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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 470 509
Rank change year-on-year -75 +39 +55
Contract jobs citing VSAN 100 52 63
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.09% 1.41% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 31 42
10th Percentile £328 £495 £420
25th Percentile £456 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £610 £608 £644
90th Percentile £649 £661 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £558 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -2.19% +14.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £77.70 - -
25th Percentile £79.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £93.13 - -
90th Percentile £96.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 4,781 3,676 5,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 12.63% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,932 2,279 3,247
10th Percentile £263 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £477
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.52% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 160 413
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.67 £16.30
Median hourly rate £28.96 £40.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.49% +1.25% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.93 £80.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.70 £45.88
% change year-on-year +5.86% -33.09% +151.88%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 89 £550 -4.35% 9
UK excluding London -74 53 £558 -2.19% 5
Work from Home -18 41 £550 -2.22% 4
London -58 29 £525 -12.50% 5
South East -46 27 £605 +5.22% 3
North of England -67 11 £519 - 1
Midlands - 10 £315 -
North West -35 9 £427 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £305 -
South West -36 2 £505 -25.19% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £519 -
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
East of England -35 1 £350 -36.36%
Wales - 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 5 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) CMS
3 1 (1.00%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.00%) AWS
2 22 (22.00%) Azure
3 7 (7.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Stack
5 4 (4.00%) Datadog
6 2 (2.00%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.00%) GitHub
6 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.00%) GCP
7 1 (1.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.00%) SAN
2 7 (7.00%) VLAN
3 5 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (5.00%) FCoE
3 5 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.00%) Firewall
3 5 (5.00%) iSCSI
4 4 (4.00%) NAS
4 4 (4.00%) Network Security
4 4 (4.00%) VPN
5 3 (3.00%) WAN
6 2 (2.00%) Calico
6 2 (2.00%) DHCP
6 2 (2.00%) DNS
6 2 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (2.00%) LAN
6 2 (2.00%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.00%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) GitLab
2 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 21 (21.00%) Finance
2 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.00%) Retail
5 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Advertising
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) VMware Engineer
2 22 (22.00%) Senior
3 16 (16.00%) Architect
4 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (14.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 11 (11.00%) Analyst
6 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 10 (10.00%) Consultant
8 9 (9.00%) Storage Analyst
9 6 (6.00%) Network Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
9 6 (6.00%) VMware Consultant
9 6 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) NOC Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) VMware Architect
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) Flash
2 2 (2.00%) REST
3 1 (1.00%) LDAP
3 1 (1.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Replication
2 16 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (13.00%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (11.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (8.00%) EMC VMAX
5 8 (8.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (6.00%) Clustering
6 6 (6.00%) Private Cloud
6 6 (6.00%) Public Cloud
7 5 (5.00%) PKI
8 4 (4.00%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.00%) EMC VNX
9 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
10 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (1.00%) Social Media
10 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (35.00%) Linux
2 21 (21.00%) Windows
3 9 (9.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.00%) VMS
6 5 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.00%) Unix
7 4 (4.00%) SUSE
8 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.00%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.00%) Migration
2 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (13.00%) Storage Management
4 11 (11.00%) Agile
4 11 (11.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (11.00%) ITIL
4 11 (11.00%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (11.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (10.00%) High Availability
6 9 (9.00%) Capacity Planning
6 9 (9.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (9.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 8 (8.00%) Change Management
7 8 (8.00%) Load Balancing
7 8 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (8.00%) Ticket Management
7 8 (8.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (13.00%) Python
2 5 (5.00%) Bash
3 2 (2.00%) C
3 2 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 23 (23.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 20 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 17 (17.00%) VCAP
6 11 (11.00%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (9.00%) CCNP
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 5 (5.00%) CCSE
8 5 (5.00%) CCSM
9 4 (4.00%) HP ASE
10 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (3.00%) Degree
11 2 (2.00%) NCDA
11 2 (2.00%) NCIE
11 2 (2.00%) VCDX
12 1 (1.00%) CCNA
12 1 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (6.00%) NCSC
1 6 (6.00%) NIST
2 5 (5.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 72 (72.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 65 (65.00%) vSphere
3 60 (60.00%) VMware NSX
4 49 (49.00%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (10.00%) NFS
7 9 (9.00%) Hyper-V
7 9 (9.00%) SRDF
8 8 (8.00%) GPFS
9 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
10 3 (3.00%) Firmware
11 2 (2.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (2.00%) vCloud
12 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (32.00%) vCenter Server
2 18 (18.00%) VxRail
3 16 (16.00%) vRealize
4 12 (12.00%) Ansible
5 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
6 10 (10.00%) PowerCLI
7 6 (6.00%) EMC TimeFinder
7 6 (6.00%) Terraform
8 4 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (4.00%) WSUS
9 3 (3.00%) Grafana
9 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.00%) Argo
10 2 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (2.00%) Istio
10 2 (2.00%) SnapMirror
10 2 (2.00%) SnapVault
10 2 (2.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 94 (94.00%) VMware
2 34 (34.00%) Cisco
3 21 (21.00%) Dell
4 12 (12.00%) Broadcom
5 11 (11.00%) Palo Alto
6 10 (10.00%) IBM
6 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 9 (9.00%) Pure Storage
8 8 (8.00%) Brocade
8 8 (8.00%) Oracle
8 8 (8.00%) Red Hat
8 8 (8.00%) ServiceNow
9 7 (7.00%) EMC
10 6 (6.00%) Fortinet
11 5 (5.00%) CheckPoint
11 5 (5.00%) NVIDIA
12 4 (4.00%) SolarWinds
12 4 (4.00%) Veeam
13 3 (3.00%) HP
13 3 (3.00%) NetApp