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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 507 488
Rank change year-on-year -69 -19 +83
Contract jobs citing VSAN 90 45 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 1.19% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 29 47
10th Percentile £359 £448 £374
25th Percentile £515 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.32% +12.53%
75th Percentile £704 £613 £556
90th Percentile £800 £664 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +10.91% +4.76% +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £75.00 - -
25th Percentile £83.77 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £99.29 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £98.82 - -

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 5,027 3,786 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.24% 11.47% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 2,385 2,613
10th Percentile £231 £219 £225
25th Percentile £389 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £485
% change year-on-year +4.86% -6.60% +6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 204 202
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £21.15 £23.90
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.72 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% -16.56% -11.49%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.15 £74.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -37.54% -25.89% -0.26%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -81 83 £610 +10.91% 34
UK excluding London -62 71 £610 +10.91% 22
Work from Home -46 33 £600 +4.35% 14
South West -15 26 £700 +14.29% 9
South East -54 22 £610 +10.91% 5
London -85 10 £600 +4.35% 10
Midlands -35 9 £395 +8.09%
West Midlands -41 8 £263 -27.99%
North of England -67 6 £400 - 7
East of England - 6 £433 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £519 -
Scotland -15 2 £375 -3.23%
North West -45 2 £316 - 6
East Midlands -10 1 £526 -

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 (4.44%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.11%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (33.33%) AWS
2 22 (24.44%) Azure
3 4 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (3.33%) GCP
4 3 (3.33%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.22%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.22%) Datadog
5 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.22%) GitHub
5 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.22%) OCI
5 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (24.44%) DNS
1 22 (24.44%) Firewall
2 18 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 16 (17.78%) DHCP
4 5 (5.56%) BGP
5 4 (4.44%) VLAN
5 4 (4.44%) VPN
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.33%) OSPF
6 3 (3.33%) SAN
6 3 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.22%) LAN
7 2 (2.22%) NAS
7 2 (2.22%) Network Security
7 2 (2.22%) WAN
8 1 (1.11%) H.323
8 1 (1.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.11%) GitLab
2 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 12 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 9 (10.00%) Finance
3 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.44%) Retail
4 4 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Marketing
7 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Senior
2 23 (25.56%) VMware Engineer
3 19 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (15.56%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 12 (13.33%) Architect
7 9 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 8 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Network Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Consultant
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) VMware Consultant
11 5 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Analyst
12 4 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 4 (4.44%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (37.78%) Terraform
2 4 (4.44%) Flash
3 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.11%) REST
3 1 (1.11%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.22%) Data Centre
2 15 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (15.56%) PKI
3 14 (15.56%) Public Cloud
4 7 (7.78%) Replication
5 6 (6.67%) Private Cloud
6 4 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.22%) Clustering
8 2 (2.22%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (2.22%) EMC VNX
8 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.11%) Social Media
9 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (31.11%) Linux
2 27 (30.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.44%) Unix
5 3 (3.33%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
3 25 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
4 23 (25.56%) Network Virtualisation
5 22 (24.44%) Migration
6 21 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (21.11%) SIEM
8 18 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 18 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 16 (17.78%) Agile
10 15 (16.67%) DevSecOps
11 14 (15.56%) Converged Infrastructure
11 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (15.56%) Systems Engineering
12 13 (14.44%) Customer Requirements
13 12 (13.33%) Load Balancing
13 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (12.22%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (12.22%) DevOps
15 10 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 19 (21.11%) Python
3 17 (18.89%) Bash
4 2 (2.22%) Bicep
5 1 (1.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 36 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 31 (34.44%) VCAP
4 28 (31.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CCNP
7 3 (3.33%) CCSE
7 3 (3.33%) CCSM
8 2 (2.22%) Degree
8 2 (2.22%) NCDA
8 2 (2.22%) NCIE
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.11%) CCA
9 1 (1.11%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) NIST
1 3 (3.33%) SLA
2 2 (2.22%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 76 (84.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 74 (82.22%) VMware NSX
3 59 (65.56%) vSphere
4 45 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (18.89%) Active Directory
6 16 (17.78%) Hyper-V
7 12 (13.33%) Docker
8 6 (6.67%) NFS
8 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (4.44%) GPFS
10 2 (2.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.22%) SRDF
11 1 (1.11%) DFS Replication
11 1 (1.11%) Firmware
11 1 (1.11%) KVM
11 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (46.67%) vCenter Server
2 31 (34.44%) Kubernetes
3 30 (33.33%) Ansible
4 26 (28.89%) VxRail
5 11 (12.22%) vRealize
6 10 (11.11%) PowerCLI
7 3 (3.33%) Grafana
7 3 (3.33%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.33%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.22%) Argo
8 2 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (2.22%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.22%) SnapMirror
8 2 (2.22%) SnapVault
8 2 (2.22%) vMotion
9 1 (1.11%) Avamar
9 1 (1.11%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.11%) OPNET
Vendors
1 90 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (14.44%) Cisco
3 9 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.89%) Broadcom
5 7 (7.78%) Oracle
6 5 (5.56%) IBM
6 5 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 5 (5.56%) SaltStack
7 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
8 3 (3.33%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.33%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.33%) EMC
8 3 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.33%) NetApp
8 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.33%) Thales
8 3 (3.33%) Veeam
9 2 (2.22%) 3PAR
9 2 (2.22%) SolarWinds