VSAN Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VSAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 248 274
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 +131
Permanent jobs citing VSAN 3 47 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.029% 0.52% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 3.35% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2 30 5
10th Percentile - - £39,550
25th Percentile £53,375 £56,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -13.79% +31.82%
75th Percentile £60,125 £87,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - - £74,500
England median annual salary £56,750 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.20% +19.05% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

VSAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,505 1,401 1,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.55% 15.35% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 670 725 999
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £59,500 £63,750 £61,263
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VSAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VSAN job vacancy trend in the South East

VSAN
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VSAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VSAN

VSAN
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kent - 2 £56,750 -
Hampshire +22 1 - -
VSAN
England

VSAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) NetScaler
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) PCoIP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Converged Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) IT Governance
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (66.67%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (66.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Veeam