VSAN Contract Job Trends

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VSAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 513 503
Rank change year-on-year -56 -10 +77
Contract jobs citing VSAN 106 51 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.08% 1.31% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 29 58
10th Percentile £373 £471 £376
25th Percentile £500 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £656 £590 £556
90th Percentile £780 £664 £565
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £75.00 - -
25th Percentile £83.77 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £99.29 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £98.82 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,087 3,890 4,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.47% 11.80% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,997 2,381 2,743
10th Percentile £250 £238 £230
25th Percentile £400 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 202 288
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% -10.00% -9.62%
75th Percentile £65.06 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.81 £42.50 £55.75
% change year-on-year -39.28% -23.76% -1.32%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VSAN job vacancy trend in the UK

VSAN
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSAN

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSAN

VSAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 August 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
England -58 102 £600 +9.09% 13
UK excluding London -37 83 £600 +9.09% 11
Work from Home -21 36 £588 +6.82% 7
South East -48 33 £600 +9.09% 4
South West -25 25 £700 +14.29% 3
London -65 17 £525 -14.29% 4
North of England -59 13 £519 - 1
North West -42 9 £427 - 1
East of England -15 6 £433 -21.36% 1
Midlands -46 5 £263 -27.99% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £519 -
West Midlands -42 3 £263 -28.04% 1
East Midlands -12 2 £526 - 1
Scotland - 1 £375 -

VSAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.77%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.02%) AWS
2 28 (26.42%) Azure
3 6 (5.66%) Azure Stack
4 5 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (3.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.89%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.89%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.89%) Datadog
7 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.89%) GCP
7 2 (1.89%) GitHub
7 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.89%) OCI
7 2 (1.89%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.94%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.75%) Firewall
2 21 (19.81%) DNS
3 18 (16.98%) TCP/IP
4 17 (16.04%) DHCP
5 10 (9.43%) VLAN
6 6 (5.66%) VPN
7 5 (4.72%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (4.72%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (4.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (4.72%) Network Security
8 4 (3.77%) NAS
8 4 (3.77%) SAN
9 3 (2.83%) BGP
9 3 (2.83%) OSPF
9 3 (2.83%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.94%) H.323
10 1 (0.94%) LAN
10 1 (0.94%) VoIP
10 1 (0.94%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.94%) GitLab
General
1 13 (12.26%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.38%) Finance
3 10 (9.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.66%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.66%) Retail
5 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Advertising
7 2 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Local Government
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (28.30%) Senior
2 28 (26.42%) VMware Engineer
3 21 (19.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (18.87%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 17 (16.04%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (9.43%) Architect
7 9 (8.49%) Consultant
7 9 (8.49%) Network Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) VMware Consultant
11 5 (4.72%) Analyst
11 5 (4.72%) NOC Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (29.25%) Terraform
2 5 (4.72%) Flash
3 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.94%) REST
3 1 (0.94%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.58%) Data Centre
2 16 (15.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (15.09%) PKI
3 15 (14.15%) Public Cloud
4 14 (13.21%) Replication
5 8 (7.55%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (5.66%) Clustering
7 5 (4.72%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.89%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.89%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.94%) Social Media
9 1 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (41.51%) Linux
2 38 (35.85%) Windows
3 9 (8.49%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.66%) VMS
5 5 (4.72%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.72%) Unix
6 4 (3.77%) SUSE
7 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (27.36%) Platform Engineering
3 26 (24.53%) Migration
4 25 (23.58%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (22.64%) Network Virtualisation
6 23 (21.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (19.81%) Mentoring
7 21 (19.81%) SIEM
8 20 (18.87%) CI/CD
9 17 (16.04%) Converged Infrastructure
9 17 (16.04%) DevSecOps
10 14 (13.21%) Agile
10 14 (13.21%) Systems Engineering
11 13 (12.26%) Customer Requirements
11 13 (12.26%) Load Balancing
11 13 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (10.38%) ITIL
13 11 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (10.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.30%) PowerShell
2 20 (18.87%) Python
3 19 (17.92%) Bash
4 1 (0.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (64.15%) Security Cleared
2 41 (38.68%) DV Cleared
3 37 (34.91%) SC Cleared
4 35 (33.02%) VCAP
5 30 (28.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (6.60%) AWS Certification
7 6 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.72%) CCNP
8 5 (4.72%) CCSE
8 5 (4.72%) CCSM
9 2 (1.89%) Degree
9 2 (1.89%) NCDA
9 2 (1.89%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) SLA
2 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.83%) NCSC
2 3 (2.83%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (86.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 80 (75.47%) VMware NSX
3 75 (70.75%) vSphere
4 60 (56.60%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (19.81%) Hyper-V
6 20 (18.87%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (15.09%) Active Directory
8 10 (9.43%) Docker
9 7 (6.60%) NFS
10 5 (4.72%) GPFS
11 3 (2.83%) Firmware
12 2 (1.89%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (1.89%) SRDF
13 1 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (47.17%) vCenter Server
2 34 (32.08%) Ansible
3 31 (29.25%) VxRail
4 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
5 15 (14.15%) PowerCLI
6 14 (13.21%) vRealize
7 6 (5.66%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (2.83%) Grafana
8 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.83%) vMotion
8 3 (2.83%) WSUS
9 2 (1.89%) Argo
9 2 (1.89%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.89%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.89%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.89%) SnapMirror
9 2 (1.89%) SnapVault
10 1 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.94%) OPNET
Vendors
1 106 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (16.98%) Cisco
3 10 (9.43%) Broadcom
4 9 (8.49%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.60%) Dell
5 7 (6.60%) Oracle
5 7 (6.60%) Palo Alto
6 5 (4.72%) CheckPoint
6 5 (4.72%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.72%) IBM
6 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.72%) Veeam
7 4 (3.77%) NVIDIA
7 4 (3.77%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.83%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.83%) Thales
8 3 (2.83%) Zerto
9 2 (1.89%) Brocade
9 2 (1.89%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.89%) SolarWinds