vCenter Server Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware vCenter Server
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.43% 0.19% -
As % of the Systems Management category 3.08% 1.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £481 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% - -
75th Percentile £572 £575 -
90th Percentile £589 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £532 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -3.36% +37.50% -20.79%

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 130 59 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.86% 11.35% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 43 60
10th Percentile £281 £263 £234
25th Percentile £413 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +8.24% -32.00%
75th Percentile £550 £621 £578
90th Percentile £600 £700 £653
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £475 £406
% change year-on-year +2.53% +16.92% -22.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £34.04 - -
25th Percentile £45.65 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.58%
75th Percentile £76.13 - -
90th Percentile £76.80 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.07 £16.19 £35.33
% change year-on-year +295.72% -54.17% +90.95%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in Birmingham

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in Birmingham over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in Birmingham

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Architect
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
2 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) KVM
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Argo
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Pure Storage
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Splunk