VSAN Contracts

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VSAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VSAN over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 522 581
Rank change year-on-year +59 +59 +160
Contract jobs citing VSAN 56 78 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.50% 1.38% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 50 91
10th Percentile £495 £461 £410
25th Percentile £550 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% - +12.18%
75th Percentile £630 £649 £575
90th Percentile £661 £725 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +10.48% - +15.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £47.47
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year - +15.10% +12.54%
75th Percentile - - £62.53
90th Percentile - - £68.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year - +15.10% +12.54%

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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Hourly rate trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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 +45 48 £600 +14.29% 25
UK excluding London +27 35 £580 +10.48% 24
South East +38 20 £615 +23.00% 5
Work from Home +55 16 £624 +5.77% 7
London +33 12 £600 -4.00% 1
South West +30 7 £675 +28.57% 5
East of England - 5 £550 -
North of England +27 3 - - 10
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
North West +10 1 - - 5

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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) IaaS
2 10 (17.86%) Azure
3 9 (16.07%) PaaS
4 8 (14.29%) SaaS
5 6 (10.71%) GitHub
5 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (8.93%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.14%) AWS
8 1 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.79%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) Firewall
2 7 (12.50%) DNS
3 6 (10.71%) Network Security
4 5 (8.93%) BGP
4 5 (8.93%) OSPF
5 4 (7.14%) VPN
6 3 (5.36%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (5.36%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (5.36%) MPLS
6 3 (5.36%) NGFW
6 3 (5.36%) SAN
6 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
6 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (5.36%) VLAN
6 3 (5.36%) WAN
7 2 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (3.57%) IPv6
7 2 (3.57%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (3.57%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) GitLab
General
1 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Billing
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Architect
2 17 (30.36%) VMware Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Technical Architect
4 11 (19.64%) Senior
5 10 (17.86%) Senior Architect
5 10 (17.86%) Senior Technical Architect
6 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 3 (5.36%) VMware Architect
9 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) IT Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) Security Architect
10 2 (3.57%) Senior VMware Architect
10 2 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Flash
1 2 (3.57%) YAML
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (21.43%) PKI
3 5 (8.93%) Clustering
3 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.36%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (3.57%) Replication
7 1 (1.79%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.79%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.79%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.79%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Windows
2 12 (21.43%) Linux
3 9 (16.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.71%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) CI/CD
2 13 (23.21%) ITIL
3 12 (21.43%) DevSecOps
3 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (21.43%) TOGAF
4 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 10 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (17.86%) Microservices
5 10 (17.86%) Zachman Framework
6 9 (16.07%) High Availability
6 9 (16.07%) IT Strategy
6 9 (16.07%) Roadmaps
6 9 (16.07%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (14.29%) Use Case
7 8 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
8 7 (12.50%) Requirements Management
8 7 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.93%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) SQL
4 1 (1.79%) Bash
4 1 (1.79%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 19 (33.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (23.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (19.64%) MCSE
7 4 (7.14%) VCAP
8 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.57%) CCNA
9 2 (3.57%) CISSP
9 2 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (3.57%) RHCE
10 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.79%) CCNP
10 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) NCSC
1 11 (19.64%) NIST
2 10 (17.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) HIPAA
System Software
1 42 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (67.86%) VMware NSX
3 33 (58.93%) vSphere
4 15 (26.79%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (23.21%) Active Directory
6 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.57%) Ceph
8 1 (1.79%) NFS
8 1 (1.79%) SRDF
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (35.71%) vCenter Server
2 10 (17.86%) Ansible
3 8 (14.29%) PowerCLI
3 8 (14.29%) VxRail
4 7 (12.50%) Terraform
4 7 (12.50%) vRealize
5 5 (8.93%) WSUS
6 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
6 4 (7.14%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (5.36%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.57%) Argo
8 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.79%) Grafana
9 1 (1.79%) Istio
9 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.79%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (1.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 54 (96.43%) VMware
2 19 (33.93%) Cisco
3 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 12 (21.43%) Palo Alto
5 10 (17.86%) Dell
6 8 (14.29%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.93%) Symantec
8 4 (7.14%) HP
8 4 (7.14%) SolarWinds
9 3 (5.36%) EMC
9 3 (5.36%) Ericsson
9 3 (5.36%) Infoblox
9 3 (5.36%) Mavenir
9 3 (5.36%) Nokia
9 3 (5.36%) Veeam
10 2 (3.57%) Juniper
10 2 (3.57%) McAfee
10 2 (3.57%) NETGEAR
10 2 (3.57%) TP-LINK
11 1 (1.79%) Wind River