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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 482 562
Rank change year-on-year -32 +80 +109
Contract jobs citing VSAN 58 69 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.46% 1.58% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 47 52
10th Percentile £306 £393 £300
25th Percentile £381 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +4.37% -4.63%
75th Percentile £594 £560 £588
90th Percentile £658 £629 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -1.23%

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 3,981 4,373 6,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.34% 12.05% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,577 2,528 4,107
10th Percentile £205 £225 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £687 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 161 344
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.42 £25.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.50 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% -13.64% +30.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.00% -11.49% +25.53%

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 17 November 2025.

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
Top 13 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 17 November 2025. 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 -57 50 £550 +2.33% 14
UK excluding London -41 41 £550 +2.33% 12
South East -4 17 £550 +7.59% 4
Work from Home -1 15 £538 -2.27% 11
Midlands - 12 £314 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £314 - 2
London -3 10 £575 +17.95% 3
North of England -37 6 - - 1
North West -21 4 - - 1
South West -8 3 £613 +13.95% 4
Scotland - 3 £388 -
Yorkshire -36 2 - -
East Midlands - 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 7 (12.07%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) Azure
2 13 (22.41%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Datadog
4 6 (10.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.72%) Route 53
7 1 (1.72%) Serverless
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) DNS
2 6 (10.34%) Firewall
3 5 (8.62%) DHCP
3 5 (8.62%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (6.90%) iSCSI
4 4 (6.90%) PCoIP
4 4 (6.90%) SAN
4 4 (6.90%) VLAN
4 4 (6.90%) VPN
4 4 (6.90%) WAN
5 3 (5.17%) BGP
5 3 (5.17%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (5.17%) Skype
5 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.45%) IPv6
6 2 (3.45%) NAS
6 2 (3.45%) Network Security
6 2 (3.45%) OSPF
6 2 (3.45%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (3.45%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Finance
6 2 (3.45%) French Language
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Architect
2 9 (15.52%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (12.07%) Consultant
4 7 (12.07%) VMware Architect
4 7 (12.07%) VMware Consultant
5 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Azure Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Senior
6 4 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Storage Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.72%) Middleware
2 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Data Centre
2 10 (17.24%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (10.34%) PKI
5 4 (6.90%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.90%) Replication
6 3 (5.17%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Clustering
8 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.72%) Fat Client
8 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.72%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (1.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (39.66%) Linux
2 13 (22.41%) Windows
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (8.62%) Ubuntu
4 5 (8.62%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.17%) CentOS
6 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.72%) SUSE
7 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.97%) Migration
1 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (15.52%) Agile
3 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
4 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
5 5 (8.62%) Virtual Environments
6 4 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (6.90%) Data Protection
6 4 (6.90%) High Availability
6 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (6.90%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (6.90%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (6.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 3 (5.17%) Decision-Making
7 3 (5.17%) Runbook
7 3 (5.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
1 7 (12.07%) Python
1 7 (12.07%) SQL
2 4 (6.90%) Bash
3 3 (5.17%) Go
4 2 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.62%) VCDX
6 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (6.90%) VCAP
7 3 (5.17%) CCNP
7 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.17%) Degree
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.45%) MCSE
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.72%) CCDP
9 1 (1.72%) CISSP
9 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) NCSC
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
2 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
System Software
1 46 (79.31%) vSphere
2 41 (70.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (48.28%) VMware NSX
4 16 (27.59%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
6 5 (8.62%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (6.90%) NFS
8 3 (5.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (5.17%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (3.45%) Ceph
9 2 (3.45%) Docker
9 2 (3.45%) Firmware
9 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
10 1 (1.72%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) vCenter Server
2 14 (24.14%) VxRail
3 10 (17.24%) vRealize
4 9 (15.52%) Ansible
5 6 (10.34%) PowerCLI
6 5 (8.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (8.62%) Terraform
7 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
7 3 (5.17%) OPNET
8 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.72%) Argo
9 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.72%) Grafana
9 1 (1.72%) Podman
9 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.72%) vMotion
Vendors
1 56 (96.55%) VMware
2 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
3 15 (25.86%) Cisco
3 15 (25.86%) Dell
4 10 (17.24%) IBM
5 9 (15.52%) AppDynamics
5 9 (15.52%) Commvault
5 9 (15.52%) SolarWinds
6 7 (12.07%) HP
6 7 (12.07%) NetApp
7 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.62%) Veeam
8 3 (5.17%) Splunk
9 2 (3.45%) EMC
9 2 (3.45%) F5
9 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.72%) NVIDIA
10 1 (1.72%) SevOne
10 1 (1.72%) Zerto