VSAN Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VSAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 496 552
Rank change year-on-year -2 +56 +126
Permanent jobs citing VSAN 11 70 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.19% 0.061%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.15% 1.42% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 8 45 14
10th Percentile £50,500 £41,250 £36,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,875 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £60,125 £87,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £63,463 - £73,750
UK median annual salary £56,750 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.20% +19.05% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,571 4,931 5,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.85% 13.73% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 2,461 4,336
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,694 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -4.76%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VSAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VSAN job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VSAN
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VSAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VSAN

VSAN
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VSAN in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VSAN in the UK excluding London

VSAN
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South West - 5 £60,000 - 1
East of England +21 3 £52,500 -4.55% 1
South East -10 3 £56,750 -9.20% 6
VSAN
UK

VSAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (27.27%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
4 3 (27.27%) Cohesity
5 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DHCP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) LAN
2 3 (27.27%) Skype
2 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) NetScaler
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) Firewall
4 1 (9.09%) PCoIP
4 1 (9.09%) VLAN
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Blackberry
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
1 3 (27.27%) RSA SecurID
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
1 10 (90.91%) Windows Server
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 7 (63.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (36.36%) CentOS
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (9.09%) CoreOS
5 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) RBAC
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Time Management
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Converged Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) IT Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
4 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) vSphere
3 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
3 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
5 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) McAfee ePO
1 4 (36.36%) SCVMM
1 4 (36.36%) vCenter Server
2 3 (27.27%) SCOM
2 3 (27.27%) WSUS
3 2 (18.18%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (18.18%) VxRail
4 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Red Hat
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) McAfee
4 3 (27.27%) HP
5 2 (18.18%) Citrix
5 2 (18.18%) Dell
5 2 (18.18%) NetApp
5 2 (18.18%) Veeam
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco
6 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto