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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 611 711 964
Rank change year-on-year +100 +253 -236
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 288 287 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.90% 1.93% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 204 166 204
10th Percentile £39,675 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +8.70% -16.36%
75th Percentile £69,063 £63,938 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £75,525
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +11.11% -2.17%

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 9,920 14,837 28,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.61% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,137 9,151 14,123
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

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 8 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 8 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 +93 260 £52,500 +5.00% 35
UK excluding London +1 217 £51,000 +2.00% 29
Work from Home +135 147 £60,000 +14.29% 15
South East +33 76 £48,500 -1.02% 11
London +129 68 £82,500 +37.50% 5
South West 0 53 £51,000 +27.50% 8
North of England +51 39 £63,750 +30.77% 3
Yorkshire +94 27 £63,750 +123.68% 2
Midlands -11 18 £54,000 +2.86% 5
Scotland -58 16 £65,000 +22.07% 1
West Midlands +13 13 £54,000 +8.00% 3
North West +1 11 £82,500 +50.00%
Northern Ireland +26 6 £51,000 -
Wales +9 5 - -
East of England -19 5 £45,000 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -29 5 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 1

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 (18.75%) Apache
2 52 (18.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 149 (51.74%) Azure
2 96 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (25.69%) Entra ID
4 64 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 45 (15.63%) AWS
6 25 (8.68%) OneDrive
7 17 (5.90%) SaaS
8 15 (5.21%) Nutanix
9 12 (4.17%) OCI
10 10 (3.47%) GCP
11 8 (2.78%) IaaS
11 8 (2.78%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.08%) WhatsApp
13 4 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.39%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.39%) PaaS
14 1 (0.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 98 (34.03%) Firewall
2 75 (26.04%) Internet
3 74 (25.69%) SNMP
4 63 (21.88%) VPN
5 60 (20.83%) SAN
6 59 (20.49%) DNS
7 54 (18.75%) IPsec
8 44 (15.28%) DHCP
9 25 (8.68%) NAS
10 22 (7.64%) TCP/IP
11 21 (7.29%) VSAN
11 21 (7.29%) WAN
12 20 (6.94%) LAN
13 16 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
14 14 (4.86%) Unified Communications
15 13 (4.51%) NetScaler
16 12 (4.17%) SMTP
17 11 (3.82%) iSCSI
17 11 (3.82%) Wireless
18 10 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (22.57%) Elasticsearch
2 64 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.25%) MySQL
4 14 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (6.94%) JIRA
2 10 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 71 (24.65%) Finance
1 71 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.29%) Law
3 20 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.82%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.82%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.43%) Legal
7 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Banking
9 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) French Language
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 101 (35.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 62 (21.53%) Consultant
3 54 (18.75%) NetApp Consultant
4 51 (17.71%) Senior
5 35 (12.15%) Support Engineer
6 32 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (8.68%) Infrastructure Support
7 25 (8.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 22 (7.64%) Lead
9 21 (7.29%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (7.29%) VMware Engineer
10 19 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (5.90%) Storage Engineer
12 16 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 14 (4.86%) Backup Engineer
13 14 (4.86%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.86%) Storage and Backup Engineer
14 12 (4.17%) Team Leader
15 11 (3.82%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (3.82%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.22%) YAML
2 56 (19.44%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.39%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.39%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.39%) XMPP
5 2 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.35%) JSON
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 97 (33.68%) Data Centre
2 41 (14.24%) Clustering
3 18 (6.25%) PKI
3 18 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.90%) EMC VNX
5 15 (5.21%) Replication
5 15 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.78%) EFT
7 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.74%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.04%) Smartcard
10 2 (0.69%) CMDB
10 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.35%) FlexPod
11 1 (0.35%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 246 (85.42%) Windows
2 165 (57.29%) Windows Server
3 158 (54.86%) Linux
4 55 (19.10%) Data ONTAP
5 54 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 40 (13.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 39 (13.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (7.99%) CentOS
9 21 (7.29%) Ubuntu
10 19 (6.60%) Windows 10
11 12 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (4.17%) Windows XP
12 4 (1.39%) Debian
12 4 (1.39%) Rocky
13 2 (0.69%) VMS
14 1 (0.35%) Unix
14 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (36.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 92 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (25.35%) Project Management
4 68 (23.61%) Storage Management
5 54 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
5 54 (18.75%) Infrastructure Management
5 54 (18.75%) Project Planning
5 54 (18.75%) Release Management
6 45 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (12.50%) Migration
8 34 (11.81%) Mentoring
9 33 (11.46%) ITIL
10 32 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 29 (10.07%) Agile
12 27 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (9.03%) Incident Management
14 24 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (7.64%) Time Management
16 21 (7.29%) Information Security
17 20 (6.94%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.72%) PowerShell
2 87 (30.21%) Python
3 31 (10.76%) Bash
4 11 (3.82%) ActionScript
5 10 (3.47%) Perl
5 10 (3.47%) VB
6 5 (1.74%) SQL
7 1 (0.35%) Java
7 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (30.21%) Security Cleared
2 61 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.81%) DV Cleared
4 26 (9.03%) Degree
5 21 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (6.25%) CCNA
6 18 (6.25%) CCNP
6 18 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 13 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.13%) MCSE
9 8 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.35%) MCSA
11 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.90%) SLA
2 8 (2.78%) PMO
3 4 (1.39%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.35%) GxP
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 201 (69.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 168 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
3 155 (53.82%) Active Directory
4 76 (26.39%) Docker
5 74 (25.69%) vSphere
6 20 (6.94%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.47%) OpenSSH
7 10 (3.47%) XenApp
8 8 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.78%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.43%) Firmware
9 7 (2.43%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (2.43%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.39%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.35%) KVM
11 1 (0.35%) NFS
11 1 (0.35%) Samba
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (32.64%) Ansible
2 80 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 41 (14.24%) SCCM
5 38 (13.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (10.07%) EMC NetWorker
7 28 (9.72%) Nagios
7 28 (9.72%) Puppet
8 27 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (9.03%) WSUS
10 20 (6.94%) Microsoft Clustering
11 16 (5.56%) Terraform
12 15 (5.21%) PowerCLI
13 14 (4.86%) SCOM
13 14 (4.86%) vRealize
14 13 (4.51%) NetBackup
15 11 (3.82%) HAProxy
16 10 (3.47%) Grafana
16 10 (3.47%) IBM BigFix
16 10 (3.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 277 (96.18%) VMware
2 97 (33.68%) Microsoft
3 78 (27.08%) Red Hat
4 70 (24.31%) NetApp
5 68 (23.61%) Palo Alto
6 57 (19.79%) Veeam
7 54 (18.75%) SolidFire
8 41 (14.24%) Citrix
9 35 (12.15%) Cisco
10 30 (10.42%) EMC
11 28 (9.72%) SolarWinds
12 26 (9.03%) Dell
13 25 (8.68%) ServiceNow
14 24 (8.33%) Commvault
15 22 (7.64%) 3PAR
16 20 (6.94%) Sun
17 19 (6.60%) Brocade
18 17 (5.90%) HP
19 16 (5.56%) Oracle
20 14 (4.86%) Juniper