VSAN Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VSAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VSAN over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 380 449
Rank change year-on-year +42 +69 -71
Contract jobs citing VSAN 56 71 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.68% 2.02% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 59 36
10th Percentile - £418 £381
25th Percentile £463 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £455
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +12.64% +10.30%
75th Percentile £646 £575 £510
90th Percentile £725 £638 £570
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £488
% change year-on-year +1.20% +6.41% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £45.60 £41.92
25th Percentile - £49.80 £42.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.13 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year +15.10% +12.54% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £52.13 £46.32
% change year-on-year +15.10% +12.54% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

VSAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,326 3,507 4,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.24% 14.99% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,901 2,205 2,609
10th Percentile £200 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +6.86% +11.13%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 322 236
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.43 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.25
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.51% +4.63%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 23 £500 +9.89% 2
South West +18 20 £500 -9.09% 1
Scotland +43 10 £646 +14.84%
North of England +27 3 £525 +16.67% 1
North West +17 2 £438 -1.41% 1
North East - 1 £525 -
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 6 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) IBM Domino
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) nginx
3 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.36%) Nutanix
2 2 (3.57%) AWS
2 2 (3.57%) Azure
2 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.79%) GitHub
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (5.36%) Firewall
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.57%) SAN
3 2 (3.57%) Skype
3 2 (3.57%) SNA
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.79%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.79%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) GitLab
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) VMware Engineer
2 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) VMware Expert
5 4 (7.14%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Architect
6 3 (5.36%) Lead
7 2 (3.57%) Data Centre Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Data Centre Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Migration Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Migration Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior
7 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) VMware Architect
7 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) Flash
2 2 (3.57%) YAML
3 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 15 (26.79%) PKI
3 6 (10.71%) Clustering
4 4 (7.14%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.14%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Windows
3 6 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.36%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Agile
2 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (19.64%) Converged Infrastructure
4 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (16.07%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.07%) Time Management
6 8 (14.29%) DevOps
6 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (12.50%) Migration
7 7 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
7 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (10.71%) Kanban
8 6 (10.71%) Service Management
8 6 (10.71%) Validation
9 5 (8.93%) High Availability
9 5 (8.93%) System Testing
9 5 (8.93%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.93%) Python
2 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.57%) Bash
3 2 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (41.07%) DV Cleared
3 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
4 11 (19.64%) Degree
5 10 (17.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (10.71%) Master's Degree
8 5 (8.93%) CCNA
9 4 (7.14%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) VCAP
10 2 (3.57%) CCNP
11 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (82.14%) VMware NSX
2 30 (53.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (46.43%) vSphere
4 25 (44.64%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (17.86%) Hyper-V
6 9 (16.07%) vCloud
7 7 (12.50%) Active Directory
8 2 (3.57%) KVM
Systems Management
1 34 (60.71%) vCenter Server
2 12 (21.43%) vRealize
3 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
4 7 (12.50%) vMotion
5 6 (10.71%) VxRail
6 4 (7.14%) WSUS
7 3 (5.36%) Ansible
7 3 (5.36%) Terraform
8 2 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (3.57%) Rancher
9 1 (1.79%) Avamar
9 1 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.79%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (1.79%) SCCM
9 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (17.86%) Cisco
3 6 (10.71%) Atlassian
3 6 (10.71%) Dell
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 2 (3.57%) Symantec
5 2 (3.57%) Veeam
6 1 (1.79%) EMC
6 1 (1.79%) Juniper
6 1 (1.79%) NETGEAR
6 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto