vCenter Server Contract Job Trends in the City of London

VMware vCenter Server
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - -
75th Percentile £521 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
Central London median daily rate £493 - -

All Systems Management Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 256 331 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.44% 18.76% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 226 200
10th Percentile £350 £311 £348
25th Percentile £413 £454 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £652
90th Percentile £725 £731 £759
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £27.82 - -
25th Percentile £38.32 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £20.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.92%
75th Percentile £67.36 - £32.81
90th Percentile £71.94 - £43.28
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £20.25
% change year-on-year -3.71% +30.62% -75.92%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in the City of London

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vCenter Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vCenter Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Junos
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) NX-OS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) SUSE
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) VCAP
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds