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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 495 524
Rank change year-on-year -29 +29 +93
Contract jobs citing VSAN 77 42 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.82% 1.04% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 21 43
10th Percentile £304 £500 £413
25th Percentile £381 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +6.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £593 £661 £668
90th Percentile £650 £703 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -24.60% +14.55% +4.76%
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 4,234 4,045 5,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 13.28% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,764 2,425 3,532
10th Percentile £204 £209 £205
25th Percentile £358 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +3.63% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -1.06% -1.05% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 131 383
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.44 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £19.99
Median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -27.78% +131.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.24 £30.04 £50.00
% change year-on-year +37.28% -39.92% +163.16%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -54 60 £550 -10.57% 21
UK excluding London -57 42 £475 -24.60% 14
Work from Home 0 28 £530 -15.61% 8
Midlands - 17 £314 - 3
London -47 16 £575 -4.17% 8
West Midlands - 16 £313 - 2
South East -41 12 £550 -12.56% 6
North of England -59 5 £370 - 1
North West -35 3 £370 - 1
Scotland - 3 £388 -
South West -27 2 £505 -25.19% 4
Yorkshire -59 2 - -
Wales - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
East of England - 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 10 (12.99%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.30%) JBoss
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) AWS
2 17 (22.08%) Azure
3 12 (15.58%) Datadog
4 7 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.90%) GCP
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (9.09%) iSCSI
2 6 (7.79%) SAN
3 5 (6.49%) DNS
3 5 (6.49%) FCoE
3 5 (6.49%) Firewall
4 3 (3.90%) Network Security
4 3 (3.90%) PCoIP
4 3 (3.90%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.90%) WAN
5 2 (2.60%) Calico
5 2 (2.60%) LAN
5 2 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.60%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (1.30%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) MariaDB
1 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (5.19%) GitLab
2 3 (3.90%) JIRA
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Architect
2 15 (19.48%) Analyst
3 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 11 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
5 10 (12.99%) Consultant
5 10 (12.99%) VMware Consultant
6 8 (10.39%) Senior
6 8 (10.39%) VMware Architect
7 6 (7.79%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Storage Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.90%) VMware Specialist
10 2 (2.60%) Cloud Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Cloud Specialist
10 2 (2.60%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Principal Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Support Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.19%) Flash
2 2 (2.60%) LDAP
3 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (11.69%) Replication
3 8 (10.39%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.79%) EMC VMAX
4 6 (7.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.19%) PKI
7 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.60%) Clustering
8 2 (2.60%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.60%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (1.30%) Fat Client
9 1 (1.30%) HP Storage
9 1 (1.30%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (1.30%) Symmetrix
9 1 (1.30%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.47%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Windows
3 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.30%) Solaris
7 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.38%) Migration
2 16 (20.78%) Agile
3 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
5 9 (11.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 8 (10.39%) Virtual Environments
7 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (7.79%) Decision-Making
8 6 (7.79%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (6.49%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (6.49%) Storage Management
10 4 (5.19%) Containerisation
10 4 (5.19%) Network Virtualisation
10 4 (5.19%) Roadmaps
10 4 (5.19%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) Python
2 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.49%) Bash
3 5 (6.49%) SQL
4 3 (3.90%) Go
5 2 (2.60%) C
5 2 (2.60%) VBA
6 1 (1.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (11.69%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 7 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (7.79%) CCNP
7 5 (6.49%) Degree
7 5 (6.49%) VCAP
7 5 (6.49%) VCDX
8 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (5.19%) HP ASE
9 2 (2.60%) MCSE
9 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.30%) CCIE
10 1 (1.30%) CCNA
10 1 (1.30%) CCSM
10 1 (1.30%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (1.30%) CISSP
10 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.90%) NCSC
2 3 (3.90%) NIST
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (72.73%) vSphere
2 46 (59.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (53.25%) VMware NSX
4 16 (20.78%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (9.09%) SRDF
6 6 (7.79%) NFS
7 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
8 3 (3.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.60%) Docker
9 2 (2.60%) GPFS
9 2 (2.60%) vCloud
9 2 (2.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (22.08%) vRealize
2 16 (20.78%) VxRail
3 14 (18.18%) vCenter Server
4 8 (10.39%) Ansible
5 6 (7.79%) EMC TimeFinder
6 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.19%) Terraform
7 2 (2.60%) Check_MK
7 2 (2.60%) Istio
7 2 (2.60%) Nessus
7 2 (2.60%) WSUS
8 1 (1.30%) Argo
8 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.30%) Grafana
8 1 (1.30%) Podman
8 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.30%) SCCM
8 1 (1.30%) SCOM
8 1 (1.30%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 71 (92.21%) VMware
2 33 (42.86%) Cisco
3 24 (31.17%) Dell
4 15 (19.48%) IBM
5 12 (15.58%) AppDynamics
5 12 (15.58%) Commvault
5 12 (15.58%) SolarWinds
6 11 (14.29%) HP
6 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 10 (12.99%) Red Hat
8 7 (9.09%) Palo Alto
8 7 (9.09%) Pure Storage
9 6 (7.79%) Brocade
10 5 (6.49%) Broadcom
10 5 (6.49%) EMC
10 5 (6.49%) Splunk
11 4 (5.19%) NetApp
11 4 (5.19%) Veeam
12 3 (3.90%) Oracle
13 2 (2.60%) Wind River