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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 515 497
Rank change year-on-year -68 -18 +75
Contract jobs citing VSAN 89 44 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.76% 1.17% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 26 48
10th Percentile £358 £500 £376
25th Percentile £519 £516 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.16% +13.04%
75th Percentile £700 £607 £556
90th Percentile £800 £656 £561
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +10.91% +4.76% +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £75.00 - -
25th Percentile £83.77 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £99.29 - -
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 5,057 3,755 4,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.30% 11.44% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,917 2,352 2,625
10th Percentile £234 £219 £226
25th Percentile £390 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 200 217
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.11 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% -15.84% -10.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -34.12% -25.89% -0.26%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -80 83 £605 +10.00% 28
UK excluding London -53 70 £610 +10.91% 19
Work from Home -32 32 £600 +4.35% 12
South West -18 25 £700 +20.43% 8
South East -56 22 £610 +10.91% 2
London -81 11 £600 +6.67% 7
Midlands -36 9 £395 +8.09% 2
West Midlands -38 8 £263 -27.99%
North of England -65 6 £400 - 6
East of England - 6 £433 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £519 -
North West -56 2 £316 - 5
Scotland - 2 £375 -
East Midlands -15 1 £526 - 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 4 (4.49%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) MS Project Server
3 1 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) AWS
2 21 (23.60%) Azure
3 4 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.37%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.25%) Datadog
5 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.25%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.25%) OCI
5 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.60%) DNS
1 21 (23.60%) Firewall
2 18 (20.22%) TCP/IP
3 17 (19.10%) DHCP
4 5 (5.62%) BGP
5 4 (4.49%) VLAN
6 3 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.37%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (3.37%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.37%) OSPF
6 3 (3.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (3.37%) VPN
7 2 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.25%) LAN
7 2 (2.25%) NAS
7 2 (2.25%) Network Security
7 2 (2.25%) SAN
7 2 (2.25%) WAN
8 1 (1.12%) H.323
8 1 (1.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.12%) GitLab
2 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 11 (12.36%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.99%) Finance
2 8 (8.99%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.49%) Retail
5 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Local Government
7 1 (1.12%) Advertising
7 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Senior
1 23 (25.84%) VMware Engineer
2 19 (21.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (20.22%) Platform Engineer
4 14 (15.73%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) Architect
6 8 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Network Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Consultant
8 6 (6.74%) VMware Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 4 (4.49%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (35.96%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) Flash
3 1 (1.12%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.12%) REST
3 1 (1.12%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.58%) Data Centre
2 14 (15.73%) PKI
2 14 (15.73%) Public Cloud
3 13 (14.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (7.87%) Replication
5 6 (6.74%) Private Cloud
6 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.25%) Clustering
8 2 (2.25%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.25%) EMC VNX
8 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.25%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.12%) Social Media
9 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.46%) Linux
2 27 (30.34%) Windows
3 5 (5.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.49%) Unix
5 2 (2.25%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (29.21%) Platform Engineering
3 25 (28.09%) Technical Leadership
4 23 (25.84%) Network Virtualisation
5 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (23.60%) Migration
6 19 (21.35%) SIEM
7 18 (20.22%) CI/CD
7 18 (20.22%) Mentoring
8 15 (16.85%) Agile
8 15 (16.85%) DevSecOps
9 14 (15.73%) Converged Infrastructure
9 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (15.73%) Systems Engineering
10 13 (14.61%) Customer Requirements
11 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (12.36%) Load Balancing
13 10 (11.24%) DevOps
14 9 (10.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.84%) PowerShell
2 19 (21.35%) Python
3 17 (19.10%) Bash
4 1 (1.12%) Bicep
4 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (69.66%) Security Cleared
2 37 (41.57%) DV Cleared
3 35 (39.33%) SC Cleared
4 31 (34.83%) VCAP
5 27 (30.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (8.99%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.37%) CCNP
8 3 (3.37%) CCSE
8 3 (3.37%) CCSM
8 3 (3.37%) Degree
9 2 (2.25%) NCDA
9 2 (2.25%) NCIE
10 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) NIST
1 3 (3.37%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (84.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 72 (80.90%) VMware NSX
3 58 (65.17%) vSphere
4 43 (48.31%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (19.10%) Active Directory
5 17 (19.10%) Hyper-V
6 12 (13.48%) Docker
7 6 (6.74%) NFS
8 5 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (4.49%) GPFS
10 2 (2.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.25%) SRDF
11 1 (1.12%) KVM
11 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (44.94%) vCenter Server
2 30 (33.71%) Kubernetes
3 28 (31.46%) Ansible
4 26 (29.21%) VxRail
5 11 (12.36%) vRealize
6 9 (10.11%) PowerCLI
7 3 (3.37%) Grafana
7 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.25%) Argo
8 2 (2.25%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (2.25%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (2.25%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.25%) SnapMirror
8 2 (2.25%) SnapVault
8 2 (2.25%) vMotion
9 1 (1.12%) Avamar
9 1 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.12%) OPNET
Vendors
1 89 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (14.61%) Cisco
3 8 (8.99%) Broadcom
3 8 (8.99%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.87%) Oracle
5 5 (5.62%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.49%) IBM
6 4 (4.49%) SaltStack
6 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.37%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.37%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.37%) Thales
7 3 (3.37%) Veeam
8 2 (2.25%) 3PAR
8 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.25%) Brocade
8 2 (2.25%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.25%) SolarWinds