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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 482 508
Rank change year-on-year -52 +26 +65
Contract jobs citing VSAN 94 48 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.05% 1.29% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 28 48
10th Percentile £333 £492 -
25th Percentile £456 £545 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £578 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £622 £647
90th Percentile £657 £669 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £578 £525
% change year-on-year -2.16% +10.00% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £75.45 - -
25th Percentile £76.13 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £90.31 - -
90th Percentile £95.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.10%

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 4,584 3,730 5,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 12.73% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,862 2,294 3,329
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 175 424
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.32 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £36.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.45% -8.39% +110.53%
75th Percentile £67.13 £58.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £24.71 £45.88
% change year-on-year +99.76% -46.14% +148.00%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 15 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 May 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 -72 82 £550 -5.17% 6
UK excluding London -80 49 £565 -2.16% 6
Work from Home -10 31 £588 +2.17% 7
London -43 29 £525 -12.50% 2
South East -53 20 £610 +5.17% 2
Midlands - 12 £317 - 1
North of England -54 10 £519 -
West Midlands - 10 £308 -
North West -29 9 £454 -
South West -30 2 £505 -25.19%
East of England -40 2 £350 -36.36%
Wales - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
Yorkshire -51 1 £519 -
Scotland - 1 £375 - 2

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 5 (5.32%) Confluence
2 4 (4.26%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) JBoss
4 1 (1.06%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.21%) AWS
1 19 (20.21%) Azure
2 6 (6.38%) Datadog
2 6 (6.38%) OpenShift
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.06%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.06%) GCP
6 1 (1.06%) GitHub
6 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.06%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) SAN
2 7 (7.45%) Firewall
2 7 (7.45%) VLAN
3 5 (5.32%) FCoE
3 5 (5.32%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.32%) iSCSI
4 4 (4.26%) Network Security
4 4 (4.26%) VPN
4 4 (4.26%) WAN
5 3 (3.19%) LAN
5 3 (3.19%) NAS
6 2 (2.13%) Calico
6 2 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.13%) DHCP
6 2 (2.13%) DNS
6 2 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (2.13%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) GitLab
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (18.09%) Finance
2 15 (15.96%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Legal
6 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) VMware Engineer
2 18 (19.15%) Senior
3 16 (17.02%) Architect
4 12 (12.77%) Analyst
4 12 (12.77%) Consultant
4 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 11 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) Storage Analyst
7 8 (8.51%) VMware Consultant
8 6 (6.38%) SAN Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.32%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) VMware Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Server Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Network Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Architect
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) Flash
2 2 (2.13%) LDAP
3 1 (1.06%) REST
3 1 (1.06%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.34%) Replication
2 14 (14.89%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (12.77%) Data Centre
4 9 (9.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (7.45%) EMC VMAX
5 7 (7.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (6.38%) Clustering
6 6 (6.38%) PKI
7 5 (5.32%) Private Cloud
8 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
9 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.13%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 1 (1.06%) EMC VNX
11 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.06%) Operational Technology
11 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (1.06%) Symmetrix
11 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (37.23%) Linux
2 20 (21.28%) Windows
3 10 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.38%) VMS
6 5 (5.32%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.26%) SUSE
7 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.19%) Unix
8 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.06%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.72%) Migration
2 13 (13.83%) Agile
3 12 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (12.77%) Storage Management
4 11 (11.70%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (10.64%) Capacity Planning
6 9 (9.57%) CI/CD
6 9 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (9.57%) High Availability
6 9 (9.57%) ITIL
6 9 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (9.57%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (7.45%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (7.45%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.45%) Validation
8 7 (7.45%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.70%) Python
3 5 (5.32%) Bash
4 3 (3.19%) SQL
5 2 (2.13%) C
6 1 (1.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.28%) DV Cleared
4 17 (18.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (13.83%) VCAP
6 9 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (7.45%) CCNP
8 5 (5.32%) Degree
9 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
9 4 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (4.26%) HP ASE
10 3 (3.19%) CCSM
10 3 (3.19%) VCDX
11 2 (2.13%) CCSE
12 1 (1.06%) CCIE
12 1 (1.06%) CCNA
12 1 (1.06%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (1.06%) NCDA
12 1 (1.06%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (6.38%) NCSC
2 6 (6.38%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (68.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 62 (65.96%) vSphere
3 55 (58.51%) VMware NSX
4 39 (41.49%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (15.96%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (8.51%) Hyper-V
6 8 (8.51%) SRDF
7 7 (7.45%) NFS
8 6 (6.38%) GPFS
9 5 (5.32%) Active Directory
10 3 (3.19%) Firmware
11 2 (2.13%) vCloud
12 1 (1.06%) Docker
12 1 (1.06%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 26 (27.66%) vCenter Server
2 19 (20.21%) VxRail
3 18 (19.15%) vRealize
4 11 (11.70%) Ansible
5 9 (9.57%) PowerCLI
6 7 (7.45%) Kubernetes
7 6 (6.38%) EMC TimeFinder
8 5 (5.32%) WSUS
9 4 (4.26%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (4.26%) Terraform
10 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (2.13%) Check_MK
11 2 (2.13%) Istio
11 2 (2.13%) Nessus
11 2 (2.13%) vMotion
12 1 (1.06%) Argo
12 1 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (1.06%) Grafana
12 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
12 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 88 (93.62%) VMware
2 33 (35.11%) Cisco
3 23 (24.47%) Dell
4 12 (12.77%) IBM
5 10 (10.64%) Broadcom
5 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
5 10 (10.64%) Palo Alto
6 9 (9.57%) Red Hat
7 8 (8.51%) Pure Storage
8 7 (7.45%) Brocade
8 7 (7.45%) Oracle
9 6 (6.38%) EMC
9 6 (6.38%) HP
9 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
9 6 (6.38%) SolarWinds
10 5 (5.32%) AppDynamics
10 5 (5.32%) Commvault
10 5 (5.32%) NVIDIA
11 4 (4.26%) Fortinet
11 4 (4.26%) Veeam