VSAN Job Trends

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VSAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 656 579 776
Rank change year-on-year -77 +197 +160
Permanent jobs citing VSAN 22 81 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.18% 0.072%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.22% 1.36% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 14 66 47
10th Percentile £43,875 £46,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,781 £56,250 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +38.10% -
75th Percentile £88,438 £87,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £92,500 - £71,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £85,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -33.24% +61.90% -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,947 5,960 11,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 13.59% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,890 3,649 9,221
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £53,500 £48,392
Median % change year-on-year -21.50% +10.56% -7.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +16.28% -4.44%

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VSAN job vacancy trend in the UK

VSAN
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSAN

VSAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the UK over the 6 months to 11 March 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
England -90 21 £60,000 -17.24% 25
UK excluding London -77 10 £56,750 -33.24% 15
London +8 8 £90,000 +24.14% 10
South East -53 4 £56,750 -33.24% 8
South West - 4 £63,750 - 3
Work from Home +3 3 £67,500 +10.20% 11
Midlands -16 1 £52,500 - 2
North West -16 1 £47,500 -34.02% 2
North of England -42 1 £47,500 -17.02% 2
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 -

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 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 6 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (18.18%) Nutanix
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
5 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
6 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
6 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) DNS
2 10 (45.45%) DHCP
3 8 (36.36%) SAN
4 7 (31.82%) WAN
5 5 (22.73%) LAN
6 4 (18.18%) Firewall
6 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 4 (18.18%) VLAN
7 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
7 3 (13.64%) VPN
7 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (9.09%) NAS
8 2 (9.09%) NetScaler
9 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (4.55%) DKIM
9 1 (4.55%) DMARC
9 1 (4.55%) MPLS
9 1 (4.55%) PCoIP
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Law
3 3 (13.64%) Police
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) SEO Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Development Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) Clustering
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Windows
2 15 (68.18%) Windows Server
3 9 (40.91%) Linux
4 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (22.73%) CentOS
5 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (13.64%) CoreOS
7 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (36.36%) Storage Management
3 7 (31.82%) Information Security
3 7 (31.82%) ITIL
4 6 (27.27%) Converged Infrastructure
4 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 6 (27.27%) Zero Trust
5 5 (22.73%) Business Continuity
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
5 5 (22.73%) RBAC
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Security Hardening
6 4 (18.18%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (18.18%) Server Hardening
6 4 (18.18%) SIEM
6 4 (18.18%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) PowerShell
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) CCNP
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) CCSE
5 1 (4.55%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 2 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Active Directory
2 12 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (54.55%) vSphere
3 9 (40.91%) Hyper-V
4 5 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (18.18%) VMware NSX
6 3 (13.64%) Docker
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) VxRail
2 5 (22.73%) McAfee ePO
2 5 (22.73%) SCVMM
2 5 (22.73%) vCenter Server
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) FortiGate
3 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 2 (9.09%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 10 (45.45%) Cisco
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (40.91%) Dell
4 5 (22.73%) McAfee
4 5 (22.73%) Palo Alto
4 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
5 3 (13.64%) Broadcom
5 3 (13.64%) Citrix
5 3 (13.64%) Commvault
5 3 (13.64%) EMC
5 3 (13.64%) Veeam
6 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 2 (9.09%) NetApp
7 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.55%) Meraki
7 1 (4.55%) Proofpoint
7 1 (4.55%) Pure Storage
7 1 (4.55%) Zerto