Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring VSAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VSAN over the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 739 904
Rank change year-on-year +74 +165 +104
Permanent jobs citing VSAN 92 32 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.050% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% 0.36% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 63 21 78
10th Percentile £51,500 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - £73,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% - -4.55%

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 10,437 8,830 14,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.09% 13.93% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,741 6,879 9,197
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +4.90%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,070 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

VSAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VSAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Salary trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 20 January 2025.

Salary histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 12 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 20 January 2025. 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 +54 89 £62,500 +19.05% 7
UK excluding London +37 74 £62,500 +19.05% 4
South East +33 51 £62,500 -13.79% 2
Work from Home +76 41 £60,000 +14.29% 3
London +21 16 £75,000 +50.00% 3
North of England -9 9 £42,500 -43.33% 1
North West -24 7 £42,500 -43.33% 1
East of England - 7 £55,000 -
Midlands -21 4 - - 1
West Midlands -22 4 - - 1
Wales - 3 - -
Yorkshire +27 2 £41,500 -44.67%

VSAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (11.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.61%) IIS
3 5 (5.43%) Confluence
4 1 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.09%) Azure
2 19 (20.65%) IaaS
3 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (4.35%) AWS
5 4 (4.35%) SaaS
6 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
6 3 (3.26%) GCP
6 3 (3.26%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.09%) PaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (30.43%) DNS
2 19 (20.65%) DHCP
3 18 (19.57%) WAN
4 17 (18.48%) Firewall
5 15 (16.30%) LAN
6 14 (15.22%) Network Security
7 10 (10.87%) H.323
8 9 (9.78%) SAN
9 5 (5.43%) WebEx
10 4 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (4.35%) NAS
11 3 (3.26%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (3.26%) SD-WAN
11 3 (3.26%) SNMP
12 1 (1.09%) VLAN
12 1 (1.09%) VoIP
12 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
1 5 (5.43%) JIRA
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.91%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (10.87%) Finance
4 4 (4.35%) Banking
4 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.35%) Retail
5 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (33.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (29.35%) Security Engineer
3 26 (28.26%) Network Engineer
3 26 (28.26%) Network Security Engineer
4 15 (16.30%) VMware Specialist
5 14 (15.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 13 (14.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (13.04%) Administrator
8 10 (10.87%) Cisco Engineer
9 9 (9.78%) Lead
10 8 (8.70%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (6.52%) Senior
12 5 (5.43%) Lead Cisco Engineer
12 5 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (4.35%) Cisco Voice Engineer
13 4 (4.35%) Telephony Engineer
13 4 (4.35%) Voice Engineer
14 3 (3.26%) Analyst
14 3 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) XMPP
2 3 (3.26%) Middleware
2 3 (3.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (39.13%) Data Centre
2 26 (28.26%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (10.87%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.35%) Clustering
6 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.26%) Replication
7 2 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (60.87%) Windows
2 47 (51.09%) Linux
3 17 (18.48%) Windows Server
4 12 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (10.87%) Windows 10
6 5 (5.43%) CentOS
6 5 (5.43%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.09%) Android
8 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.39%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (41.30%) ITIL
3 31 (33.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (29.35%) Information Security
6 25 (27.17%) Change Management
7 10 (10.87%) Business Continuity
7 10 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (9.78%) Service Delivery
9 8 (8.70%) Business Strategy
9 8 (8.70%) Customer Service
9 8 (8.70%) Incident Management
10 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Maintenance
10 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (7.61%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 7 (7.61%) Storage Management
11 6 (6.52%) Application Packaging
11 6 (6.52%) High Availability
11 6 (6.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.57%) PowerShell
2 20 (21.74%) Python
3 16 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (16.30%) DV Cleared
4 13 (14.13%) SC Cleared
5 11 (11.96%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (10.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (8.70%) CCNP
8 7 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (7.61%) Degree
9 5 (5.43%) CCIE
10 4 (4.35%) CCNA
10 4 (4.35%) CCSE
10 4 (4.35%) CCSM
10 4 (4.35%) CISSP
11 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.17%) MCP
12 2 (2.17%) MCSA
13 1 (1.09%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) PMO
2 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.09%) NCSC
2 1 (1.09%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (91.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (44.57%) VMware ESXi
3 38 (41.30%) VMware NSX
4 31 (33.70%) vSphere
5 22 (23.91%) Active Directory
6 6 (6.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (5.43%) Docker
8 3 (3.26%) DFS Replication
9 2 (2.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (2.17%) Firmware
10 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (22.83%) vCenter Server
2 11 (11.96%) Microsoft Clustering
3 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
4 9 (9.78%) Terraform
5 8 (8.70%) SCCM
6 7 (7.61%) VxRail
7 5 (5.43%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (5.43%) Packer
8 4 (4.35%) SCOM
9 3 (3.26%) FortiGate
9 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (3.26%) Progress Chef
9 3 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.17%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (2.17%) vRealize
10 2 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 92 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 28 (30.43%) Palo Alto
3 27 (29.35%) CheckPoint
4 23 (25.00%) HP
5 19 (20.65%) Dell
6 15 (16.30%) Cisco
7 12 (13.04%) ServiceNow
7 12 (13.04%) Veeam
8 7 (7.61%) Dell Compellent
8 7 (7.61%) EMC
8 7 (7.61%) ExaGrid
8 7 (7.61%) Okta
8 7 (7.61%) Proofpoint
8 7 (7.61%) Red Hat
9 6 (6.52%) SolarWinds
10 4 (4.35%) Fortinet
11 3 (3.26%) Aderant
11 3 (3.26%) Google
11 3 (3.26%) Oracle