vCenter Server Contract Job Trends in England

VMware vCenter Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 429 492
Rank change year-on-year -9 +63 +21
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 106 78 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.14% 1.80% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 52 49
10th Percentile £413 £400 £322
25th Percentile £500 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £562 £613 £638
90th Percentile £652 £675 £734
UK median daily rate £505 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -5.70% +7.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £66.80 £74.40 -
25th Percentile £68.38 £88.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +40.00% +38.97%
75th Percentile £86.32 - -
90th Percentile £88.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.50 £112.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -29.91% +60.00% +21.60%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,960 4,341 5,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.02% 14.32% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 2,785 3,869
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £612 £643 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.57% -3.31% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 60 161
10th Percentile £17.67 £15.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%
75th Percentile £65.57 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.75 £74.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +25.93% -41.53% +44.31%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in England

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in England over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing vCenter Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing vCenter Server in England over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the England region over the 6 months to 10 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +3 44 £500 -13.04% 19
South West -7 18 £555 +3.26% 3
London -5 17 £520 +18.86% 5
North of England -41 13 £425 -10.53% 9
East of England -6 8 £675 - 4
Yorkshire - 7 £413 - 2
North West -19 6 £425 -10.53% 6
Midlands -30 3 £508 - 3
West Midlands -25 2 £365 -
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 3
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.77%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.89%) Confluence
4 2 (1.89%) IIS
5 1 (0.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.15%) Azure
2 10 (9.43%) OpenShift
3 9 (8.49%) AWS
4 7 (6.60%) IaaS
5 5 (4.72%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.77%) GitHub
7 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.89%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.89%) PaaS
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.94%) GCP
9 1 (0.94%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.94%) Route 53
9 1 (0.94%) SaaS
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (37.74%) DNS
2 22 (20.75%) Cisco Firepower
2 22 (20.75%) Cisco IOS
2 22 (20.75%) Cisco ISE
2 22 (20.75%) Junos
3 20 (18.87%) Firewall
4 13 (12.26%) VSAN
5 9 (8.49%) DHCP
5 9 (8.49%) TCP/IP
6 8 (7.55%) SAN
6 8 (7.55%) Skype
7 6 (5.66%) VLAN
8 5 (4.72%) NAS
8 5 (4.72%) NX-OS
9 4 (3.77%) PCoIP
9 4 (3.77%) VPN
10 3 (2.83%) iSCSI
10 3 (2.83%) WAN
11 2 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (15.09%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.66%) Git
2 6 (5.66%) GitLab
3 4 (3.77%) JIRA
4 3 (2.83%) Subversion
5 2 (1.89%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.89%) Robot Framework
General
1 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.49%) Finance
4 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Banking
6 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.89%) Electronics
7 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.89%) Marketing
7 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Police
8 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (24.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 26 (24.53%) Network Engineer
2 22 (20.75%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 21 (19.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (19.81%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 19 (17.92%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 18 (16.98%) Support Engineer
6 17 (16.04%) Architect
7 16 (15.09%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (15.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (14.15%) Network Support
8 15 (14.15%) Network Support Engineer
9 14 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (8.49%) VMware Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Senior
11 6 (5.66%) VMware Specialist
12 5 (4.72%) Developer
12 5 (4.72%) ETL Developer
12 5 (4.72%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) REST
1 5 (4.72%) RESTful
2 4 (3.77%) JSON
2 4 (3.77%) XML
3 3 (2.83%) Middleware
3 3 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (1.89%) ModSecurity
4 2 (1.89%) Node.js
4 2 (1.89%) pytest
5 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.94%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.04%) PKI
2 9 (8.49%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.55%) Replication
4 7 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.66%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.83%) Blog
7 3 (2.83%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.89%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (52.83%) Windows
2 33 (31.13%) Linux
2 33 (31.13%) Windows Server
3 15 (14.15%) Windows 10
4 9 (8.49%) VMS
5 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.94%) Solaris
8 1 (0.94%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.42%) ITSM
2 26 (24.53%) Service Management
3 20 (18.87%) Migration
4 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
6 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.21%) DevOps
8 11 (10.38%) Containerisation
8 11 (10.38%) ITIL
8 11 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (10.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (8.49%) Agile
9 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (8.49%) Load Balancing
10 8 (7.55%) Change Management
10 8 (7.55%) High Availability
10 8 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (7.55%) RBAC
11 7 (6.60%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.64%) Python
2 19 (17.92%) PowerShell
3 11 (10.38%) Bash
4 9 (8.49%) SQL
5 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.77%) VBA
6 3 (2.83%) C++
6 3 (2.83%) Go
6 3 (2.83%) Java
6 3 (2.83%) PHP
7 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.94%) Perl
8 1 (0.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (62.26%) Security Cleared
2 39 (36.79%) DV Cleared
3 25 (23.58%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.72%) Degree
5 5 (4.72%) VCAP
6 3 (2.83%) CCNA
6 3 (2.83%) CCNP
6 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.89%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.77%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.77%) GDPR
2 3 (2.83%) NCSC
3 2 (1.89%) SLA
4 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (58.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (46.23%) VMware NSX
3 41 (38.68%) Active Directory
4 38 (35.85%) VMware ESXi
5 33 (31.13%) vSphere
6 23 (21.70%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (7.55%) Docker
8 6 (5.66%) Firmware
9 4 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.89%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.89%) NFS
10 2 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.94%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 24 (22.64%) Ansible
2 22 (20.75%) Terraform
3 10 (9.43%) Argo
3 10 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (4.72%) PowerCLI
5 5 (4.72%) SCOM
5 5 (4.72%) WSUS
6 4 (3.77%) Control-M
6 4 (3.77%) SCCM
6 4 (3.77%) vMotion
6 4 (3.77%) vRealize
7 3 (2.83%) Grafana
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.83%) OPNET
7 3 (2.83%) Puppet
8 2 (1.89%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.89%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.89%) NetApp OnCommand
Vendors
1 83 (78.30%) VMware
2 39 (36.79%) Cisco
3 38 (35.85%) Microsoft
4 29 (27.36%) SolarWinds
5 22 (20.75%) Juniper
6 13 (12.26%) Veeam
7 11 (10.38%) Red Hat
8 9 (8.49%) Dell
8 9 (8.49%) Pure Storage
9 7 (6.60%) Broadcom
10 6 (5.66%) F5
11 5 (4.72%) EMC
11 5 (4.72%) NetApp
12 4 (3.77%) Citrix
13 3 (2.83%) Palo Alto
13 3 (2.83%) Splunk
14 2 (1.89%) Aruba
14 2 (1.89%) CheckPoint
14 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
14 2 (1.89%) Wyse