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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 391 418
Rank change year-on-year -31 +27 +67
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 187 101 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.16% 2.44% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 76 89
10th Percentile £411 £425 £324
25th Percentile £463 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £593 £591 £608
90th Percentile £650 £661 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £46.80 - £65.18
25th Percentile £48.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £56.55 - £76.31
90th Percentile £60.48 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +71.18%

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 5,927 4,144 4,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 15.63% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 2,753 3,387
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £416 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +0.98% -1.54% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 46 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £16.47
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.29
Median hourly rate £62.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% +53.97% -42.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +84.17% -7.69% -43.48%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -15 62 £575 - 13
North of England -41 56 £483 +20.75% 1
London -61 35 £500 -4.76% 9
North West -23 31 £466 +33.14%
Yorkshire -42 24 £511 +4.72%
South West -38 14 £536 -6.74% 5
East of England -25 11 £563 +2.27% 1
Midlands -52 9 £532 -3.36% 1
West Midlands -55 9 £532 +16.17% 1
North East - 1 £500 - 1
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 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.07%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.97%) OpenShift
2 20 (10.70%) Azure
2 20 (10.70%) GitHub
3 17 (9.09%) IaaS
4 15 (8.02%) PaaS
5 10 (5.35%) AWS
6 6 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.67%) GCP
8 4 (2.14%) Azure Stack
8 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.60%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.07%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.07%) Datadog
10 2 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.53%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.53%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 56 (29.95%) DNS
2 35 (18.72%) VSAN
3 23 (12.30%) Firewall
4 21 (11.23%) VPN
5 19 (10.16%) DHCP
6 13 (6.95%) Network Security
7 12 (6.42%) SAN
8 11 (5.88%) VLAN
9 10 (5.35%) NAS
10 9 (4.81%) SMTP
11 6 (3.21%) BGP
11 6 (3.21%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (3.21%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (3.21%) MPLS
11 6 (3.21%) TACACS
12 3 (1.60%) DMZ
12 3 (1.60%) LAN
12 3 (1.60%) NetScaler
12 3 (1.60%) WAN
12 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.21%) Db2
4 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.60%) Big Data
5 3 (1.60%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (11.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.07%) Git
2 2 (1.07%) GitLab
2 2 (1.07%) JIRA
2 2 (1.07%) Subversion
3 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 40 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.35%) Finance
3 10 (5.35%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.14%) Banking
7 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.07%) Advertising
8 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (21.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (16.58%) VMware Engineer
3 22 (11.76%) Architect
4 21 (11.23%) Support Engineer
5 20 (10.70%) Storage Engineer
6 19 (10.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 18 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) Senior
9 14 (7.49%) Wintel Engineer
10 12 (6.42%) Lead
11 11 (5.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 10 (5.35%) Consultant
12 10 (5.35%) VMware Consultant
13 9 (4.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.81%) VMware Architect
13 9 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (4.28%) Virtualisation Engineer
15 7 (3.74%) Security Engineer
15 7 (3.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 6 (3.21%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.42%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.74%) LDAP
3 3 (1.60%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.60%) Flash
3 3 (1.60%) REST
4 1 (0.53%) OAuth
4 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.53%) OpenID
4 1 (0.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.04%) Clustering
2 28 (14.97%) PKI
3 25 (13.37%) Replication
4 18 (9.63%) Cloud Native
5 17 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (8.02%) Data Centre
7 12 (6.42%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (5.35%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
9 6 (3.21%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.60%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.60%) EMC VNX
12 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 97 (51.87%) Windows
2 78 (41.71%) Windows Server
3 46 (24.60%) Linux
4 8 (4.28%) Ubuntu
4 8 (4.28%) VMS
5 7 (3.74%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.74%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.21%) AIX
6 6 (3.21%) Unix
7 4 (2.14%) SUSE
8 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Rocky
9 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.34%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (27.81%) High Availability
3 47 (25.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (20.32%) Migration
6 31 (16.58%) Network Virtualisation
7 26 (13.90%) DevOps
8 25 (13.37%) Capacity Planning
8 25 (13.37%) Change Management
9 24 (12.83%) CI/CD
9 24 (12.83%) ITSM
10 23 (12.30%) Load Balancing
11 21 (11.23%) Containerisation
12 18 (9.63%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (9.09%) Agile
14 16 (8.56%) Project Delivery
14 16 (8.56%) RBAC
15 15 (8.02%) Data Migration
15 15 (8.02%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (35.83%) PowerShell
2 35 (18.72%) Python
3 29 (15.51%) Bash
4 20 (10.70%) SQL
5 4 (2.14%) PHP
6 3 (1.60%) Java
Qualifications
1 119 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 69 (36.90%) DV Cleared
3 54 (28.88%) SC Cleared
4 41 (21.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (13.90%) VCAP
6 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (8.56%) MCSA
8 15 (8.02%) MCSE
9 11 (5.88%) Degree
10 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.21%) OCP
10 6 (3.21%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (2.14%) APMG
11 4 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.14%) GIAC
11 4 (2.14%) SSCP
12 3 (1.60%) CCA
12 3 (1.60%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (1.60%) GSEC
13 2 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.35%) SLA
2 9 (4.81%) NIST
3 7 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.07%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 138 (73.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 129 (68.98%) VMware ESXi
3 92 (49.20%) vSphere
4 81 (43.32%) VMware NSX
5 51 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 36 (19.25%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (14.97%) Hyper-V
8 21 (11.23%) vCloud
9 10 (5.35%) KVM
10 9 (4.81%) BitLocker
10 9 (4.81%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (4.28%) Docker
12 5 (2.67%) UAG
12 5 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (2.14%) Terminal Services
14 3 (1.60%) Firmware
14 3 (1.60%) NFS
15 2 (1.07%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (1.07%) SRDF
16 1 (0.53%) Samba
Systems Management
1 57 (30.48%) Ansible
2 40 (21.39%) Kubernetes
3 33 (17.65%) SCOM
4 28 (14.97%) Terraform
5 20 (10.70%) Argo
6 15 (8.02%) Grafana
6 15 (8.02%) PowerCLI
6 15 (8.02%) vMotion
6 15 (8.02%) vRealize
7 11 (5.88%) Puppet
8 10 (5.35%) Avamar
9 9 (4.81%) NetBackup
10 8 (4.28%) VxRail
11 6 (3.21%) IBM BigFix
11 6 (3.21%) SCCM
12 4 (2.14%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (2.14%) Nagios
12 4 (2.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 180 (96.26%) VMware
2 51 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 31 (16.58%) Cisco
4 22 (11.76%) Dell
5 21 (11.23%) Pure Storage
6 17 (9.09%) NetApp
7 16 (8.56%) Citrix
7 16 (8.56%) Red Hat
8 14 (7.49%) Veeam
9 12 (6.42%) Broadcom
9 12 (6.42%) Splunk
10 10 (5.35%) Thales
11 9 (4.81%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.21%) IBM
12 6 (3.21%) Tenable
13 5 (2.67%) EMC
13 5 (2.67%) Google
13 5 (2.67%) Symantec
14 4 (2.14%) Remedy
14 4 (2.14%) ServiceNow