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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 409 435
Rank change year-on-year -36 +26 +57
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 192 105 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.83% 2.76% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 76 70
10th Percentile £380 £409 £323
25th Percentile £463 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +8.37% -2.40%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £608
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £48.40 £66.80 -
25th Percentile £52.18 £68.38 £63.75
Median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +14.07% +46.71%
75th Percentile - £86.32 £71.25
90th Percentile - £88.30 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.38% +14.07% +36.31%

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 5,016 3,805 3,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 13.80% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,362 2,522 2,775
10th Percentile £306 £281 £300
25th Percentile £415 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £710
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.47% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 59 59
10th Percentile £21.33 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £24.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £47.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.05% +26.67% -24.59%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.04 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.59 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +114.13% -20.00% -30.23%

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 1 September 2026.

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 1 September 2026.

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 1 September 2026. 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 -1 91 £575 +4.55% 12
London -60 37 £500 -3.85% 21
North of England -59 35 £484 +13.88% 6
North West -48 19 £482 +24.26% 5
Yorkshire -35 15 £519 +16.11% 1
East of England -19 11 £545 -0.91% 2
South West -49 10 £613 +9.62% 11
Midlands -50 7 £545 -0.98% 3
West Midlands -45 6 £563 +23.06% 1
East Midlands -14 1 £526 -19.04% 2
North East - 1 £500 -
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 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.13%) nginx
3 5 (2.60%) Apache
3 5 (2.60%) Confluence
4 4 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.98%) Azure
2 13 (6.77%) AWS
3 11 (5.73%) IaaS
3 11 (5.73%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.17%) GitHub
4 8 (4.17%) PaaS
5 5 (2.60%) GCP
6 4 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.08%) Azure Stack
6 4 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.56%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.04%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.04%) Datadog
8 2 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.04%) OCI
9 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 66 (34.38%) DNS
2 49 (25.52%) VSAN
3 25 (13.02%) DHCP
3 25 (13.02%) Firewall
4 16 (8.33%) SAN
5 13 (6.77%) NAS
5 13 (6.77%) VLAN
6 12 (6.25%) VPN
7 7 (3.65%) Network Security
8 6 (3.13%) SMTP
9 5 (2.60%) iSCSI
10 4 (2.08%) LAN
10 4 (2.08%) WAN
11 3 (1.56%) DMZ
11 3 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.56%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
12 2 (1.04%) WLAN
13 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.56%) Big Data
3 3 (1.56%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.60%) JIRA
3 2 (1.04%) Git
3 2 (1.04%) GitLab
3 2 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 32 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.04%) Finance
6 2 (1.04%) Retail
7 1 (0.52%) Advertising
7 1 (0.52%) Banking
7 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (21.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
3 29 (15.10%) Support Engineer
4 28 (14.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (11.98%) Senior
6 20 (10.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 18 (9.38%) Lead
7 18 (9.38%) Storage Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 12 (6.25%) Architect
9 12 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Consultant
10 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) VMware Consultant
11 9 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.69%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Technical Leader
12 8 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.63%) Terraform
2 5 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (2.08%) REST
4 3 (1.56%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.52%) LDAP
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.52%) OpenID
5 1 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) PKI
2 21 (10.94%) Clustering
3 20 (10.42%) Replication
4 18 (9.38%) Data Centre
5 17 (8.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (5.21%) Public Cloud
7 9 (4.69%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (4.69%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.17%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.65%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.56%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.56%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.56%) EMC VNX
12 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 119 (61.98%) Windows
2 94 (48.96%) Windows Server
3 37 (19.27%) Linux
4 15 (7.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.65%) VMS
7 6 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
7 6 (3.13%) Windows 10
8 4 (2.08%) SUSE
8 4 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.52%) Rocky
10 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (24.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (20.31%) ITSM
4 38 (19.79%) High Availability
5 37 (19.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 37 (19.27%) Technical Leadership
6 35 (18.23%) Change Management
7 27 (14.06%) Migration
7 27 (14.06%) Network Virtualisation
8 24 (12.50%) ITIL
9 23 (11.98%) Agile
10 20 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (9.90%) DevOps
11 19 (9.90%) Load Balancing
12 18 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
12 18 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (9.38%) Software Distribution
13 16 (8.33%) CI/CD
13 16 (8.33%) Service Management
14 15 (7.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.42%) PowerShell
2 20 (10.42%) Python
3 16 (8.33%) SQL
4 13 (6.77%) Bash
5 3 (1.56%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 134 (69.79%) Security Cleared
2 86 (44.79%) DV Cleared
3 50 (26.04%) SC Cleared
4 40 (20.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 29 (15.10%) VCAP
6 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (7.29%) MCSA
8 11 (5.73%) MCSE
9 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.13%) Degree
10 4 (2.08%) OCP
10 4 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.56%) CCA
11 3 (1.56%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.04%) NCDA
12 2 (1.04%) NCIE
13 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.69%) SLA
2 3 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 155 (80.73%) VMware ESXi
2 148 (77.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 93 (48.44%) VMware NSX
4 82 (42.71%) vSphere
5 72 (37.50%) Active Directory
6 27 (14.06%) vCloud
7 26 (13.54%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (8.33%) Hyper-V
9 8 (4.17%) Firmware
10 7 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (3.13%) BitLocker
11 6 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (2.60%) Docker
12 5 (2.60%) UAG
13 4 (2.08%) Terminal Services
14 3 (1.56%) NFS
15 2 (1.04%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (1.04%) SRDF
16 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 50 (26.04%) SCOM
2 39 (20.31%) Ansible
3 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
4 17 (8.85%) vMotion
5 14 (7.29%) Avamar
5 14 (7.29%) vRealize
6 11 (5.73%) PowerCLI
7 8 (4.17%) Argo
7 8 (4.17%) Grafana
7 8 (4.17%) NetBackup
7 8 (4.17%) Puppet
7 8 (4.17%) VxRail
8 7 (3.65%) SCCM
9 5 (2.60%) Packer
10 4 (2.08%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.08%) Nessus
10 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 192 (100.00%) VMware
2 47 (24.48%) Microsoft
3 29 (15.10%) Dell
4 21 (10.94%) Cisco
5 18 (9.38%) Broadcom
6 15 (7.81%) SolarWinds
7 13 (6.77%) Citrix
7 13 (6.77%) NetApp
7 13 (6.77%) Thales
7 13 (6.77%) Veeam
8 10 (5.21%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.69%) Pure Storage
9 9 (4.69%) ServiceNow
10 7 (3.65%) EMC
11 6 (3.13%) Remedy
11 6 (3.13%) Splunk
11 6 (3.13%) Tenable
12 5 (2.60%) HP
12 5 (2.60%) Symantec
12 5 (2.60%) Tanium