VMware vCenter Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for vCenter Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited vCenter Server over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 615 682 969
Rank change year-on-year +67 +287 -210
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 289 275 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.93% 1.90% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 202 159 198
10th Percentile £41,275 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -7.61%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

vCenter Server is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,854 14,460 30,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 14.68% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,058 8,969 14,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server.

Salary trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +117 262 £53,000 +6.00% 35
UK excluding London +31 218 £52,500 +5.00% 31
Work from Home +134 150 £62,500 +13.64% 13
South East +25 75 £48,500 -1.02% 12
London +123 70 £82,500 +37.50% 5
South West +10 53 £51,000 +27.50% 5
North of England +54 41 £63,750 +21.43% 5
Yorkshire +98 28 £63,750 +86.13% 4
Midlands -19 18 £54,000 +2.86% 6
Scotland -57 16 £65,000 +22.07% 1
West Midlands +13 13 £54,000 +10.77% 4
North West -3 11 £82,500 +50.00% 1
Northern Ireland +26 6 £51,000 -
Wales +9 5 - -
East of England -17 5 £45,000 -21.74% 2
East Midlands -21 5 - - 2
North East - 2 £37,500 -

vCenter Server
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 54 (18.69%) Apache
2 51 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.46%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 150 (51.90%) Azure
2 97 (33.56%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (25.95%) Entra ID
4 63 (21.80%) Amazon S3
5 44 (15.22%) AWS
6 26 (9.00%) OneDrive
7 17 (5.88%) SaaS
8 14 (4.84%) Nutanix
9 12 (4.15%) OCI
10 9 (3.11%) GCP
11 8 (2.77%) IaaS
11 8 (2.77%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.08%) WhatsApp
13 5 (1.73%) PaaS
14 3 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (1.04%) Azure Storage
15 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 1 (0.35%) Azure Monitor
15 1 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
15 1 (0.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 97 (33.56%) Firewall
2 76 (26.30%) Internet
3 72 (24.91%) SNMP
4 64 (22.15%) VPN
5 61 (21.11%) DNS
5 61 (21.11%) SAN
6 54 (18.69%) IPsec
7 45 (15.57%) DHCP
8 26 (9.00%) NAS
9 22 (7.61%) TCP/IP
9 22 (7.61%) VSAN
10 21 (7.27%) WAN
11 20 (6.92%) LAN
12 15 (5.19%) Fibre Channel
13 14 (4.84%) Unified Communications
14 12 (4.15%) iSCSI
14 12 (4.15%) NetScaler
15 11 (3.81%) SMTP
15 11 (3.81%) Wireless
16 10 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (22.15%) Elasticsearch
2 63 (21.80%) MongoDB
3 17 (5.88%) MySQL
3 17 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) Big Data
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.92%) JIRA
2 9 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 75 (25.95%) Finance
2 71 (24.57%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.96%) Law
4 19 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.81%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.46%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.77%) Legal
8 7 (2.42%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) French Language
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 104 (35.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (21.80%) Consultant
3 54 (18.69%) NetApp Consultant
4 51 (17.65%) Senior
5 32 (11.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (11.07%) Support Engineer
6 27 (9.34%) Infrastructure Support
6 27 (9.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 23 (7.96%) VMware Engineer
8 22 (7.61%) Lead
9 21 (7.27%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (6.23%) Storage Engineer
11 17 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 14 (4.84%) Backup Engineer
12 14 (4.84%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.84%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 12 (4.15%) Team Leader
14 11 (3.81%) Server Engineer
14 11 (3.81%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.80%) YAML
2 56 (19.38%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.38%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.38%) XMPP
5 3 (1.04%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.69%) .NET
7 1 (0.35%) JSON
7 1 (0.35%) OAuth
7 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 98 (33.91%) Data Centre
2 43 (14.88%) Clustering
3 20 (6.92%) PKI
4 18 (6.23%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.88%) EMC VNX
6 15 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (4.84%) Replication
8 7 (2.42%) EFT
9 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.73%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.69%) CMDB
13 2 (0.69%) Smartcard
13 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 1 (0.35%) Blackberry
14 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
14 1 (0.35%) Hedge funds
14 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 247 (85.47%) Windows
2 166 (57.44%) Windows Server
3 155 (53.63%) Linux
4 55 (19.03%) Data ONTAP
4 55 (19.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 44 (15.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 40 (13.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (7.96%) CentOS
8 21 (7.27%) Ubuntu
9 20 (6.92%) Windows 10
10 14 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (4.15%) Windows XP
12 4 (1.38%) Debian
12 4 (1.38%) Rocky
13 2 (0.69%) Unix
13 2 (0.69%) VMS
14 1 (0.35%) SUSE
14 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (38.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (31.49%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (25.26%) Project Management
4 68 (23.53%) Storage Management
5 55 (19.03%) Infrastructure Management
5 55 (19.03%) Release Management
6 54 (18.69%) Actionable Insight
6 54 (18.69%) Project Planning
7 44 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (12.46%) Mentoring
8 36 (12.46%) Migration
9 33 (11.42%) ITIL
10 32 (11.07%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (10.38%) Agile
12 26 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
13 22 (7.61%) Incident Management
13 22 (7.61%) Performance Tuning
14 21 (7.27%) Information Security
14 21 (7.27%) Systems Engineering
14 21 (7.27%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (35.64%) PowerShell
2 86 (29.76%) Python
3 30 (10.38%) Bash
4 13 (4.50%) ActionScript
5 12 (4.15%) VB
6 9 (3.11%) Perl
7 6 (2.08%) SQL
8 1 (0.35%) Java
8 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 84 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.03%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 28 (9.69%) Degree
5 21 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (6.23%) CCNA
6 18 (6.23%) CCNP
6 18 (6.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 13 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.11%) MCSE
9 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.69%) MCSA
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Architect
10 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.57%) SLA
2 8 (2.77%) PMO
3 4 (1.38%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.69%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.35%) GxP
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 200 (69.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 167 (57.79%) VMware ESXi
3 157 (54.33%) Active Directory
4 79 (27.34%) vSphere
5 75 (25.95%) Docker
6 21 (7.27%) Hyper-V
7 12 (4.15%) OpenSSH
7 12 (4.15%) XenApp
8 8 (2.77%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.42%) Firmware
9 7 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (2.42%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.38%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.69%) NFS
13 1 (0.35%) KVM
13 1 (0.35%) Samba
13 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (32.18%) Ansible
2 80 (27.68%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.69%) Prometheus
4 41 (14.19%) SCCM
5 38 (13.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (10.03%) EMC NetWorker
7 28 (9.69%) Nagios
8 27 (9.34%) Puppet
8 27 (9.34%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (8.30%) WSUS
10 20 (6.92%) Microsoft Clustering
11 16 (5.54%) PowerCLI
11 16 (5.54%) Terraform
12 15 (5.19%) SCOM
13 13 (4.50%) NetBackup
13 13 (4.50%) vRealize
14 12 (4.15%) IBM BigFix
15 11 (3.81%) HAProxy
16 10 (3.46%) ZABBIX
17 9 (3.11%) Graphite
Vendors
1 279 (96.54%) VMware
2 98 (33.91%) Microsoft
3 78 (26.99%) Red Hat
4 69 (23.88%) NetApp
5 67 (23.18%) Palo Alto
6 56 (19.38%) Veeam
7 54 (18.69%) SolidFire
8 42 (14.53%) Citrix
9 34 (11.76%) Cisco
10 30 (10.38%) EMC
11 28 (9.69%) SolarWinds
12 27 (9.34%) Dell
13 26 (9.00%) ServiceNow
14 23 (7.96%) Commvault
15 21 (7.27%) 3PAR
16 20 (6.92%) Sun
17 18 (6.23%) Brocade
18 17 (5.88%) Oracle
19 16 (5.54%) HP
20 14 (4.84%) Juniper