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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 496 573
Rank change year-on-year -26 +77 +141
Contract jobs citing VSAN 46 63 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.21% 1.38% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 51 55
10th Percentile £500 £363 £300
25th Percentile £516 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £455
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% +12.24% -13.25%
75th Percentile £622 £556 £563
90th Percentile £656 £563 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £455
% change year-on-year +4.76% +15.27% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £69.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 3,796 4,572 6,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.52% 11.87% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,354 2,662 4,158
10th Percentile £225 £225 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £679 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.50% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 254 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £16.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.37 £22.94
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%

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
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 18 September 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 11 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 18 September 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 -1 44 £550 +7.59% 16
UK excluding London -18 30 £550 +4.76% 15
South East +26 17 £550 +10.00% 6
London +15 12 £575 +21.05% 3
Work from Home +22 8 £563 +13.07% 10
South West +11 8 £581 +8.14% 4
North West -14 3 - - 3
North of England -16 3 - - 5
Midlands - 2 £365 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £365 -

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 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.74%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.35%) AWS
5 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) IaaS
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.17%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Route 53
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) DNS
2 8 (17.39%) Firewall
3 7 (15.22%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (13.04%) SAN
5 4 (8.70%) BGP
5 4 (8.70%) DHCP
5 4 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (8.70%) IPv6
5 4 (8.70%) iSCSI
5 4 (8.70%) OSPF
5 4 (8.70%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (8.70%) TACACS
5 4 (8.70%) VLAN
5 4 (8.70%) VPN
5 4 (8.70%) WAN
6 3 (6.52%) Skype
7 2 (4.35%) NAS
7 2 (4.35%) PCoIP
8 1 (2.17%) LAN
8 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.52%) Billing
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.35%) French Language
5 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Consultant
3 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) VMware Architect
4 5 (10.87%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) VMware Specialist
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) ModSecurity
2 2 (4.35%) YAML
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (13.04%) PKI
4 5 (10.87%) Replication
5 4 (8.70%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
6 3 (6.52%) Private Cloud
7 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Clustering
8 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Windows
2 12 (26.09%) Linux
3 8 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (15.22%) Windows Server
5 5 (10.87%) Ubuntu
6 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.70%) Windows 10
6 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (6.52%) CentOS
7 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.17%) SUSE
8 1 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) Migration
2 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
3 5 (10.87%) Runbook
4 4 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (8.70%) High Availability
4 4 (8.70%) ITIL
4 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
5 3 (6.52%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (6.52%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (6.52%) Data Protection
5 3 (6.52%) Design Patterns
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (6.52%) Project Delivery
5 3 (6.52%) Security Hardening
5 3 (6.52%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (4.35%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) SQL
2 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.52%) Python
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) DV Cleared
3 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (19.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.70%) VCDX
6 3 (6.52%) VCAP
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.35%) CCNP
7 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.35%) MCSE
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (2.17%) CCDP
8 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.17%) Degree
8 1 (2.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (71.74%) vSphere
2 27 (58.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (58.70%) VMware NSX
3 22 (47.83%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
5 6 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (8.70%) Ceph
7 2 (4.35%) Firmware
7 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
7 2 (4.35%) NFS
8 1 (2.17%) KVM
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) vCenter Server
2 8 (17.39%) VxRail
3 7 (15.22%) PowerCLI
4 6 (13.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (10.87%) vRealize
6 4 (8.70%) Ansible
6 4 (8.70%) OPNET
7 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
8 2 (4.35%) Argo
8 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (4.35%) Terraform
9 1 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (2.17%) Istio
9 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (2.17%) Nessus
9 1 (2.17%) Puppet
9 1 (2.17%) SCCM
9 1 (2.17%) vMotion
9 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (91.30%) VMware
2 16 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.39%) Dell
4 6 (13.04%) NetApp
4 6 (13.04%) Red Hat
5 5 (10.87%) Cisco
5 5 (10.87%) Veeam
6 3 (6.52%) Infoblox
7 2 (4.35%) EMC
7 2 (4.35%) Splunk
8 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.17%) IBM
8 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.17%) Wind River
8 1 (2.17%) Zerto