VSAN Contracts

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VSAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAN over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 513 591
Rank change year-on-year +27 +78 +180
Contract jobs citing VSAN 53 77 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.36% 1.42% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 55 67
10th Percentile £485 £406 £388
25th Percentile £500 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £609 £556 £575
90th Percentile £661 £646 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.13
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £68.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.13
% change year-on-year - - +12.54%

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 3,890 5,433 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 3,208 4,616
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 428 433
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Hourly rate trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 12 Contract 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 3 July 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 +33 46 £575 +15.00% 40
UK excluding London -5 28 £550 +10.00% 21
London +50 15 £600 - 18
South East +31 13 £575 +15.00% 6
Work from Home +28 7 £550 +15.79% 16
South West +8 7 £675 +28.57% 5
East of England +27 5 £550 +83.33%
Midlands - 2 £365 - 2
North of England +5 1 - - 8
North West +5 1 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 £365 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -

VSAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.89%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) GitHub
2 6 (11.32%) IaaS
2 6 (11.32%) OpenShift
3 5 (9.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.77%) AWS
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.89%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.89%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.89%) PaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Route 53
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.87%) DNS
2 9 (16.98%) Firewall
3 6 (11.32%) Network Security
3 6 (11.32%) SAN
4 5 (9.43%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (7.55%) BGP
5 4 (7.55%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (7.55%) IPv6
5 4 (7.55%) OSPF
5 4 (7.55%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (7.55%) TACACS
6 3 (5.66%) VLAN
6 3 (5.66%) VPN
7 2 (3.77%) DHCP
7 2 (3.77%) FTP
7 2 (3.77%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.77%) WAN
8 1 (1.89%) LAN
8 1 (1.89%) NAS
8 1 (1.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) GitLab
General
1 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.66%) Billing
3 3 (5.66%) Finance
4 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) French Language
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) VMware Engineer
2 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Consultant
5 5 (9.43%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (5.66%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) VMware Architect
7 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Flash
1 2 (3.77%) YAML
2 1 (1.89%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (13.21%) Data Centre
3 6 (11.32%) Clustering
4 5 (9.43%) Replication
5 4 (7.55%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.55%) PKI
6 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.89%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.89%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.19%) Linux
1 16 (30.19%) Windows
2 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
3 7 (13.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (9.43%) Windows 10
6 4 (7.55%) Ubuntu
7 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (3.77%) CentOS
9 1 (1.89%) SUSE
9 1 (1.89%) Unix
9 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (18.87%) Migration
3 9 (16.98%) Network Virtualisation
3 9 (16.98%) Project Delivery
4 8 (15.09%) High Availability
5 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
6 5 (9.43%) Agile
6 5 (9.43%) Runbook
6 5 (9.43%) Waterfall
7 4 (7.55%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (7.55%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (7.55%) Power Management
7 4 (7.55%) Software Engineering
7 4 (7.55%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
7 4 (7.55%) Zero Trust
8 3 (5.66%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (5.66%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.09%) Python
3 4 (7.55%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Bash
4 1 (1.89%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (45.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.96%) DV Cleared
3 13 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 13 (24.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (11.32%) VCAP
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.77%) CCNA
7 2 (3.77%) CISSP
7 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.77%) RHCE
7 2 (3.77%) VCDX
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.89%) CCDP
8 1 (1.89%) CCNP
8 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.89%) Degree
8 1 (1.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) GDPR
1 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.89%) NCSC
1 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (73.58%) vSphere
2 32 (60.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (58.49%) VMware NSX
4 20 (37.74%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (30.19%) Active Directory
6 7 (13.21%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (11.32%) Hyper-V
8 4 (7.55%) Ceph
9 1 (1.89%) Firmware
9 1 (1.89%) KVM
9 1 (1.89%) SRDF
9 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (43.40%) vCenter Server
2 12 (22.64%) PowerCLI
3 10 (18.87%) VxRail
4 9 (16.98%) Ansible
5 6 (11.32%) vRealize
6 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
6 5 (9.43%) Terraform
6 5 (9.43%) WSUS
7 3 (5.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (5.66%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (5.66%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (3.77%) Argo
9 1 (1.89%) Grafana
9 1 (1.89%) Istio
9 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.89%) Puppet
9 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.89%) vMotion
9 1 (1.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 49 (92.45%) VMware
2 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
3 14 (26.42%) Dell
4 10 (18.87%) Red Hat
5 9 (16.98%) Cisco
6 5 (9.43%) Veeam
7 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
7 4 (7.55%) Symantec
8 3 (5.66%) HP
8 3 (5.66%) Infoblox
8 3 (5.66%) NetApp
9 2 (3.77%) EMC
9 2 (3.77%) Ericsson
9 2 (3.77%) Juniper
9 2 (3.77%) Mavenir
9 2 (3.77%) NETGEAR
9 2 (3.77%) Nokia
9 2 (3.77%) TP-LINK
10 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.89%) Zerto