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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 471 508
Rank change year-on-year -73 +37 +60
Contract jobs citing VSAN 95 49 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.03% 1.34% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 29 40
10th Percentile £322 £493 £416
25th Percentile £456 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £646
90th Percentile £654 £661 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £75.45 - -
25th Percentile £76.13 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.31 - -
90th Percentile £95.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 4,675 3,649 5,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.62% 12.66% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 2,259 3,221
10th Percentile £263 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -0.51% -5.41%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £464 £475
% change year-on-year +2.43% -2.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 155 412
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.22 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.78 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £28.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +39.36% -38.97% +154.89%

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 24 May 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 24 May 2026.

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 24 May 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 -79 83 £544 -5.84% 12
UK excluding London -74 49 £550 -4.35% 6
Work from Home -18 35 £550 -2.22% 7
London -47 28 £525 -12.50% 6
South East -49 22 £610 +6.09% 5
Midlands - 11 £315 -
North of England -68 10 £519 -
North West -32 9 £427 -
West Midlands - 9 £305 -
South West -35 2 £505 -25.19% 1
Wales - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £550 -
East of England -38 1 £350 -36.36%
Scotland - 1 £375 -
Yorkshire - 1 £519 -

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 5 (5.26%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.16%) Confluence
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.05%) CMS
4 1 (1.05%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.11%) AWS
2 19 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (6.32%) OpenShift
4 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (4.21%) Azure Stack
5 4 (4.21%) Datadog
6 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.05%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.05%) GitHub
6 1 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.05%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) SAN
2 7 (7.37%) VLAN
3 6 (6.32%) Firewall
4 5 (5.26%) FCoE
4 5 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (5.26%) iSCSI
5 4 (4.21%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (4.21%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (4.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (4.21%) Network Security
5 4 (4.21%) VPN
5 4 (4.21%) WAN
6 3 (3.16%) LAN
6 3 (3.16%) NAS
7 2 (2.11%) Calico
7 2 (2.11%) DHCP
7 2 (2.11%) DNS
7 2 (2.11%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.11%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.05%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) GitLab
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (21.05%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.21%) Retail
6 3 (3.16%) Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Advertising
8 1 (1.05%) Legal
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) VMware Engineer
2 20 (21.05%) Senior
3 15 (15.79%) Architect
4 13 (13.68%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 12 (12.63%) Analyst
5 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (10.53%) Consultant
8 9 (9.47%) Storage Analyst
9 6 (6.32%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Technical Architect
9 6 (6.32%) VMware Consultant
10 5 (5.26%) Network Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) VMware Architect
11 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Migration Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) NOC Engineer
11 4 (4.21%) Server Engineer
12 3 (3.16%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) Flash
2 2 (2.11%) LDAP
3 1 (1.05%) REST
3 1 (1.05%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.21%) Replication
2 14 (14.74%) Data Centre
2 14 (14.74%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (9.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (7.37%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (7.37%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (6.32%) Clustering
6 5 (5.26%) PKI
6 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.11%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 1 (1.05%) EMC VNX
9 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.05%) Symmetrix
9 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 36 (37.89%) Linux
2 21 (22.11%) Windows
3 9 (9.47%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.32%) VMS
6 5 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.26%) Unix
7 4 (4.21%) SUSE
7 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.05%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.42%) Migration
2 12 (12.63%) Agile
2 12 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (12.63%) Storage Management
3 11 (11.58%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (10.53%) ITIL
5 9 (9.47%) CI/CD
5 9 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (9.47%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (9.47%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 8 (8.42%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (8.42%) High Availability
6 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (8.42%) Ticket Management
6 8 (8.42%) Virtual Environments
7 7 (7.37%) Change Management
7 7 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (7.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.58%) Python
3 4 (4.21%) Bash
4 3 (3.16%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) C
Qualifications
1 35 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 20 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 17 (17.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (13.68%) VCAP
6 10 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (8.42%) CCNP
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.21%) CCSE
8 4 (4.21%) CCSM
8 4 (4.21%) Degree
8 4 (4.21%) HP ASE
9 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.11%) VCDX
11 1 (1.05%) CCNA
11 1 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.05%) NCDA
11 1 (1.05%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (6.32%) NCSC
2 6 (6.32%) NIST
3 4 (4.21%) SLA
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) NIST 800
System Software
1 66 (69.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (66.32%) vSphere
3 55 (57.89%) VMware NSX
4 43 (45.26%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (9.47%) NFS
7 8 (8.42%) GPFS
7 8 (8.42%) Hyper-V
7 8 (8.42%) SRDF
8 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
9 3 (3.16%) Firmware
10 2 (2.11%) vCloud
11 1 (1.05%) Docker
11 1 (1.05%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 27 (28.42%) vCenter Server
2 19 (20.00%) VxRail
3 17 (17.89%) vRealize
4 10 (10.53%) Ansible
5 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
5 9 (9.47%) PowerCLI
6 6 (6.32%) EMC TimeFinder
7 5 (5.26%) WSUS
8 4 (4.21%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (4.21%) Terraform
9 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (2.11%) Check_MK
10 2 (2.11%) Grafana
10 2 (2.11%) Istio
10 2 (2.11%) Nessus
10 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.11%) vMotion
11 1 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (1.05%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 89 (93.68%) VMware
2 34 (35.79%) Cisco
3 21 (22.11%) Dell
4 11 (11.58%) IBM
4 11 (11.58%) Palo Alto
5 10 (10.53%) Broadcom
5 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 8 (8.42%) Oracle
6 8 (8.42%) Pure Storage
6 8 (8.42%) Red Hat
6 8 (8.42%) ServiceNow
7 7 (7.37%) Brocade
8 6 (6.32%) EMC
8 6 (6.32%) Fortinet
9 5 (5.26%) NVIDIA
10 4 (4.21%) CheckPoint
10 4 (4.21%) HP
10 4 (4.21%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.16%) Splunk
11 3 (3.16%) Veeam