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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 474 522
Rank change year-on-year -44 +48 +76
Contract jobs citing VSAN 100 54 78
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.21% 1.43% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 30 49
10th Percentile £304 £494 -
25th Percentile £438 £552 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £614 £636 £650
90th Percentile £648 £689 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £628 £525
% change year-on-year -14.42% +19.63% -
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 4,519 3,781 5,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 12.92% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 2,341 3,530
10th Percentile £225 £213 £205
25th Percentile £383 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £477
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.20% -8.27%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £468 £475
% change year-on-year +1.60% -1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 156 411
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.99 £13.85
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.46 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.25 £35.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% +71.05%
75th Percentile £70.29 £62.69 £61.75
90th Percentile £76.70 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +78.57% -36.36% +137.84%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -64 86 £536 -12.45% 21
UK excluding London -83 55 £538 -14.42% 13
Work from Home -16 32 £535 -14.27% 9
London -50 26 £513 -14.58% 7
Midlands - 20 £314 - 1
South East -55 18 £605 -3.67% 6
West Midlands - 18 £313 -
North of England -61 12 £538 - 5
North West - 10 £538 - 5
South West -34 2 £505 -25.19% 1
Yorkshire -54 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
Wales - 2 - -
East of England -39 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 9 (9.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.00%) AWS
1 27 (27.00%) Azure
2 12 (12.00%) Datadog
3 7 (7.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Stack
6 3 (3.00%) GCP
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) Firewall
1 8 (8.00%) SAN
2 7 (7.00%) VLAN
3 5 (5.00%) FCoE
3 5 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.00%) iSCSI
3 5 (5.00%) Network Security
4 4 (4.00%) VPN
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (3.00%) DNS
5 3 (3.00%) WAN
6 2 (2.00%) Calico
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.00%) DHCP
6 2 (2.00%) LAN
6 2 (2.00%) NAS
6 2 (2.00%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.00%) BIG-IP
7 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) GitLab
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
General
1 21 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Finance
3 7 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Banking
7 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Advertising
8 1 (1.00%) Legal
8 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 18 (18.00%) Analyst
3 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 16 (16.00%) Architect
5 15 (15.00%) Senior
6 14 (14.00%) Consultant
7 10 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
8 9 (9.00%) Storage Analyst
9 8 (8.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Migration Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) SAN Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Technical Architect
12 5 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) VMware Architect
13 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
14 3 (3.00%) Senior Architect
14 3 (3.00%) Senior Technical Architect
14 3 (3.00%) Server Engineer
15 2 (2.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) Flash
2 2 (2.00%) LDAP
3 1 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (18.00%) Replication
3 11 (11.00%) Data Centre
4 10 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.00%) Clustering
5 6 (6.00%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (6.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (6.00%) PKI
6 4 (4.00%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.00%) HP Storage
9 1 (1.00%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 41 (41.00%) Linux
2 21 (21.00%) Windows
3 10 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (9.00%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.00%) VMS
6 5 (5.00%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.00%) SUSE
7 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (2.00%) Unix
9 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.00%) Migration
2 19 (19.00%) Agile
3 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (12.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 11 (11.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 10 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
7 9 (9.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (9.00%) High Availability
7 9 (9.00%) Storage Management
7 9 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (8.00%) ITIL
8 8 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 8 (8.00%) Mentoring
9 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (6.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.00%) Python
3 4 (4.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.00%) SQL
5 2 (2.00%) C
6 1 (1.00%) Perl
6 1 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.00%) DV Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 14 (14.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (12.00%) VCAP
6 8 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (7.00%) CCNP
8 6 (6.00%) Degree
9 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (4.00%) HP ASE
10 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.00%) CCSM
10 3 (3.00%) VCDX
11 2 (2.00%) CCSE
12 1 (1.00%) CCIE
12 1 (1.00%) CCNA
12 1 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.00%) NCSC
2 5 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.00%) SLA
4 1 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (1.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 70 (70.00%) vSphere
2 67 (67.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (56.00%) VMware NSX
4 33 (33.00%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (7.00%) NFS
6 7 (7.00%) SRDF
7 5 (5.00%) GPFS
7 5 (5.00%) Hyper-V
8 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
9 3 (3.00%) Firmware
10 2 (2.00%) Docker
10 2 (2.00%) vCloud
10 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (25.00%) VxRail
2 24 (24.00%) vCenter Server
3 22 (22.00%) vRealize
4 12 (12.00%) Ansible
5 9 (9.00%) PowerCLI
6 6 (6.00%) EMC TimeFinder
7 5 (5.00%) Terraform
7 5 (5.00%) WSUS
8 4 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
9 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (2.00%) Check_MK
10 2 (2.00%) Istio
10 2 (2.00%) Nessus
10 2 (2.00%) vMotion
11 1 (1.00%) Argo
11 1 (1.00%) Podman
11 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.00%) SCCM
11 1 (1.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 94 (94.00%) VMware
2 40 (40.00%) Cisco
3 29 (29.00%) Dell
4 18 (18.00%) IBM
5 12 (12.00%) AppDynamics
5 12 (12.00%) Commvault
5 12 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 11 (11.00%) HP
6 11 (11.00%) Palo Alto
7 10 (10.00%) Red Hat
8 8 (8.00%) Broadcom
8 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
9 7 (7.00%) Pure Storage
10 6 (6.00%) Brocade
10 6 (6.00%) Oracle
11 5 (5.00%) EMC
11 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
12 4 (4.00%) Fortinet
12 4 (4.00%) NVIDIA
13 3 (3.00%) Veeam