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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 381 420
Rank change year-on-year -46 +39 +31
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 174 94 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.12% 2.49% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 75 86
10th Percentile £424 £360 £319
25th Percentile £465 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £591 £590 £608
90th Percentile £684 £657 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £46.40 - £65.18
25th Percentile £47.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £72.75
75th Percentile £49.50 - £76.31
90th Percentile £49.80 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +64.41%

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 5,585 3,776 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.78% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,842 2,588 3,287
10th Percentile £315 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -0.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £515
% change year-on-year -3.10% +0.19% -6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 37 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.56 £21.39 £18.34
Median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% +6.42% -47.91%
75th Percentile £69.69 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +94.69% -5.83% -45.45%

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 29 May 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
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 29 May 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 -12 59 £564 -1.96% 11
North of England -39 59 £483 +37.86% 2
North West -13 35 £465 +32.74% 1
London -60 25 £500 -4.76% 3
Yorkshire -40 24 £511 +4.72% 1
South West -50 14 £536 -6.74% 1
East of England -24 9 £569 +3.41% 2
Midlands -52 7 £532 -3.36%
West Midlands -54 7 £532 -3.36%
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 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.37%) OpenShift
2 21 (12.07%) Azure
3 20 (11.49%) GitHub
4 19 (10.92%) IaaS
5 17 (9.77%) PaaS
6 8 (4.60%) AWS
7 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.30%) Azure Stack
8 4 (2.30%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.72%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.15%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.15%) Datadog
10 2 (1.15%) GCP
10 2 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.57%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 41 (23.56%) DNS
2 31 (17.82%) VSAN
3 23 (13.22%) Firewall
4 17 (9.77%) VPN
5 13 (7.47%) VLAN
6 12 (6.90%) DHCP
7 11 (6.32%) NAS
7 11 (6.32%) Network Security
7 11 (6.32%) SAN
8 8 (4.60%) SMTP
9 7 (4.02%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (3.45%) BGP
10 6 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (3.45%) MPLS
10 6 (3.45%) TACACS
11 2 (1.15%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.15%) LAN
11 2 (1.15%) NX-OS
11 2 (1.15%) WAN
12 1 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (4.02%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.45%) DB2
3 3 (1.72%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.15%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) JIRA
General
1 32 (18.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.32%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.17%) Finance
4 6 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.30%) Banking
7 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.15%) Advertising
8 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (20.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (17.82%) VMware Engineer
3 28 (16.09%) Architect
4 19 (10.92%) Storage Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) Wintel Engineer
6 15 (8.62%) Senior
7 12 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.90%) VMware Architect
8 11 (6.32%) Lead
8 11 (6.32%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 11 (6.32%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) NetApp Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Consultant
11 6 (3.45%) Technical Specialist
11 6 (3.45%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (4.02%) LDAP
3 3 (1.72%) Flash
3 3 (1.72%) REST
4 1 (0.57%) OAuth
4 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.57%) OpenID
4 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.97%) Clustering
2 29 (16.67%) Replication
3 23 (13.22%) PKI
4 18 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 18 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (7.47%) Enterprise Storage
6 12 (6.90%) Data Centre
7 10 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.45%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.72%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.72%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (44.83%) Windows
2 63 (36.21%) Windows Server
3 40 (22.99%) Linux
4 9 (5.17%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.60%) VMS
5 8 (4.60%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (4.02%) Data ONTAP
6 7 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (3.45%) AIX
7 6 (3.45%) Unix
8 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.30%) SUSE
10 1 (0.57%) CentOS
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.31%) High Availability
2 48 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
3 44 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (21.26%) Migration
6 35 (20.11%) Network Virtualisation
7 28 (16.09%) Capacity Planning
8 23 (13.22%) Change Management
9 22 (12.64%) CI/CD
9 22 (12.64%) DevOps
10 21 (12.07%) Load Balancing
11 20 (11.49%) Agile
11 20 (11.49%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.77%) ITSM
12 17 (9.77%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (9.20%) Project Delivery
13 16 (9.20%) RBAC
14 15 (8.62%) Data Migration
15 14 (8.05%) Performance Optimisation
16 11 (6.32%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 61 (35.06%) PowerShell
2 31 (17.82%) Python
3 26 (14.94%) Bash
4 15 (8.62%) SQL
5 4 (2.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 110 (63.22%) Security Cleared
2 61 (35.06%) DV Cleared
3 51 (29.31%) SC Cleared
4 41 (23.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 29 (16.67%) VCAP
6 20 (11.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (9.77%) MCSA
8 16 (9.20%) MCSE
9 8 (4.60%) Degree
10 6 (3.45%) OCP
10 6 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.30%) APMG
12 4 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.30%) GIAC
12 4 (2.30%) SSCP
13 3 (1.72%) GSEC
14 2 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (1.15%) NCDA
14 2 (1.15%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) NIST
1 9 (5.17%) SLA
2 6 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.15%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (67.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 110 (63.22%) VMware ESXi
3 96 (55.17%) vSphere
4 65 (37.36%) VMware NSX
5 39 (22.41%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (18.39%) Active Directory
7 25 (14.37%) Hyper-V
8 18 (10.34%) vCloud
9 11 (6.32%) KVM
10 8 (4.60%) BitLocker
10 8 (4.60%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (4.02%) Docker
12 4 (2.30%) Firmware
13 3 (1.72%) UAG
14 2 (1.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (1.15%) NFS
14 2 (1.15%) SRDF
15 1 (0.57%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (31.61%) Ansible
2 37 (21.26%) Kubernetes
3 23 (13.22%) Terraform
4 21 (12.07%) SCOM
5 20 (11.49%) Argo
6 15 (8.62%) Grafana
6 15 (8.62%) PowerCLI
7 13 (7.47%) vRealize
8 12 (6.90%) vMotion
9 11 (6.32%) VxRail
10 8 (4.60%) NetBackup
11 7 (4.02%) Avamar
11 7 (4.02%) Puppet
12 6 (3.45%) IBM BigFix
13 4 (2.30%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (1.72%) EMC VPLEX
14 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
14 3 (1.72%) SnapMirror
14 3 (1.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 161 (92.53%) VMware
2 50 (28.74%) Microsoft
3 33 (18.97%) Cisco
4 23 (13.22%) Dell
5 21 (12.07%) Pure Storage
6 19 (10.92%) Red Hat
7 16 (9.20%) NetApp
7 16 (9.20%) Veeam
8 12 (6.90%) Splunk
9 11 (6.32%) Broadcom
10 9 (5.17%) Citrix
11 7 (4.02%) Thales
12 6 (3.45%) IBM
13 4 (2.30%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.30%) Veritas
13 4 (2.30%) Zerto
14 3 (1.72%) 3PAR
14 3 (1.72%) Brocade
14 3 (1.72%) EMC
15 2 (1.15%) Google