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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 123 141
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +49
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 2 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.78% 0.82% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £506 - £721
25th Percentile £507 - £753
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £700 £813
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% -13.85% +50.46%
75th Percentile £532 - £878
90th Percentile £535 - £914
Central London median daily rate £518 £700 £813
% change year-on-year -26.07% -13.85% +50.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

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 258 364 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.36% 17.08% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 239 305
10th Percentile £357 £354 £393
25th Percentile £425 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £732 £784
Central London median daily rate £533 £575 £543
% change year-on-year -7.30% +5.99% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.49 £44.00 -
25th Percentile £23.46 £69.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +397.78% +15.38%
75th Percentile £47.91 - £23.75
90th Percentile £58.51 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +12.50%

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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Junos
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VCAP
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) VMware