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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 444 502
Rank change year-on-year +2 +58 +9
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 102 75 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.11% 1.71% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 49 52
10th Percentile £413 £400 £358
25th Percentile £500 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.59% +1.30%
75th Percentile £558 £613 £625
90th Percentile £588 £678 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £66.80 - £63.13
25th Percentile £68.38 - £65.94
Median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +57.19% +3.26%
75th Percentile £86.32 - £75.94
90th Percentile £88.30 - £78.38
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +79.20% -9.42%

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 4,824 4,391 5,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 14.24% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,220 2,841 4,132
10th Percentile £308 £313 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £663
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 51 160
10th Percentile £18.65 £19.95 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.80 £29.31
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £63.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £34.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -16.18% -33.66% +105.00%

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 12 November 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 12 November 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 12 November 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 +21 40 £500 -13.04% 30
South West +10 18 £555 +3.26% 4
London +7 18 £520 +9.47% 8
North of England -45 14 £425 -10.53% 3
Yorkshire - 8 £413 -
East of England -9 6 £623 - 1
North West -27 6 £425 -10.53% 3
Midlands -25 3 £508 - 1
West Midlands -27 2 £365 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
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 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.92%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.94%) Confluence
4 3 (2.94%) IIS
5 1 (0.98%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.98%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (16.67%) Azure
2 11 (10.78%) OpenShift
3 10 (9.80%) AWS
4 6 (5.88%) IaaS
5 5 (4.90%) GitHub
5 5 (4.90%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.92%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.96%) GCP
8 2 (1.96%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.98%) PaaS
9 1 (0.98%) Route 53
9 1 (0.98%) SaaS
9 1 (0.98%) Serverless
9 1 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (38.24%) DNS
2 20 (19.61%) Cisco Firepower
2 20 (19.61%) Cisco IOS
2 20 (19.61%) Cisco ISE
2 20 (19.61%) Junos
3 19 (18.63%) Firewall
4 15 (14.71%) VSAN
5 10 (9.80%) DHCP
6 9 (8.82%) TCP/IP
7 8 (7.84%) SAN
7 8 (7.84%) Skype
8 6 (5.88%) VLAN
9 5 (4.90%) NAS
10 4 (3.92%) iSCSI
10 4 (3.92%) PCoIP
10 4 (3.92%) VPN
11 3 (2.94%) NX-OS
11 3 (2.94%) WAN
12 2 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 17 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.88%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) GitLab
3 5 (4.90%) JIRA
4 3 (2.94%) Subversion
5 2 (1.96%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.96%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.76%) Finance
4 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.96%) Electronics
7 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.96%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (24.51%) Network Engineer
2 22 (21.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 20 (19.61%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 19 (18.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (18.63%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 18 (17.65%) Support Engineer
6 17 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 16 (15.69%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (15.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 16 (15.69%) Architect
7 16 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (14.71%) Network Support
8 15 (14.71%) Network Support Engineer
9 8 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Senior
11 6 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Developer
12 5 (4.90%) ETL Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Storage Engineer
13 4 (3.92%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.88%) REST
2 5 (4.90%) RESTful
3 4 (3.92%) JSON
3 4 (3.92%) Middleware
3 4 (3.92%) XML
4 3 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.96%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.96%) Node.js
5 2 (1.96%) pytest
6 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.98%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) PKI
2 9 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.84%) Replication
4 6 (5.88%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.90%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.94%) Blog
7 3 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.96%) Clustering
8 2 (1.96%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 53 (51.96%) Windows
2 33 (32.35%) Linux
3 32 (31.37%) Windows Server
4 15 (14.71%) Windows 10
5 7 (6.86%) VMS
6 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.96%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.98%) CentOS
10 1 (0.98%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.51%) Service Management
2 24 (23.53%) ITSM
3 21 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (20.59%) Migration
4 18 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 14 (13.73%) DevOps
6 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.75%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (10.78%) Containerisation
8 10 (9.80%) ITIL
8 10 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (8.82%) Load Balancing
9 9 (8.82%) RBAC
10 8 (7.84%) High Availability
10 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (6.86%) Agile
11 7 (6.86%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (4.90%) Change Management
12 5 (4.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.49%) Python
2 16 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.80%) Bash
4 9 (8.82%) SQL
5 4 (3.92%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.92%) VBA
6 3 (2.94%) C++
6 3 (2.94%) Go
6 3 (2.94%) Java
6 3 (2.94%) PHP
7 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.98%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (55.88%) Security Cleared
2 31 (30.39%) DV Cleared
3 25 (24.51%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.92%) Degree
6 4 (3.92%) VCAP
7 3 (2.94%) CCNA
7 3 (2.94%) CCNP
7 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.96%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.94%) GDPR
2 3 (2.94%) NCSC
2 3 (2.94%) SLA
3 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (60.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (46.08%) VMware NSX
3 41 (40.20%) Active Directory
4 38 (37.25%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (30.39%) vSphere
6 24 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (6.86%) Docker
7 7 (6.86%) Firmware
8 4 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (2.94%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.96%) NFS
10 2 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.98%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (24.51%) Ansible
2 23 (22.55%) Terraform
3 10 (9.80%) Argo
3 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (6.86%) vMotion
6 6 (5.88%) WSUS
7 5 (4.90%) PowerCLI
8 4 (3.92%) Control-M
8 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.92%) vRealize
9 3 (2.94%) Grafana
9 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (2.94%) NetApp OnCommand
9 3 (2.94%) OPNET
9 3 (2.94%) Puppet
9 3 (2.94%) SCOM
10 2 (1.96%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (1.96%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 80 (78.43%) VMware
2 41 (40.20%) Cisco
3 38 (37.25%) Microsoft
4 27 (26.47%) SolarWinds
5 20 (19.61%) Juniper
6 12 (11.76%) Veeam
7 10 (9.80%) Dell
7 10 (9.80%) Red Hat
8 9 (8.82%) Pure Storage
9 6 (5.88%) Citrix
9 6 (5.88%) F5
10 5 (4.90%) Broadcom
10 5 (4.90%) EMC
10 5 (4.90%) NetApp
11 3 (2.94%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.94%) Splunk
12 2 (1.96%) Aruba
12 2 (1.96%) Google
12 2 (1.96%) Wyse