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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 837 919
Rank change year-on-year +172 +82 +233
Permanent jobs citing VSAN 44 75 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.073% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.44% 0.55% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42 56 38
10th Percentile £56,250 £32,500 £43,875
25th Percentile £70,097 £42,733 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% - -8.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £56,250 £58,750
90th Percentile - £57,500 £73,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +61.90% - +9.95%

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 9,970 13,562 15,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.99% 13.13% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,374 9,412 7,743
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,781 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

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 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 8 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 30 May 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 +127 44 £85,000 +61.90% 93
UK excluding London +167 41 £85,000 +61.90% 91
South East +118 33 £85,000 +54.55% 26
North of England +54 8 £71,991 +37.13% 16
North West +9 6 £71,991 +37.13% 7
Work from Home +95 5 £71,991 +37.13% 10
London +111 2 £72,500 +30.63% 12
Yorkshire - 2 - - 7

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 2 (4.55%) IIS
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) IaaS
2 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 7 (15.91%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.09%) DNS
1 15 (34.09%) SAN
2 12 (27.27%) DHCP
3 11 (25.00%) NAS
4 2 (4.55%) PuTTY
4 2 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.27%) LAN
5 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.27%) VPN
5 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.27%) MSI
General
1 8 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (68.18%) VMware Specialist
2 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Support Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Support Specialist
3 6 (13.64%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 6 (13.64%) VMware Support Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Senior
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Clustering
1 6 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) LPAR
2 2 (4.55%) Replication
3 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Windows
2 7 (15.91%) Linux
2 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) CentOS
3 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (18.18%) Security Hardening
2 7 (15.91%) Agile
2 7 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (15.91%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (13.64%) Configuration Management
3 6 (13.64%) High Availability
3 6 (13.64%) Incident Management
3 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
3 6 (13.64%) Task Automation
3 6 (13.64%) Virtual Environments
3 6 (13.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 5 (11.36%) Architectural Design
4 5 (11.36%) Defect Management
4 5 (11.36%) Fintech
4 5 (11.36%) Service Design
5 3 (6.82%) Migration
6 2 (4.55%) Business Continuity
6 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (77.27%) PowerShell
2 24 (54.55%) Python
3 7 (15.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (70.45%) DV Cleared
3 12 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.55%) Degree
7 1 (2.27%) MCSA
7 1 (2.27%) MCSE
System Software
1 36 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (77.27%) vSphere
3 32 (72.73%) VMware NSX
4 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
5 6 (13.64%) Docker
5 6 (13.64%) Hyper-V
5 6 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (4.55%) PowerHA
7 1 (2.27%) KVM
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) PowerCLI
1 7 (15.91%) vRealize
2 6 (13.64%) Ansible
2 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Puppet
2 6 (13.64%) vCenter Server
2 6 (13.64%) vMotion
3 5 (11.36%) Progress Chef
3 5 (11.36%) Terraform
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) VxRail
5 1 (2.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 42 (95.45%) VMware
2 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (18.18%) Veeam
4 6 (13.64%) Citrix
4 6 (13.64%) HP
5 5 (11.36%) Google
5 5 (11.36%) Oracle
6 4 (9.09%) Dell
7 3 (6.82%) Cisco
8 2 (4.55%) Dell Compellent
8 2 (4.55%) ExaGrid
8 2 (4.55%) IBM
8 2 (4.55%) Okta
8 2 (4.55%) Proofpoint
9 1 (2.27%) Broadcom
9 1 (2.27%) Juniper