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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 631 689 961
Rank change year-on-year +58 +272 -211
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 291 270 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.95% 1.89% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 201 154 205
10th Percentile £41,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £49,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.51% +17.06% -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 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

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 28 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 28 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 +97 264 £52,750 +5.50% 34
UK excluding London +11 221 £51,000 +2.51% 27
Work from Home +145 151 £55,750 +1.36% 7
South East +20 77 £48,500 -1.02% 13
London +150 69 £82,500 +37.50% 5
South West 0 54 £51,000 +27.50% 6
North of England +65 41 £63,750 +41.67% 3
Yorkshire +97 29 £63,750 +86.13% 2
Midlands -14 18 £54,000 +2.86% 4
Scotland -55 16 £65,000 +15.04%
West Midlands +15 13 £54,000 +10.77% 3
North West +3 10 - - 1
Northern Ireland +19 6 £51,000 -
Wales +3 5 - -
East Midlands -29 5 - - 1
East of England -30 5 £45,000 -16.28% 1
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 (18.56%) Apache
2 52 (17.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.44%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 150 (51.55%) Azure
2 100 (34.36%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (26.12%) Entra ID
4 63 (21.65%) Amazon S3
5 42 (14.43%) AWS
6 27 (9.28%) OneDrive
7 15 (5.15%) SaaS
8 13 (4.47%) Nutanix
9 12 (4.12%) OCI
10 9 (3.09%) GCP
10 9 (3.09%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.06%) IaaS
11 6 (2.06%) WhatsApp
12 3 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.03%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.03%) PaaS
13 1 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.34%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.34%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 99 (34.02%) Firewall
2 77 (26.46%) Internet
3 72 (24.74%) SNMP
4 64 (21.99%) VPN
5 62 (21.31%) SAN
6 60 (20.62%) DNS
7 54 (18.56%) IPsec
8 44 (15.12%) DHCP
9 27 (9.28%) NAS
10 23 (7.90%) TCP/IP
11 22 (7.56%) VSAN
12 21 (7.22%) WAN
13 20 (6.87%) LAN
14 16 (5.50%) Fibre Channel
15 14 (4.81%) Unified Communications
16 13 (4.47%) iSCSI
17 12 (4.12%) NetScaler
18 11 (3.78%) SMTP
18 11 (3.78%) Wireless
18 11 (3.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (21.99%) Elasticsearch
2 63 (21.65%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.19%) MySQL
3 18 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.34%) Big Data
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.87%) JIRA
2 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.03%) GitLab
General
1 76 (26.12%) Finance
2 71 (24.40%) Social Skills
3 23 (7.90%) Law
4 19 (6.53%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.44%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.41%) Legal
8 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) French Language
11 1 (0.34%) German Language
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 107 (36.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (21.65%) Consultant
3 54 (18.56%) NetApp Consultant
4 51 (17.53%) Senior
5 32 (11.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (11.00%) Support Engineer
6 28 (9.62%) Infrastructure Support
6 28 (9.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 24 (8.25%) VMware Engineer
8 22 (7.56%) Lead
8 22 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (7.22%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (6.53%) Storage Engineer
11 18 (6.19%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 15 (5.15%) Backup Engineer
12 15 (5.15%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.15%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 12 (4.12%) Team Leader
13 12 (4.12%) VMware Support Engineer
14 11 (3.78%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.65%) YAML
2 56 (19.24%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.37%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.37%) XMPP
5 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.69%) .NET
7 1 (0.34%) JSON
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 100 (34.36%) Data Centre
2 44 (15.12%) Clustering
3 21 (7.22%) PKI
4 19 (6.53%) EMC VNX
5 16 (5.50%) Public Cloud
6 15 (5.15%) Replication
6 15 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.41%) EFT
8 6 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.72%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.69%) CMDB
12 2 (0.69%) Smartcard
12 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.34%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 250 (85.91%) Windows
2 168 (57.73%) Windows Server
3 156 (53.61%) Linux
4 56 (19.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 55 (18.90%) Data ONTAP
6 45 (15.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 41 (14.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (8.25%) CentOS
9 21 (7.22%) Ubuntu
10 20 (6.87%) Windows 10
11 14 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (4.12%) Windows XP
13 5 (1.72%) Rocky
14 4 (1.37%) Debian
15 2 (0.69%) Unix
15 2 (0.69%) VMS
16 1 (0.34%) SUSE
16 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (38.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 91 (31.27%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (25.09%) Project Management
4 68 (23.37%) Storage Management
5 55 (18.90%) Infrastructure Management
5 55 (18.90%) Release Management
6 54 (18.56%) Actionable Insight
6 54 (18.56%) Project Planning
7 42 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (13.40%) Mentoring
9 36 (12.37%) Migration
10 33 (11.34%) ITIL
11 32 (11.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 28 (9.62%) Agile
13 26 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (7.56%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (7.22%) Incident Management
15 21 (7.22%) Information Security
15 21 (7.22%) Systems Engineering
15 21 (7.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (35.40%) PowerShell
2 86 (29.55%) Python
3 30 (10.31%) Bash
4 14 (4.81%) ActionScript
5 13 (4.47%) VB
6 9 (3.09%) Perl
7 6 (2.06%) SQL
8 1 (0.34%) Java
8 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 83 (28.52%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 29 (9.97%) Degree
5 21 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (6.19%) CCNA
6 18 (6.19%) CCNP
6 18 (6.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 14 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.09%) MCSE
9 3 (1.03%) MCSA
10 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.34%) CCA
11 1 (0.34%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Architect
11 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.87%) SLA
2 7 (2.41%) PMO
3 4 (1.37%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.69%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.34%) GxP
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 199 (68.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 168 (57.73%) VMware ESXi
3 158 (54.30%) Active Directory
4 80 (27.49%) vSphere
5 76 (26.12%) Docker
6 21 (7.22%) Hyper-V
7 13 (4.47%) OpenSSH
7 13 (4.47%) XenApp
8 8 (2.75%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.41%) Firmware
9 7 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (2.41%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.37%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.69%) NFS
12 1 (0.34%) KVM
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.34%) Samba
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 93 (31.96%) Ansible
2 81 (27.84%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.56%) Prometheus
4 42 (14.43%) SCCM
5 38 (13.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 31 (10.65%) EMC NetWorker
7 30 (10.31%) Nagios
8 27 (9.28%) Puppet
8 27 (9.28%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (8.25%) WSUS
10 20 (6.87%) Microsoft Clustering
11 17 (5.84%) PowerCLI
12 16 (5.50%) Terraform
13 15 (5.15%) SCOM
14 13 (4.47%) IBM BigFix
14 13 (4.47%) NetBackup
15 12 (4.12%) vRealize
16 11 (3.78%) HAProxy
16 11 (3.78%) ZABBIX
17 9 (3.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 281 (96.56%) VMware
2 101 (34.71%) Microsoft
3 78 (26.80%) Red Hat
4 70 (24.05%) NetApp
5 67 (23.02%) Palo Alto
6 58 (19.93%) Veeam
7 54 (18.56%) SolidFire
8 43 (14.78%) Citrix
9 34 (11.68%) Cisco
10 32 (11.00%) EMC
11 30 (10.31%) SolarWinds
12 27 (9.28%) Dell
13 26 (8.93%) ServiceNow
14 23 (7.90%) Commvault
15 20 (6.87%) 3PAR
15 20 (6.87%) Sun
16 18 (6.19%) Brocade
16 18 (6.19%) Oracle
17 16 (5.50%) HP
18 14 (4.81%) Juniper