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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 473 535
Rank change year-on-year -48 +62 +120
Contract jobs citing VSAN 61 70 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.55% 1.58% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 45 52
10th Percentile £304 £400 £300
25th Percentile £356 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +3.37% -3.70%
75th Percentile £594 £565 £625
90th Percentile £658 £630 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £515
% change year-on-year +2.33% +4.37% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £77.13 - -
25th Percentile £80.31 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - £60.00
75th Percentile £95.31 - -
90th Percentile £97.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.16%

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 3,946 4,427 6,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 12.40% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,561 3,890
10th Percentile £206 £220 £211
25th Percentile £356 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 165 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.95 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.04 £22.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £33.39 £41.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -25.45% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.03 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.51% -14.98% +25.53%

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 8 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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 -53 50 £550 +2.33% 8
UK excluding London -38 45 £550 +2.33% 8
Work from Home -12 17 £550 -0.90% 3
Midlands - 17 £314 -
West Midlands - 15 £313 -
South East -25 13 £550 -1.79% 4
London -17 8 £625 +28.21% 4
North of England -39 7 £370 -32.73%
North West -11 5 £370 -
South West -21 3 £613 +13.95% 1
Scotland - 3 £388 - 1
Yorkshire -43 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
East of England -14 1 - -
Wales - 1 - - 2

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 (14.75%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) Azure
2 16 (26.23%) AWS
3 12 (19.67%) Datadog
4 6 (9.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (4.92%) GCP
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.28%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.64%) Route 53
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.39%) DNS
2 8 (13.11%) Firewall
3 5 (8.20%) DHCP
3 5 (8.20%) VLAN
3 5 (8.20%) WAN
4 4 (6.56%) PCoIP
4 4 (6.56%) VPN
5 3 (4.92%) iSCSI
5 3 (4.92%) Skype
5 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.28%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.28%) LAN
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
6 2 (3.28%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.28%) SSL
6 2 (3.28%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.64%) BGP
7 1 (1.64%) DMZ
7 1 (1.64%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) GitLab
1 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Finance
7 2 (3.28%) French Language
8 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) Architect
2 13 (21.31%) Analyst
3 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (11.48%) Consultant
4 7 (11.48%) VMware Architect
4 7 (11.48%) VMware Consultant
5 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Storage Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Senior
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) VMware Specialist
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.64%) Flash
2 1 (1.64%) LDAP
2 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Data Centre
1 14 (22.95%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (11.48%) PKI
3 6 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (9.84%) Replication
4 4 (6.56%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (6.56%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.64%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.64%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (1.64%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.64%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 26 (42.62%) Linux
2 13 (21.31%) Windows
3 8 (13.11%) Windows Server
3 8 (13.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (8.20%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (4.92%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.64%) CentOS
7 1 (1.64%) Solaris
7 1 (1.64%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.95%) Agile
2 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (16.39%) Migration
4 7 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (11.48%) Mentoring
5 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
6 5 (8.20%) CI/CD
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (8.20%) ITIL
6 5 (8.20%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (6.56%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (6.56%) Data Protection
7 4 (6.56%) Decision-Making
7 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (6.56%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (6.56%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (6.56%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (6.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.56%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.11%) SQL
3 5 (8.20%) Bash
4 4 (6.56%) Python
5 3 (4.92%) Go
6 2 (3.28%) VBA
7 1 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (14.75%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.84%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.20%) Degree
5 5 (8.20%) VCDX
6 4 (6.56%) CCNP
6 4 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (6.56%) VCAP
7 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.28%) MCSE
9 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.64%) CCDP
9 1 (1.64%) CCIE
9 1 (1.64%) CCSM
9 1 (1.64%) CISSP
9 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.64%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) NCSC
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) NIST
2 1 (1.64%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (78.69%) vSphere
2 45 (73.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (49.18%) VMware NSX
4 16 (26.23%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (13.11%) Active Directory
6 5 (8.20%) NFS
7 3 (4.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (4.92%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (3.28%) Docker
8 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.64%) Firmware
9 1 (1.64%) GPFS
9 1 (1.64%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 17 (27.87%) VxRail
2 16 (26.23%) vRealize
3 14 (22.95%) vCenter Server
4 9 (14.75%) Ansible
5 5 (8.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (8.20%) Terraform
6 3 (4.92%) OPNET
6 3 (4.92%) PowerCLI
7 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
7 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.64%) Argo
8 1 (1.64%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.64%) Grafana
8 1 (1.64%) Nessus
8 1 (1.64%) Podman
8 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.64%) SCCM
8 1 (1.64%) SCOM
8 1 (1.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (31.15%) Microsoft
3 18 (29.51%) Cisco
4 16 (26.23%) Dell
5 14 (22.95%) IBM
6 12 (19.67%) AppDynamics
6 12 (19.67%) Commvault
6 12 (19.67%) SolarWinds
7 10 (16.39%) HP
8 7 (11.48%) NetApp
9 6 (9.84%) Veeam
10 5 (8.20%) Red Hat
11 4 (6.56%) Palo Alto
11 4 (6.56%) Splunk
12 3 (4.92%) EMC
13 2 (3.28%) F5
13 2 (3.28%) Oracle
14 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
14 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
14 1 (1.64%) SevOne