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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 505 478
Rank change year-on-year -54 -27 +108
Contract jobs citing VSAN 109 55 84
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.19% 1.38% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 29 64
10th Percentile £360 £471 £387
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £556
90th Percentile £705 £643 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £84.52 - -
25th Percentile £94.10 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £99.41 - -
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 4,970 3,978 4,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.35% 12.01% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,954 2,428 2,892
10th Percentile £250 £235 £220
25th Percentile £400 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £591 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 195 327
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £18.27
Median hourly rate £26.44 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.12% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.60 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £45.00 £53.69
% change year-on-year -40.76% -16.18% -6.63%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -65 100 £590 +7.27% 25
UK excluding London -50 75 £600 +9.09% 22
Work from Home -17 41 £570 +5.56% 6
South East -48 34 £605 +10.00% 5
London -57 22 £525 -12.50% 4
South West -27 18 £697 +3.19% 12
North of England -63 11 £519 - 5
North West -46 9 £427 - 1
East of England -14 6 £433 -21.36%
Midlands -43 5 £294 -19.38%
West Midlands -56 4 £294 -19.38%
Yorkshire - 2 £519 - 4
East Midlands -15 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 (3.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.92%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (33.03%) AWS
2 26 (23.85%) Azure
3 5 (4.59%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (4.59%) OpenShift
4 4 (3.67%) Azure Stack
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (2.75%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.83%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Storage
6 2 (1.83%) Datadog
6 2 (1.83%) GCP
6 2 (1.83%) GitHub
6 2 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.35%) Firewall
2 16 (14.68%) TCP/IP
3 15 (13.76%) DHCP
3 15 (13.76%) DNS
4 10 (9.17%) SAN
4 10 (9.17%) VLAN
5 6 (5.50%) VPN
6 5 (4.59%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (4.59%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (4.59%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (4.59%) FCoE
6 5 (4.59%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (4.59%) iSCSI
6 5 (4.59%) Network Security
7 4 (3.67%) BGP
7 4 (3.67%) NAS
8 3 (2.75%) OSPF
8 3 (2.75%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.92%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 14 (12.84%) Finance
2 13 (11.93%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.59%) Retail
4 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Advertising
7 2 (1.83%) Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (27.52%) Senior
2 28 (25.69%) VMware Engineer
3 22 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (17.43%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 13 (11.93%) Consultant
6 12 (11.01%) Architect
7 9 (8.26%) Network Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) VMware Consultant
7 9 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (6.42%) Analyst
8 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) Storage Analyst
9 6 (5.50%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) NOC Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Flash
2 1 (0.92%) REST
2 1 (0.92%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.77%) Data Centre
2 19 (17.43%) Replication
3 17 (15.60%) PKI
4 12 (11.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (11.01%) Public Cloud
5 9 (8.26%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (7.34%) EMC VMAX
6 8 (7.34%) Enterprise Storage
7 6 (5.50%) Clustering
7 6 (5.50%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.83%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.92%) HP Storage
9 1 (0.92%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.92%) Social Media
9 1 (0.92%) Symmetrix
9 1 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (40.37%) Linux
2 33 (30.28%) Windows
3 8 (7.34%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.50%) VMS
5 5 (4.59%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.59%) Unix
6 4 (3.67%) SUSE
7 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.83%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.77%) Migration
2 24 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (22.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (21.10%) Network Virtualisation
4 22 (20.18%) Technical Leadership
5 21 (19.27%) CI/CD
6 20 (18.35%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (17.43%) SIEM
8 17 (15.60%) DevSecOps
8 17 (15.60%) Mentoring
9 15 (13.76%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.84%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (11.93%) High Availability
12 12 (11.01%) Agile
12 12 (11.01%) Systems Engineering
13 11 (10.09%) Containerisation
13 11 (10.09%) Customer Requirements
13 11 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (10.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.02%) PowerShell
1 24 (22.02%) Python
2 17 (15.60%) Bash
3 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (57.80%) Security Cleared
2 38 (34.86%) DV Cleared
3 37 (33.94%) SC Cleared
4 30 (27.52%) VCAP
5 29 (26.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (10.09%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (8.26%) CCNP
8 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.59%) CCSE
8 5 (4.59%) CCSM
9 4 (3.67%) HP ASE
10 3 (2.75%) Degree
11 2 (1.83%) NCDA
11 2 (1.83%) NCIE
12 1 (0.92%) CCNA
12 1 (0.92%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) NCSC
1 6 (5.50%) NIST
2 5 (4.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.59%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
System Software
1 86 (78.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (67.89%) VMware NSX
3 68 (62.39%) vSphere
4 56 (51.38%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (17.43%) Hyper-V
6 16 (14.68%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (13.76%) Active Directory
8 11 (10.09%) Docker
9 8 (7.34%) NFS
9 8 (7.34%) SRDF
10 6 (5.50%) GPFS
11 3 (2.75%) Firmware
12 2 (1.83%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 44 (40.37%) vCenter Server
2 30 (27.52%) VxRail
3 27 (24.77%) Ansible
4 24 (22.02%) Kubernetes
5 22 (20.18%) Terraform
6 16 (14.68%) vRealize
7 11 (10.09%) PowerCLI
8 6 (5.50%) EMC TimeFinder
9 4 (3.67%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (2.75%) Grafana
10 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (2.75%) Prometheus
10 3 (2.75%) WSUS
11 2 (1.83%) Argo
11 2 (1.83%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.83%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.83%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.83%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.83%) SnapVault
11 2 (1.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 103 (94.50%) VMware
2 28 (25.69%) Cisco
3 15 (13.76%) Broadcom
3 15 (13.76%) Dell
4 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.17%) Palo Alto
5 9 (8.26%) Pure Storage
6 8 (7.34%) Brocade
7 6 (5.50%) EMC
7 6 (5.50%) IBM
7 6 (5.50%) Oracle
7 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.59%) CheckPoint
8 5 (4.59%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.59%) NVIDIA
8 5 (4.59%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.59%) Veeam
9 3 (2.75%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.75%) Thales
9 3 (2.75%) Zerto