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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 470 520
Rank change year-on-year -44 +50 +82
Contract jobs citing VSAN 95 49 77
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.15% 1.28% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 27 48
10th Percentile £305 £495 £460
25th Percentile £400 £554 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £613 £646 £647
90th Percentile £644 £694 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £629 £515
% change year-on-year -24.49% +22.14% -1.90%
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 4,409 3,818 5,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 13.11% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,840 2,370 3,543
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 145 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.94
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £43.12
% change year-on-year +29.05% -24.62% +128.00%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -73 78 £550 -10.20% 24
UK excluding London -67 54 £475 -24.49% 16
Work from Home -21 31 £505 -19.08% 11
London -46 22 £575 -4.17% 7
Midlands - 19 £316 - 1
South East -49 18 £600 -4.62% 8
West Midlands - 17 £314 -
North of England -62 9 £370 - 6
North West - 7 £370 - 6
Scotland - 3 £388 -
South West -32 2 £505 -25.19% 1
Yorkshire -60 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
Wales - 2 - -
East of England -31 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 (9.47%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.05%) JBoss
3 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.26%) AWS
2 21 (22.11%) Azure
3 12 (12.63%) Datadog
4 7 (7.37%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.16%) GCP
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.32%) Firewall
1 6 (6.32%) SAN
2 5 (5.26%) DNS
2 5 (5.26%) FCoE
2 5 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (5.26%) iSCSI
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (3.16%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (3.16%) Network Security
3 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.16%) VXLAN
3 3 (3.16%) WAN
4 2 (2.11%) BGP
4 2 (2.11%) Calico
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.11%) DMZ
4 2 (2.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (2.11%) LAN
4 2 (2.11%) PCoIP
4 2 (2.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
1 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) GitLab
2 3 (3.16%) JIRA
General
1 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Finance
3 8 (8.42%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Architect
2 17 (17.89%) Analyst
2 17 (17.89%) VMware Engineer
3 16 (16.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 15 (15.79%) Senior
5 14 (14.74%) Consultant
6 10 (10.53%) VMware Consultant
7 8 (8.42%) Storage Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) SAN Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Senior Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) VMware Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Technical Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Server Engineer
11 2 (2.11%) Migration Engineer
11 2 (2.11%) Senior Consultant
11 2 (2.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) Flash
2 2 (2.11%) LDAP
3 1 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (12.63%) Data Centre
3 11 (11.58%) Replication
4 8 (8.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (7.37%) PKI
6 6 (6.32%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
8 4 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
9 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.11%) Clustering
10 2 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 2 (2.11%) VxBlock/Vblock
11 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (1.05%) Fat Client
11 1 (1.05%) RSA SecurID
11 1 (1.05%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 37 (38.95%) Linux
2 15 (15.79%) Windows
3 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.21%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.05%) Solaris
7 1 (1.05%) Unix
7 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.21%) Migration
2 18 (18.95%) Agile
3 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
5 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (10.53%) Virtual Environments
7 9 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (8.42%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.42%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (8.42%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 7 (7.37%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (7.37%) Storage Management
10 6 (6.32%) Decision-Making
10 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (6.32%) Knowledge Transfer
11 5 (5.26%) Containerisation
11 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.63%) PowerShell
1 12 (12.63%) Python
2 5 (5.26%) Bash
3 4 (4.21%) SQL
4 3 (3.16%) Go
5 2 (2.11%) C
6 1 (1.05%) Perl
6 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.74%) DV Cleared
3 14 (14.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (10.53%) VCAP
5 9 (9.47%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.42%) CCNP
7 5 (5.26%) Degree
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%) CISSP
11 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (6.32%) NCSC
1 6 (6.32%) NIST
2 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.11%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.11%) SLA
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 64 (67.37%) VMware Infrastructure
1 64 (67.37%) vSphere
2 54 (56.84%) VMware NSX
3 25 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (7.37%) SRDF
5 6 (6.32%) NFS
5 6 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.21%) Active Directory
6 4 (4.21%) GPFS
7 3 (3.16%) Docker
8 2 (2.11%) vCloud
8 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (22.11%) VxRail
2 19 (20.00%) vRealize
3 18 (18.95%) vCenter Server
4 13 (13.68%) Ansible
5 6 (6.32%) EMC TimeFinder
5 6 (6.32%) Terraform
6 5 (5.26%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.26%) WSUS
7 4 (4.21%) PowerCLI
8 2 (2.11%) Check_MK
8 2 (2.11%) Istio
8 2 (2.11%) Nessus
9 1 (1.05%) Argo
9 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.05%) Grafana
9 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.05%) SCCM
9 1 (1.05%) SCOM
9 1 (1.05%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 89 (93.68%) VMware
2 39 (41.05%) Cisco
3 26 (27.37%) Dell
4 17 (17.89%) IBM
5 12 (12.63%) AppDynamics
5 12 (12.63%) Commvault
5 12 (12.63%) Palo Alto
5 12 (12.63%) SolarWinds
6 11 (11.58%) HP
7 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
7 10 (10.53%) Red Hat
8 8 (8.42%) Broadcom
9 7 (7.37%) Pure Storage
10 6 (6.32%) Brocade
11 5 (5.26%) EMC
11 5 (5.26%) NVIDIA
11 5 (5.26%) Oracle
12 4 (4.21%) Fortinet
12 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.21%) Splunk