Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VSAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VSAN over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 810 925 1160
Rank change year-on-year +115 +235 -337
Permanent jobs citing VSAN 74 50 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.050% 0.050%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.55% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 55 45 69
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,239 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £74,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £66,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year - +9.95% -4.50%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,475 15,695 21,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.78% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,380 7,937 11,850
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

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 May 2024.

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 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +111 72 £52,500 - 17
UK excluding London +18 65 £52,500 - 11
South West +17 43 £52,500 -8.70% 3
Work from Home +96 31 £52,500 - 4
East of England - 8 £30,000 -
Midlands -4 7 £43,227 -13.55% 3
North of England +18 6 £52,500 - 1
North West -18 6 £52,500 - 1
London +104 5 £55,500 +3.26% 6
West Midlands - 5 £43,227 - 1
East Midlands -20 2 £35,000 -30.00% 2
South East +8 1 £32,500 - 4

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 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (17.57%) AWS
3 12 (16.22%) Azure
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.35%) CloudFront
4 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.35%) GitHub
4 1 (1.35%) IaaS
4 1 (1.35%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.35%) SaaS
4 1 (1.35%) Serverless
4 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (22.97%) DNS
2 16 (21.62%) DHCP
3 14 (18.92%) Firewall
4 11 (14.86%) WAN
5 9 (12.16%) LAN
6 8 (10.81%) TCP/IP
7 4 (5.41%) RTP
8 3 (4.05%) Internet
8 3 (4.05%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (2.70%) NAS
9 2 (2.70%) SAN
9 2 (2.70%) SD-WAN
9 2 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (1.35%) ISDN
10 1 (1.35%) MPLS
10 1 (1.35%) PBX
10 1 (1.35%) SNMP
10 1 (1.35%) VLAN
10 1 (1.35%) VPN
10 1 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.05%) MySQL
3 2 (2.70%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.35%) JIRA
General
1 11 (14.86%) Aerospace
2 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.76%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.41%) Police
6 3 (4.05%) Games
6 3 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) Finance
7 1 (1.35%) French Language
7 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (22.97%) Administrator
1 17 (22.97%) Systems Administrator
1 17 (22.97%) Systems Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) VMWare Administrator
3 9 (12.16%) Analyst
4 8 (10.81%) IT Analyst
4 8 (10.81%) Systems Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Senior
6 6 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Server Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Virtualisation Administrator
8 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Project Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) XMPP
2 1 (1.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Data Centre
2 15 (20.27%) PKI
3 8 (10.81%) Clustering
3 8 (10.81%) Operational Technology
4 6 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.41%) Driving Licence
5 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.35%) CCTV
7 1 (1.35%) FlexPod
7 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.35%) Replication
7 1 (1.35%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 35 (47.30%) Linux
2 34 (45.95%) Windows
3 33 (44.59%) Windows Server
4 10 (13.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (12.16%) Windows 10
5 9 (12.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (9.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (8.11%) Debian
8 1 (1.35%) CentOS
8 1 (1.35%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.35%) Unix
8 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.97%) Agile
1 17 (22.97%) ITIL
2 15 (20.27%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (14.86%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (14.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 10 (13.51%) Customer Service
6 9 (12.16%) Change Management
6 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.81%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (10.81%) Line Management
7 8 (10.81%) RBAC
7 8 (10.81%) Security Hardening
7 8 (10.81%) Time Management
8 6 (8.11%) Tech Ops
9 5 (6.76%) Containerisation
10 4 (5.41%) Cloud Security
10 4 (5.41%) Converged Infrastructure
10 4 (5.41%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) Python
2 17 (22.97%) Bash
3 11 (14.86%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.16%) SQL
5 5 (6.76%) Java
6 4 (5.41%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) C
7 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.81%) A+ Certification
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.41%) MCSA
6 3 (4.05%) HND
7 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.70%) Degree
8 1 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) GDPR
2 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (89.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (74.32%) vSphere
3 32 (43.24%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (39.19%) Active Directory
5 25 (33.78%) Hyper-V
6 12 (16.22%) VMware NSX
7 5 (6.76%) Docker
8 3 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.35%) DFS Replication
9 1 (1.35%) pfSense
9 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) vCenter Server
2 17 (22.97%) Ansible
2 17 (22.97%) Puppet
3 9 (12.16%) McAfee ePO
4 8 (10.81%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (10.81%) SCVMM
5 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.41%) Podman
6 4 (5.41%) SCCM
7 3 (4.05%) FortiGate
7 3 (4.05%) VxRail
8 1 (1.35%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.35%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (94.59%) VMware
2 20 (27.03%) HP
3 19 (25.68%) Microsoft
4 15 (20.27%) Dell
5 13 (17.57%) Cisco
6 9 (12.16%) McAfee
7 8 (10.81%) NetApp
8 6 (8.11%) Veeam
9 4 (5.41%) Juniper
10 3 (4.05%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (2.70%) BT
11 2 (2.70%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.70%) Commvault
11 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.35%) Mitel
12 1 (1.35%) QNAP
12 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 1 (1.35%) SAP
12 1 (1.35%) Ubiquiti