VSAN Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 338 419
Rank change year-on-year +48 +81 +161
Contract jobs citing VSAN 11 9 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.060% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.00% 0.58% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 24
10th Percentile £538 £388 £413
25th Percentile £550 £499 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £608 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +22.73% -1.00%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £541
90th Percentile £674 £646 £588
UK median daily rate £578 £525 £519
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.20% +6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £69.40
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year - +15.10% +12.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,095 1,562 2,874
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.05% 10.38% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 1,018 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £700 £701 £725
UK median daily rate £489 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.26% -4.44% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 76 94
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £23.10
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.20 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.95% -59.79% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £73.19
90th Percentile £71.50 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -27.50% +116.22% -34.51%

VSAN
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VSAN trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VSAN
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VSAN.

VSAN daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VSAN over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

VSAN daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VSAN
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VSAN.

VSAN hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VSAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Cohesity
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) BGP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) NGFW
2 1 (9.09%) OSPF
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Skype
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
3 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Architect
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Blackberry
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) RSA SecurID
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) TOGAF
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) C
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (18.18%) MCSE
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) CCNP
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (9.09%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (18.18%) NCSC
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (63.64%) VMware NSX
2 6 (54.55%) vSphere
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) PowerCLI
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
1 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) SCOM
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) vRealize
2 1 (9.09%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
2 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat