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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 464 510
Rank change year-on-year -56 +46 +67
Contract jobs citing VSAN 95 57 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.12% 1.51% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 51
10th Percentile £315 £495 -
25th Percentile £456 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £650
90th Percentile £649 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 £615 £525
% change year-on-year -9.35% +17.14% -
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 4,483 3,767 5,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.66% 12.76% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,796 2,331 3,434
10th Percentile £249 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £362 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -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 216 172 430
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £20.83 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.38 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -6.25% +110.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.31 £62.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.94 £46.95
% change year-on-year +87.90% -40.48% +153.76%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -67 82 £550 -8.33% 7
UK excluding London -92 50 £558 -9.35% 8
Work from Home -15 32 £558 -11.24% 3
London -34 28 £525 -12.50% 2
South East -52 20 £610 -1.21% 3
Midlands - 13 £308 - 2
North of England -55 11 £528 -
West Midlands - 11 £306 - 1
North West -29 8 £538 -
Yorkshire -51 3 £519 -
South West -37 2 £505 -25.19%
Wales - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East of England -30 1 - -
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) JBoss
4 1 (1.05%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.16%) Azure
2 21 (22.11%) AWS
3 8 (8.42%) OpenShift
4 7 (7.37%) Datadog
5 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Stack
7 3 (3.16%) GCP
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.05%) GitHub
9 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) SAN
2 8 (8.42%) Firewall
3 7 (7.37%) VLAN
4 5 (5.26%) FCoE
4 5 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (5.26%) iSCSI
4 5 (5.26%) Network Security
5 4 (4.21%) DNS
5 4 (4.21%) VPN
6 3 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.16%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (3.16%) DHCP
6 3 (3.16%) NAS
6 3 (3.16%) WAN
7 2 (2.11%) Calico
7 2 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.11%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.11%) LAN
7 2 (2.11%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) GitLab
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Finance
3 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Advertising
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (21.05%) VMware Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) Architect
2 17 (17.89%) Senior
3 12 (12.63%) Analyst
3 12 (12.63%) Consultant
4 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Storage Analyst
6 8 (8.42%) VMware Consultant
7 6 (6.32%) SAN Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) VMware Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Server Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Technical Architect
10 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) Flash
2 2 (2.11%) LDAP
3 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) Replication
2 14 (14.74%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (12.63%) Data Centre
4 10 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (7.37%) EMC VMAX
5 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (6.32%) Clustering
6 6 (6.32%) PKI
7 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
8 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
9 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.11%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (1.05%) EMC VNX
11 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
11 1 (1.05%) RSA SecurID
11 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (36.84%) Linux
2 21 (22.11%) Windows
3 10 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.32%) VMS
5 5 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.21%) SUSE
6 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.11%) Unix
9 1 (1.05%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.05%) Solaris
9 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.58%) Migration
2 13 (13.68%) Agile
3 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (12.63%) Storage Management
4 11 (11.58%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (11.58%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
5 10 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 9 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (9.47%) High Availability
6 9 (9.47%) ITIL
6 9 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.42%) Mentoring
8 7 (7.37%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (7.37%) Network Virtualisation
8 7 (7.37%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.58%) Python
3 5 (5.26%) Bash
4 3 (3.16%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) C
6 1 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 19 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 13 (13.68%) VCAP
5 8 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (7.37%) CCNP
7 5 (5.26%) Degree
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (4.21%) HP ASE
9 3 (3.16%) CCSM
9 3 (3.16%) VCDX
10 2 (2.11%) CCSE
11 1 (1.05%) CCIE
11 1 (1.05%) CCNA
11 1 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.05%) NCDA
11 1 (1.05%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.26%) NCSC
2 5 (5.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (67.37%) vSphere
3 56 (58.95%) VMware NSX
4 38 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (8.42%) Hyper-V
6 8 (8.42%) SRDF
7 7 (7.37%) NFS
8 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
8 5 (5.26%) GPFS
9 3 (3.16%) Firmware
10 2 (2.11%) Docker
10 2 (2.11%) vCloud
11 1 (1.05%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (28.42%) vCenter Server
2 19 (20.00%) VxRail
3 17 (17.89%) vRealize
4 13 (13.68%) Ansible
5 9 (9.47%) PowerCLI
6 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
7 6 (6.32%) EMC TimeFinder
7 6 (6.32%) Terraform
8 5 (5.26%) WSUS
9 4 (4.21%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (2.11%) Argo
11 2 (2.11%) Check_MK
11 2 (2.11%) Istio
11 2 (2.11%) Nessus
11 2 (2.11%) vMotion
12 1 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (1.05%) SCCM
12 1 (1.05%) SCOM
Vendors
1 89 (93.68%) VMware
2 34 (35.79%) Cisco
3 24 (25.26%) Dell
4 12 (12.63%) IBM
5 11 (11.58%) Palo Alto
5 11 (11.58%) Red Hat
6 10 (10.53%) Broadcom
7 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
7 8 (8.42%) Pure Storage
8 7 (7.37%) Brocade
8 7 (7.37%) HP
8 7 (7.37%) SolarWinds
9 6 (6.32%) AppDynamics
9 6 (6.32%) Commvault
9 6 (6.32%) EMC
9 6 (6.32%) Oracle
10 5 (5.26%) NVIDIA
10 5 (5.26%) ServiceNow
11 4 (4.21%) Fortinet
11 4 (4.21%) Veeam