vCenter Server Contracts in the Midlands

VMware vCenter Server
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for vCenter Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vCenter Server over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 146 194
Rank change year-on-year +20 +48 -47
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 13 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.48% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.83% 3.66% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 10
10th Percentile £298 £400 £384
25th Percentile £400 £450 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £505 £424
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% +19.17% +202.68%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £509
90th Percentile - £576 £563
England median daily rate £530 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +3.41% +13.89% +5.88%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 269 437 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.86% 12.70% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 301 375
10th Percentile £188 £231 £203
25th Percentile £350 £363 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +11.80%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £540
90th Percentile £650 £700 £623
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 18
10th Percentile £21.49 £17.72 £10.68
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.00 £12.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £21.67 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% +31.33% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40.57 £40.25 £19.94
90th Percentile £55.00 £50.55 £22.70
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -10.42%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the Midlands

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the Midlands

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the Midlands

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the Midlands

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Midlands +27 12 £425 -15.84% 5
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) DHCP
1 11 (84.62%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Implementation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Server Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) VMWare Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
1 11 (84.62%) Windows Server
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (38.46%) Unix
4 1 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (38.46%) Information Management
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
3 5 (38.46%) Security Monitoring
3 5 (38.46%) SIEM
3 5 (38.46%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Virtual Environments
3 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
4 4 (30.77%) Server Patching
5 3 (23.08%) Time Management
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.69%) Change Control
7 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
7 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C#
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (53.85%) VMware NSX
3 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Server
4 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (38.46%) Veeam
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) EMC