VSAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 330 377
Rank change year-on-year +24 +47 +74
Contract jobs citing VSAN 30 58 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 1.71% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 61
10th Percentile £500 - £419
25th Percentile £550 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +15.51%
75th Percentile £653 £646 £575
90th Percentile £688 £725 £638
UK median daily rate £578 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - - £49.80
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year - +15.10% +12.54%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year - +15.10% +12.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,985 3,385 3,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.52% 16.46% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 1,940 2,259
10th Percentile £195 £203 £210
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.81% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 358 322
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.43 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -23.25% +112.54% -31.56%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VSAN in the UK excluding London

VSAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in the UK excluding London

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the UK excluding London

VSAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAN in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VSAN in the UK excluding London

VSAN
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +27 15 £580 +16.00% 3
South West +23 7 £675 +35.00% 3
East of England - 5 £550 -
North of England +16 3 - - 6
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
North West +10 1 - - 2
VSAN
UK

VSAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.33%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
1 6 (20.00%) GitHub
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) IaaS
4 3 (10.00%) PaaS
4 3 (10.00%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Firewall
2 7 (23.33%) DNS
3 5 (16.67%) BGP
3 5 (16.67%) OSPF
4 4 (13.33%) Network Security
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (10.00%) MPLS
5 3 (10.00%) NGFW
5 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (10.00%) VPN
5 3 (10.00%) WAN
6 2 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (6.67%) IPv6
6 2 (6.67%) SAN
6 2 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (6.67%) TACACS
6 2 (6.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Billing
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Architect
1 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Technical Architect
2 7 (23.33%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Principal Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.33%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Flash
1 2 (6.67%) YAML
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (23.33%) PKI
3 5 (16.67%) Clustering
4 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
5 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (3.33%) Blackberry
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (3.33%) Replication
7 1 (3.33%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (10.00%) Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (23.33%) DevSecOps
4 7 (23.33%) ITIL
4 7 (23.33%) TOGAF
5 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 5 (16.67%) Microservices
6 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
6 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 5 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
6 5 (16.67%) Zero Trust
7 4 (13.33%) Power Management
7 4 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (53.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
4 12 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (20.00%) MCSE
5 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (13.33%) VCAP
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) CCNP
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) NCSC
2 5 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (70.00%) VMware NSX
3 15 (50.00%) vSphere
4 8 (26.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.67%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) vCenter Server
2 8 (26.67%) VxRail
3 6 (20.00%) Ansible
4 5 (16.67%) PowerCLI
4 5 (16.67%) WSUS
5 4 (13.33%) Terraform
5 4 (13.33%) vRealize
6 3 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (6.67%) Argo
8 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
8 1 (3.33%) Nessus
8 1 (3.33%) OPNET
8 1 (3.33%) Puppet
8 1 (3.33%) SCCM
8 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (93.33%) VMware
2 9 (30.00%) Cisco
3 7 (23.33%) Dell
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (23.33%) Palo Alto
4 3 (10.00%) Infoblox
4 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.00%) Symantec
5 2 (6.67%) Juniper
5 2 (6.67%) NETGEAR
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.67%) TP-LINK
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (3.33%) Veeam