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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 519 502
Rank change year-on-year -67 -17 +67
Contract jobs citing VSAN 94 46 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.86% 1.22% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 27 51
10th Percentile £361 £500 £363
25th Percentile £506 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £511
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.59% +9.88%
75th Percentile £663 £619 £556
90th Percentile £800 £655 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 3,773 4,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.31% 11.55% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,928 2,343 2,660
10th Percentile £231 £225 £227
25th Percentile £393 £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 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 200 244
10th Percentile £14.14 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.39 £42.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.44% -15.42% -11.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -26.47% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -73 88 £600 +9.09% 43
UK excluding London -63 72 £605 +10.00% 28
Work from Home -39 32 £588 +4.44% 18
South West -21 25 £700 +20.43% 10
South East -59 22 £610 +10.91% 6
London -82 14 £563 -2.17% 11
North of England -60 10 £519 - 6
Midlands -41 7 £263 -27.99% 3
West Midlands -41 6 £263 -28.04%
North West -46 6 £427 - 4
East of England - 6 £433 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £519 - 2
Scotland - 2 £375 -
East Midlands -14 1 £526 - 3

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 (4.26%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.06%) CMS
3 1 (1.06%) MS Project Server
3 1 (1.06%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.98%) AWS
2 26 (27.66%) Azure
3 6 (6.38%) Azure Stack
4 4 (4.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.19%) GCP
6 2 (2.13%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.13%) Datadog
6 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.13%) GitHub
6 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.13%) OCI
6 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.06%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 23 (24.47%) Firewall
2 21 (22.34%) DNS
3 18 (19.15%) TCP/IP
4 17 (18.09%) DHCP
5 10 (10.64%) VLAN
6 6 (6.38%) VPN
7 5 (5.32%) Network Security
8 4 (4.26%) BGP
8 4 (4.26%) NAS
8 4 (4.26%) SAN
9 3 (3.19%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (3.19%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (3.19%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (3.19%) OSPF
9 3 (3.19%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (2.13%) LAN
10 2 (2.13%) WAN
11 1 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
11 1 (1.06%) H.323
11 1 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.51%) Finance
3 7 (7.45%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.26%) Retail
6 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Advertising
7 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Local Government
8 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Senior
2 24 (25.53%) VMware Engineer
3 20 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (19.15%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (18.09%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Architect
7 8 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Network Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Consultant
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) VMware Consultant
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 4 (4.26%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (32.98%) Terraform
2 4 (4.26%) Flash
3 1 (1.06%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.06%) REST
3 1 (1.06%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.60%) Data Centre
2 14 (14.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (14.89%) PKI
3 13 (13.83%) Public Cloud
3 13 (13.83%) Replication
4 7 (7.45%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (6.38%) Clustering
6 4 (4.26%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.13%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.13%) EMC VNX
8 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.13%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.06%) Social Media
9 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (37.23%) Linux
2 33 (35.11%) Windows
3 7 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.32%) VMS
6 4 (4.26%) SUSE
6 4 (4.26%) Unix
7 2 (2.13%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (29.79%) Platform Engineering
3 25 (26.60%) Migration
3 25 (26.60%) Network Virtualisation
3 25 (26.60%) Technical Leadership
4 22 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (20.21%) SIEM
6 18 (19.15%) CI/CD
6 18 (19.15%) Mentoring
7 17 (18.09%) Converged Infrastructure
8 15 (15.96%) Agile
8 15 (15.96%) DevSecOps
9 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (14.89%) Systems Engineering
10 13 (13.83%) Customer Requirements
11 12 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (11.70%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (11.70%) Load Balancing
12 11 (11.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.91%) PowerShell
2 21 (22.34%) Python
3 19 (20.21%) Bash
4 1 (1.06%) Bicep
4 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (68.09%) Security Cleared
2 37 (39.36%) DV Cleared
3 34 (36.17%) SC Cleared
4 31 (32.98%) VCAP
5 26 (27.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (8.51%) AWS Certification
7 6 (6.38%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.19%) CCNP
9 3 (3.19%) CCSE
9 3 (3.19%) CCSM
9 3 (3.19%) Degree
10 2 (2.13%) NCDA
10 2 (2.13%) NCIE
11 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.06%) NCSC
3 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (84.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 71 (75.53%) VMware NSX
3 68 (72.34%) vSphere
4 51 (54.26%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (22.34%) Hyper-V
6 17 (18.09%) Active Directory
7 15 (15.96%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (11.70%) Docker
9 6 (6.38%) NFS
10 4 (4.26%) GPFS
11 3 (3.19%) Firmware
12 2 (2.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (2.13%) SRDF
13 1 (1.06%) KVM
13 1 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (48.94%) vCenter Server
2 31 (32.98%) Ansible
3 30 (31.91%) Kubernetes
4 29 (30.85%) VxRail
5 14 (14.89%) PowerCLI
6 13 (13.83%) vRealize
7 6 (6.38%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.19%) Grafana
8 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.19%) vMotion
9 2 (2.13%) Argo
9 2 (2.13%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.13%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.13%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.13%) SnapMirror
9 2 (2.13%) SnapVault
10 1 (1.06%) Avamar
10 1 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.06%) OPNET
Vendors
1 94 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (13.83%) Cisco
3 8 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.45%) Broadcom
4 7 (7.45%) Oracle
5 6 (6.38%) Dell
6 5 (5.32%) Veeam
7 4 (4.26%) IBM
7 4 (4.26%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.26%) SaltStack
7 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.19%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.19%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.19%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.19%) Thales
8 3 (3.19%) Zerto
9 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.13%) Brocade
9 2 (2.13%) NetApp
9 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds