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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 123 126
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +35
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.053% 0.047%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.53% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.74%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
Central London median daily rate £500 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +21.74%

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 283 293 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.70% 15.59% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 202 227
10th Percentile £308 £276 £350
25th Percentile £459 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £774 £751
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £56.73 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £58.11 £35.53 £12.75
Median hourly rate £63.88 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% +70.77% -67.89%
75th Percentile £71.18 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £73.47 £62.04 £40.95
Central London median hourly rate £63.88 £28.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +124.15% +5.56% -67.89%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the City of London

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
1 6 (60.00%) VPN
2 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 3 (30.00%) SMTP
3 3 (30.00%) VSAN
4 2 (20.00%) DMZ
4 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) VLAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
5 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
1 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
2 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) SUSE
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Software Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Server Management
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (10.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (10.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (40.00%) vSphere
5 3 (30.00%) BitLocker
5 3 (30.00%) Docker
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (30.00%) Terminal Services
6 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (10.00%) Firmware
7 1 (10.00%) UAG
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) Puppet
4 3 (30.00%) Nagios
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
4 3 (30.00%) vMotion
5 2 (20.00%) FortiGate
5 2 (20.00%) Nessus
5 2 (20.00%) PowerCLI
5 2 (20.00%) SCCM
6 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) Google
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Symantec
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Tenable
4 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (10.00%) Dell