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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 489 524
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +108
Contract jobs citing VSAN 63 53 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.59% 1.25% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 33 46
10th Percentile £304 £400 £303
25th Percentile £368 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £634
90th Percentile £670 £630 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £76.50 - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £93.13 - -
90th Percentile £96.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.16%

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 3,970 4,228 5,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 12.75% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,480 3,605
10th Percentile £206 £220 £209
25th Percentile £356 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £473
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.53% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 138 329
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.86 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.88 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +68.63%
75th Percentile £65.50 £57.81 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.38 £75.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year +30.77% -43.96% +50.62%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -38 52 £550 - 14
UK excluding London -37 43 £550 -2.22% 9
Work from Home -7 20 £550 -1.79% 8
Midlands - 15 £313 -
West Midlands - 14 £311 -
South East -19 12 £550 -2.22% 7
London -23 10 £660 +32.00% 7
North of England -53 7 £370 -32.73% 1
North West -22 5 £370 -
South West -8 3 £613 -9.26%
Scotland - 3 £388 - 1
Yorkshire -55 2 - - 1
Wales - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 - -

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 9 (14.29%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.17%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.59%) JBoss
4 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.98%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) AWS
3 12 (19.05%) Datadog
4 4 (6.35%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (4.76%) GCP
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) Firewall
2 7 (11.11%) DNS
3 5 (7.94%) WAN
4 4 (6.35%) PCoIP
5 3 (4.76%) DHCP
5 3 (4.76%) Network Security
5 3 (4.76%) Skype
5 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.76%) VPN
6 2 (3.17%) Calico
6 2 (3.17%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.17%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.17%) LAN
6 2 (3.17%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.17%) VLAN
6 2 (3.17%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.59%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (1.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (1.59%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.17%) MariaDB
1 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) GitLab
2 2 (3.17%) JIRA
General
1 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (9.52%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.59%) French Language
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) Architect
2 13 (20.63%) Analyst
3 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) VMware Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Consultant
5 7 (11.11%) VMware Consultant
6 5 (7.94%) Storage Analyst
6 5 (7.94%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.76%) VMware Specialist
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) LDAP
1 2 (3.17%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.59%) Flash
2 1 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (19.05%) Data Centre
3 6 (9.52%) Private Cloud
4 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.94%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.94%) PKI
4 5 (7.94%) Replication
5 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.17%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.59%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.59%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 26 (41.27%) Linux
2 13 (20.63%) Windows
3 8 (12.70%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (7.94%) Windows 10
6 4 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (3.17%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.59%) CentOS
9 1 (1.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.22%) Agile
1 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (15.87%) Migration
3 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 7 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (9.52%) Decision-Making
5 6 (9.52%) Roadmaps
6 5 (7.94%) ITIL
6 5 (7.94%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (6.35%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (6.35%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.35%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 4 (6.35%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (4.76%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.70%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) Bash
3 6 (9.52%) Python
4 3 (4.76%) Go
5 2 (3.17%) VBA
6 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 6 (9.52%) VCDX
6 5 (7.94%) VCAP
7 4 (6.35%) Degree
8 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (4.76%) CCNP
8 3 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.17%) MCSE
9 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.59%) CCIE
10 1 (1.59%) CCSM
10 1 (1.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) NCSC
2 2 (3.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
3 1 (1.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 51 (80.95%) vSphere
2 44 (69.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (50.79%) VMware NSX
4 17 (26.98%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
5 5 (7.94%) NFS
6 3 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.17%) Docker
7 2 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.59%) Firmware
8 1 (1.59%) GPFS
8 1 (1.59%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 16 (25.40%) VxRail
2 15 (23.81%) vRealize
3 14 (22.22%) vCenter Server
4 10 (15.87%) Ansible
5 5 (7.94%) Terraform
6 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
7 3 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (4.76%) OPNET
8 2 (3.17%) Check_MK
8 2 (3.17%) Istio
8 2 (3.17%) Nessus
8 2 (3.17%) PowerCLI
8 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.17%) WSUS
9 1 (1.59%) Argo
9 1 (1.59%) Grafana
9 1 (1.59%) Podman
9 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.59%) SCCM
9 1 (1.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 63 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (33.33%) Cisco
3 16 (25.40%) Dell
4 14 (22.22%) IBM
4 14 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 12 (19.05%) AppDynamics
5 12 (19.05%) Commvault
5 12 (19.05%) SolarWinds
6 10 (15.87%) HP
7 8 (12.70%) Red Hat
8 6 (9.52%) NetApp
9 5 (7.94%) Palo Alto
9 5 (7.94%) Splunk
10 4 (6.35%) Veeam
11 3 (4.76%) EMC
12 2 (3.17%) Arista
12 2 (3.17%) F5
12 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
12 2 (3.17%) Oracle
12 2 (3.17%) Wind River