VSAN Contracts

Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VSAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VSAN over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 561 736
Rank change year-on-year +48 +175 -113
Contract jobs citing VSAN 62 121 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.14% 1.70% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 87 64
10th Percentile £416 £412 £413
25th Percentile £463 £455 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £548
90th Percentile £679 £638 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £455
% change year-on-year -4.76% +15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - £52.13 £42.18
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - +42.49% -
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - £68.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.13 £46.32
% change year-on-year - +12.54% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

VSAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Daily rate trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VSAN over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VSAN.

Hourly rate trend for VSAN in the UK

VSAN
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSAN within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +51 55 £513 +5.13% 27
UK excluding London +18 52 £500 -4.76% 24
South West +7 22 £525 -4.55% 4
South East +11 21 £475 +4.40% 10
London +78 9 £638 +28.79% 4
Work from Home +78 7 £475 -4.52% 7
Scotland +38 6 £646 +12.35%
North of England +19 3 £325 -34.18% 1
North West +19 3 £325 -25.71% 1

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 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) IBM Domino
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.61%) nginx
4 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.06%) Nutanix
2 2 (3.23%) Azure
2 2 (3.23%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.61%) AWS
3 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.61%) GitHub
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (8.06%) DNS
2 3 (4.84%) SNA
3 2 (3.23%) DHCP
3 2 (3.23%) Firewall
3 2 (3.23%) SAN
3 2 (3.23%) Skype
4 1 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.61%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
General
1 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) VMware Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) VMware Expert
5 6 (9.68%) Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Architect
6 5 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) VMware Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Lead
8 2 (3.23%) Migration Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) Flash
2 3 (4.84%) YAML
3 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (41.94%) Data Centre
2 18 (29.03%) PKI
3 6 (9.68%) Clustering
3 6 (9.68%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 2 (3.23%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (37.10%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Windows
3 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (25.81%) Agile
3 15 (24.19%) Converged Infrastructure
4 13 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
7 9 (14.52%) Time Management
8 8 (12.90%) Migration
9 7 (11.29%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (11.29%) Computer Science
9 7 (11.29%) DevOps
9 7 (11.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (11.29%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (9.68%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (9.68%) Data Migration
10 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
10 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (9.68%) Kanban
10 6 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.13%) Python
2 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (62.90%) Security Cleared
2 27 (43.55%) DV Cleared
3 20 (32.26%) SC Cleared
4 14 (22.58%) Degree
5 10 (16.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (14.52%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (8.06%) CCNA
7 5 (8.06%) Master's Degree
8 4 (6.45%) CCNP
8 4 (6.45%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) VCAP
9 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 51 (82.26%) VMware NSX
2 39 (62.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (59.68%) vSphere
4 31 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (14.52%) vCloud
6 8 (12.90%) Hyper-V
7 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
8 4 (6.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 37 (59.68%) vCenter Server
2 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.90%) vRealize
3 8 (12.90%) VxRail
4 5 (8.06%) WSUS
5 4 (6.45%) Ansible
5 4 (6.45%) Terraform
6 3 (4.84%) vMotion
7 2 (3.23%) Rancher
8 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.61%) Avamar
8 1 (1.61%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.61%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (1.61%) SCCM
8 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 62 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (24.19%) Cisco
3 9 (14.52%) Dell
4 5 (8.06%) Atlassian
4 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.45%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.23%) Splunk
6 2 (3.23%) Symantec
6 2 (3.23%) Veeam
7 1 (1.61%) EMC
7 1 (1.61%) Juniper
7 1 (1.61%) NETGEAR
7 1 (1.61%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.61%) Wyse