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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 477 514
Rank change year-on-year -77 +37 +70
Contract jobs citing VSAN 91 48 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.91% 1.30% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 28 43
10th Percentile £343 £492 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £610 £600 £581
90th Percentile £646 £661 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +2.73% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.50 - -
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
75th Percentile £79.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 4,775 3,691 5,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 12.48% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 2,271 3,207
10th Percentile £263 £220 £209
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -2.02% -3.41%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £470 £485
% change year-on-year +2.13% -3.09% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 169 421
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.86
Median hourly rate £27.69 £41.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.28% +3.75% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.20 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.25 £31.79 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.84% -33.07% +150.00%

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 14 June 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
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 14 June 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 -68 82 £544 -5.43% 9
UK excluding London -88 49 £565 +2.73% 7
Work from Home -15 38 £550 - 4
South East -48 27 £605 +5.22% 5
London -69 26 £513 -14.58% 1
North of England -55 11 £519 -
North West -32 9 £427 -
Midlands - 6 £294 -
West Midlands - 5 £294 -
South West -29 2 £505 -25.19% 1
East of England -31 2 £350 -36.36% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £519 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £375 -

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 (4.40%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.98%) AWS
2 19 (20.88%) Azure
3 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
4 5 (5.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (4.40%) Azure Stack
5 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.20%) Datadog
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.10%) GCP
8 1 (1.10%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) SAN
2 6 (6.59%) VLAN
3 5 (5.49%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (5.49%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (5.49%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (5.49%) FCoE
3 5 (5.49%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.49%) iSCSI
4 4 (4.40%) Firewall
4 4 (4.40%) NAS
5 3 (3.30%) Network Security
5 3 (3.30%) VPN
6 2 (2.20%) DHCP
6 2 (2.20%) DNS
6 2 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.10%) BGP
7 1 (1.10%) Calico
7 1 (1.10%) DMZ
7 1 (1.10%) H.323
7 1 (1.10%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) GitLab
1 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 19 (20.88%) Finance
2 12 (13.19%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
5 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) VMware Engineer
2 22 (24.18%) Senior
3 14 (15.38%) Architect
3 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (15.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Consultant
5 8 (8.79%) Analyst
5 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (7.69%) Storage Analyst
7 6 (6.59%) Network Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.59%) VMware Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) NOC Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) Flash
2 2 (2.20%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Replication
2 13 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 10 (10.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (10.99%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (8.79%) EMC VMAX
4 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (6.59%) Clustering
5 6 (6.59%) Public Cloud
6 5 (5.49%) PKI
6 5 (5.49%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.20%) EMC VNX
8 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.10%) HP Storage
9 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.10%) Social Media
9 1 (1.10%) Symmetrix
9 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.07%) Linux
2 20 (21.98%) Windows
3 8 (8.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.59%) VMS
5 5 (5.49%) Ubuntu
5 5 (5.49%) Unix
6 4 (4.40%) SUSE
7 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.20%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.67%) Migration
2 15 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (13.19%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (12.09%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (12.09%) Storage Management
5 10 (10.99%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.99%) High Availability
6 9 (9.89%) ITIL
6 9 (9.89%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 8 (8.79%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (8.79%) Change Management
7 8 (8.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (8.79%) Load Balancing
7 8 (8.79%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (8.79%) Virtual Environments
8 7 (7.69%) Agile
8 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (7.69%) Ticket Management
8 7 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.19%) PowerShell
1 12 (13.19%) Python
2 4 (4.40%) Bash
3 2 (2.20%) C
4 1 (1.10%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (39.56%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 18 (19.78%) DV Cleared
5 14 (15.38%) VCAP
6 11 (12.09%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (9.89%) CCNP
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
8 5 (5.49%) CCSE
8 5 (5.49%) CCSM
9 4 (4.40%) HP ASE
10 3 (3.30%) Degree
11 2 (2.20%) NCDA
11 2 (2.20%) NCIE
12 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.10%) CCNA
12 1 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) NCSC
1 6 (6.59%) NIST
2 5 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.49%) SLA
3 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 66 (72.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 57 (62.64%) vSphere
3 56 (61.54%) VMware NSX
4 46 (50.55%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (16.48%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (9.89%) Hyper-V
6 9 (9.89%) NFS
7 8 (8.79%) SRDF
8 7 (7.69%) GPFS
9 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
9 3 (3.30%) Firmware
10 2 (2.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.20%) vCloud
11 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (35.16%) vCenter Server
2 16 (17.58%) VxRail
3 14 (15.38%) vRealize
4 12 (13.19%) Ansible
5 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
5 10 (10.99%) PowerCLI
6 6 (6.59%) EMC TimeFinder
6 6 (6.59%) Terraform
7 4 (4.40%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (3.30%) Grafana
8 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.30%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.30%) WSUS
9 2 (2.20%) Argo
9 2 (2.20%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (2.20%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.20%) SnapMirror
9 2 (2.20%) SnapVault
9 2 (2.20%) vMotion
Vendors
1 85 (93.41%) VMware
2 29 (31.87%) Cisco
3 17 (18.68%) Dell
4 12 (13.19%) Broadcom
5 10 (10.99%) Palo Alto
6 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
6 9 (9.89%) Pure Storage
7 8 (8.79%) Brocade
8 7 (7.69%) IBM
8 7 (7.69%) Oracle
8 7 (7.69%) ServiceNow
9 6 (6.59%) EMC
9 6 (6.59%) Red Hat
10 5 (5.49%) CheckPoint
10 5 (5.49%) Fortinet
10 5 (5.49%) NVIDIA
11 4 (4.40%) Veeam
12 2 (2.20%) NetApp
12 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.20%) Zerto