vCenter Server Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

VMware vCenter Server
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 15 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 7.21% - 1.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% - 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile £553 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £563 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
Basingstoke

vCenter Server falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 60 75 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 28.85% 26.32% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 5
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile £500 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £663
90th Percentile £613 £638 £693
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.00 £24.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.37% -55.45% +150.00%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vCenter Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing vCenter Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) IaaS
1 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
1 2 (13.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco IOS
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco ISE
1 13 (86.67%) Junos
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) SMTP
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 14 (93.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 14 (93.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 14 (93.33%) Support Engineer
3 13 (86.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 13 (86.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (86.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 13 (86.67%) Network Engineer
4 12 (80.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 12 (80.00%) Network Support
4 12 (80.00%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (13.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
1 15 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) ITSM
1 13 (86.67%) Service Management
2 2 (13.33%) AI
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (13.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (86.67%) VMware NSX
3 2 (13.33%) BitLocker
3 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (13.33%) Terminal Services
3 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Nagios
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
1 2 (13.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco
1 13 (86.67%) Juniper
1 13 (86.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (13.33%) Citrix
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) HP
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Symantec
2 2 (13.33%) VMware