vCenter Server Contracts in England

VMware vCenter Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring vCenter Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vCenter Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 409 453
Rank change year-on-year +22 +44 +159
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 98 133 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.59% 3.03% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 92 140
10th Percentile £415 £328 £399
25th Percentile £513 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +3.41% +13.89%
75th Percentile £603 £608 £613
90th Percentile £675 £650 £656
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £522
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.57% +15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 27
10th Percentile - £65.18 £26.80
25th Percentile - £67.31 £29.30
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +71.18% -20.56%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £50.83
90th Percentile - £77.33 £86.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% +58.82% -26.09%

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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in England.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 West +42 35 £575 +9.52% 8
South East +31 26 £575 -4.96% 13
North of England +21 23 £350 -5.41% 7
North West +23 14 £350 -39.13% 6
Yorkshire +9 9 £488 +43.38% 1
London +27 7 £525 -12.50% 6
East of England - 5 £550 -
Midlands +10 1 £550 +29.41% 7
West Midlands +3 1 £550 +29.41% 4
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (20.41%) Confluence
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.08%) IIS
3 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.33%) OpenShift
2 14 (14.29%) Azure
2 14 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (11.22%) AWS
4 9 (9.18%) GCP
4 9 (9.18%) IaaS
4 9 (9.18%) PaaS
5 7 (7.14%) SaaS
6 6 (6.12%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.08%) GitHub
7 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.02%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (28.57%) DNS
2 22 (22.45%) Firewall
3 20 (20.41%) DHCP
4 15 (15.31%) VSAN
5 13 (13.27%) SAN
6 10 (10.20%) SMTP
6 10 (10.20%) VPN
7 7 (7.14%) Network Security
8 5 (5.10%) BGP
8 5 (5.10%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (5.10%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (5.10%) DMVPN
8 5 (5.10%) OSPF
8 5 (5.10%) VXLAN
9 4 (4.08%) NAS
10 3 (3.06%) LAN
10 3 (3.06%) WLAN
11 2 (2.04%) iSCSI
12 1 (1.02%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (9.18%) Big Data
1 9 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (20.41%) JIRA
2 16 (16.33%) Git
3 13 (13.27%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.22%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.08%) GitLab
General
1 23 (23.47%) Public Sector
1 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.08%) Legal
4 2 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (1.02%) Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (38.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (17.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 17 (17.35%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 13 (13.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Senior
5 9 (9.18%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (9.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Support Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (7.14%) Administrator
7 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) VMWare Administrator
7 7 (7.14%) Wintel Administrator
8 5 (5.10%) Network Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Industrial Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.29%) Flash
2 11 (11.22%) REST
3 10 (10.20%) SOAP
4 5 (5.10%) Spine.js
5 4 (4.08%) Middleware
6 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.02%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.57%) Clustering
2 20 (20.41%) Data Centre
3 15 (15.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (13.27%) PKI
5 10 (10.20%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (58.16%) Windows
2 56 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 43 (43.88%) Linux
4 19 (19.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (18.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (9.18%) Ubuntu
7 9 (9.18%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (7.14%) CentOS
9 5 (5.10%) Unix
10 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
11 2 (2.04%) VMS
12 1 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (1.02%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (41.84%) Agile
3 31 (31.63%) Service Management
4 29 (29.59%) Validation
5 28 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 28 (28.57%) System Testing
6 27 (27.55%) NsoIT
7 26 (26.53%) High Availability
8 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (18.37%) Waterfall
10 16 (16.33%) Power Management
11 14 (14.29%) Computer Science
12 13 (13.27%) Critical Thinking
12 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (12.24%) DevOps
14 11 (11.22%) Configuration Management
14 11 (11.22%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (10.20%) Migration
15 10 (10.20%) Reverse Engineering
16 9 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.82%) PowerShell
2 20 (20.41%) Python
3 12 (12.24%) Bash
4 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.06%) SQL
6 1 (1.02%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 72 (73.47%) Security Cleared
2 47 (47.96%) SC Cleared
3 38 (38.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 27 (27.55%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (27.55%) DV Cleared
5 25 (25.51%) Degree
6 17 (17.35%) CCNP
7 12 (12.24%) CCNA
7 12 (12.24%) Master's Degree
8 11 (11.22%) OCA
8 11 (11.22%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (10.20%) RHCA
9 10 (10.20%) RHCE
10 7 (7.14%) MCSE
11 4 (4.08%) VCAP
12 3 (3.06%) MCSA
13 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (81.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (57.14%) VMware ESXi
3 40 (40.82%) Active Directory
4 31 (31.63%) VMware NSX
5 29 (29.59%) vSphere
6 21 (21.43%) Hyper-V
7 13 (13.27%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (10.20%) BitLocker
8 10 (10.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (10.20%) Terminal Services
9 9 (9.18%) Docker
10 1 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (37.76%) Ansible
2 20 (20.41%) Puppet
3 17 (17.35%) Kubernetes
4 14 (14.29%) vMotion
5 13 (13.27%) Terraform
6 12 (12.24%) WSUS
7 10 (10.20%) Nagios
7 10 (10.20%) Progress Chef
8 8 (8.16%) Nessus
9 6 (6.12%) PowerCLI
9 6 (6.12%) vRealize
10 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (5.10%) SCCM
10 5 (5.10%) SCOM
10 5 (5.10%) VxRail
11 4 (4.08%) NetApp OnCommand
12 3 (3.06%) Backup Exec
12 3 (3.06%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (3.06%) Norton AntiVirus
13 1 (1.02%) Cloudify
Vendors
1 92 (93.88%) VMware
2 38 (38.78%) Microsoft
3 31 (31.63%) Cisco
4 20 (20.41%) Atlassian
5 17 (17.35%) Citrix
6 15 (15.31%) Symantec
7 11 (11.22%) Oracle
8 10 (10.20%) HP
9 9 (9.18%) Google
9 9 (9.18%) Red Hat
10 6 (6.12%) Dell
10 6 (6.12%) SolarWinds
10 6 (6.12%) Veeam
11 3 (3.06%) Juniper
12 2 (2.04%) McAfee
12 2 (2.04%) NETGEAR
12 2 (2.04%) TP-LINK
13 1 (1.02%) Infoblox
13 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
13 1 (1.02%) Veritas