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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 497 489
Rank change year-on-year -53 -8 +86
Contract jobs citing VSAN 116 55 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.32% 1.39% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 30 64
10th Percentile £365 £478 £387
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +7.32% +3.27%
75th Percentile £643 £600 £556
90th Percentile £731 £640 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £550 £513
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.32% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £75.00 - -
25th Percentile £76.13 - -
Median hourly rate £95.68 - -
75th Percentile £98.82 - -
90th Percentile £99.17 - -
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 5,006 3,963 4,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.38% 11.95% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,963 2,424 2,875
10th Percentile £250 £240 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 198 316
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £19.79
Median hourly rate £26.07 £46.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.38% -5.30% -4.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.30 £74.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.18% -4.21%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -52 107 £600 +9.09% 21
UK excluding London -45 80 £600 +9.09% 14
Work from Home -10 41 £588 +6.82% 6
South East -49 34 £605 +10.00% 5
London -77 23 £525 -12.50% 8
South West -28 22 £700 +20.43% 7
North of England -51 13 £519 - 1
North West -36 9 £427 - 1
East of England -16 6 £433 -21.36% 1
Midlands -46 4 £263 -27.99%
Yorkshire - 4 £519 -
West Midlands -48 3 £263 -27.99%
East Midlands -8 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 (3.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) CMS
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (31.90%) AWS
2 29 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (5.17%) Azure Stack
4 5 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (4.31%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.72%) Datadog
7 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.72%) GCP
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.72%) OCI
8 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.10%) Firewall
2 17 (14.66%) TCP/IP
3 16 (13.79%) DHCP
3 16 (13.79%) DNS
4 10 (8.62%) SAN
4 10 (8.62%) VLAN
5 6 (5.17%) VPN
6 5 (4.31%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (4.31%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (4.31%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (4.31%) FCoE
6 5 (4.31%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (4.31%) iSCSI
6 5 (4.31%) Network Security
7 4 (3.45%) BGP
7 4 (3.45%) NAS
8 3 (2.59%) OSPF
8 3 (2.59%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.86%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 15 (12.93%) Finance
2 14 (12.07%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.17%) Retail
5 5 (4.31%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Advertising
8 2 (1.72%) Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.86%) Legal
9 1 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (28.45%) Senior
2 28 (24.14%) VMware Engineer
3 22 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (16.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 15 (12.93%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (12.07%) Consultant
7 13 (11.21%) Architect
8 10 (8.62%) VMware Consultant
9 9 (7.76%) Network Engineer
9 9 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Analyst
11 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (5.17%) SAN Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Storage Analyst
11 6 (5.17%) Technical Architect
11 6 (5.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (4.31%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.90%) Flash
2 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.86%) REST
2 1 (0.86%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.14%) Data Centre
2 19 (16.38%) Replication
3 18 (15.52%) PKI
4 15 (12.93%) Public Cloud
5 14 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.76%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (6.90%) Clustering
7 8 (6.90%) EMC VMAX
7 8 (6.90%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (5.17%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.72%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.86%) HP Storage
10 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.86%) Social Media
10 1 (0.86%) Symmetrix
10 1 (0.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (40.52%) Linux
2 38 (32.76%) Windows
3 10 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.17%) VMS
5 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.31%) Unix
6 4 (3.45%) SUSE
7 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.72%) Migration
2 26 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (22.41%) Platform Engineering
2 26 (22.41%) Technical Leadership
3 25 (21.55%) Network Virtualisation
4 24 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (18.10%) CI/CD
6 20 (17.24%) Mentoring
6 20 (17.24%) SIEM
7 18 (15.52%) DevSecOps
8 16 (13.79%) Converged Infrastructure
9 14 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (11.21%) High Availability
10 13 (11.21%) Systems Engineering
11 12 (10.34%) Agile
11 12 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
11 12 (10.34%) Validation
12 11 (9.48%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (9.48%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 25 (21.55%) Python
3 18 (15.52%) Bash
4 1 (0.86%) Bicep
4 1 (0.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (57.76%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.34%) DV Cleared
3 38 (32.76%) SC Cleared
4 31 (26.72%) VCAP
5 29 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (9.48%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (7.76%) CCNP
8 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
9 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
9 5 (4.31%) CCSE
9 5 (4.31%) CCSM
10 4 (3.45%) HP ASE
11 3 (2.59%) Degree
12 2 (1.72%) NCDA
12 2 (1.72%) NCIE
13 1 (0.86%) CCNA
13 1 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) NCSC
1 6 (5.17%) NIST
2 5 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (4.31%) SLA
3 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 91 (78.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 80 (68.97%) VMware NSX
3 72 (62.07%) vSphere
4 57 (49.14%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (18.10%) Hyper-V
6 20 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (13.79%) Active Directory
8 11 (9.48%) Docker
9 8 (6.90%) NFS
9 8 (6.90%) SRDF
10 6 (5.17%) GPFS
11 3 (2.59%) Firmware
12 2 (1.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (40.52%) vCenter Server
2 32 (27.59%) VxRail
3 30 (25.86%) Ansible
4 27 (23.28%) Terraform
5 25 (21.55%) Kubernetes
6 15 (12.93%) vRealize
7 11 (9.48%) PowerCLI
8 6 (5.17%) EMC TimeFinder
8 6 (5.17%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (2.59%) Grafana
9 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
9 3 (2.59%) vMotion
9 3 (2.59%) WSUS
10 2 (1.72%) Argo
10 2 (1.72%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.72%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (1.72%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.72%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.72%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 110 (94.83%) VMware
2 27 (23.28%) Cisco
3 15 (12.93%) Broadcom
4 14 (12.07%) Dell
5 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
6 10 (8.62%) Palo Alto
7 9 (7.76%) Pure Storage
8 8 (6.90%) Brocade
8 8 (6.90%) Oracle
9 6 (5.17%) EMC
9 6 (5.17%) IBM
9 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.31%) CheckPoint
10 5 (4.31%) Fortinet
10 5 (4.31%) NVIDIA
10 5 (4.31%) Red Hat
10 5 (4.31%) Veeam
11 3 (2.59%) CyberArk
11 3 (2.59%) Thales
11 3 (2.59%) Zerto