +9.89% -0.55%
75th Percentile £630 £610 £494
90th Percentile - £633 £531
South East median daily rate £615 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +23.00% +9.89% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VSAN in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Buckinghamshire +21 12 £628 +25.61%
Berkshire +27 5 £575 - 2
VSAN
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (47.06%) IaaS
1 8 (47.06%) PaaS
1 8 (47.06%) SaaS
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) BGP
1 5 (29.41%) OSPF
2 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (17.65%) MPLS
3 3 (17.65%) NGFW
3 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
3 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) WAN
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (11.76%) IPv6
4 2 (11.76%) SAN
4 2 (11.76%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (11.76%) TACACS
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Architect
1 12 (70.59%) Technical Architect
2 10 (58.82%) Senior
2 10 (58.82%) Senior Architect
2 10 (58.82%) Senior Technical Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (17.65%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior VMware Architect
5 2 (11.76%) VMware Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Principal Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (58.82%) PKI
3 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.88%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) DevSecOps
2 12 (70.59%) TOGAF
3 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (64.71%) ITIL
4 10 (58.82%) Containerisation
4 10 (58.82%) Continuous Delivery
4 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (58.82%) Microservices
4 10 (58.82%) Zachman Framework
5 8 (47.06%) Use Case
6 7 (41.18%) IT Strategy
6 7 (41.18%) Requirements Management
6 7 (41.18%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (35.29%) Matrix Organization
7 6 (35.29%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (17.65%) Network Virtualisation
9 2 (11.76%) Adaptive Security
9 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (11.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (64.71%) MCSE
3 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
5 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) CCNP
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (5.88%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (58.82%) NCSC
1 10 (58.82%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
1 15 (88.24%) VMware NSX
2 3 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (17.65%) vSphere
3 2 (11.76%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.76%) Argo
3 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 14 (82.35%) Cisco
3 12 (70.59%) Palo Alto
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) Dell
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.88%) Veeam