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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 418 485
Rank change year-on-year +27 +67 +105
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 101 127 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.44% 2.69% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 89 101
10th Percentile £425 £324 £388
25th Percentile £513 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £591 £608 £588
90th Percentile £661 £615 £654
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 26
10th Percentile - £65.18 £26.63
25th Percentile - £67.31 £29.30
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +71.18% -26.09%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £49.52
90th Percentile - £77.33 £82.50
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +71.18% -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 4,145 4,718 7,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.63% 12.66% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,754 3,387 5,229
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -1.54% -5.82% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 95 165
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.47 £19.10
25th Percentile £26.45 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.97% -42.73% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £84.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -43.48% +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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +28 29 £575 +9.52% 11
North of England +16 24 £400 +20.30% 18
South East +15 21 £575 -4.96% 19
London +45 19 £525 -12.50% 35
Yorkshire +13 12 £488 +47.73% 9
North West +6 12 £350 -22.22% 9
East of England +31 6 £550 - 5
Midlands -4 3 £550 +37.50% 7
West Midlands -6 2 £458 +14.38% 4
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 3
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 (19.80%) Confluence
2 15 (14.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.96%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.99%) Anypoint
Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.86%) AWS
2 13 (12.87%) Azure
3 10 (9.90%) GCP
3 10 (9.90%) OpenShift
4 9 (8.91%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.91%) IaaS
4 9 (8.91%) PaaS
5 8 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.94%) GitHub
7 4 (3.96%) Nutanix
7 4 (3.96%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.99%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.99%) Serverless
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (23.76%) DNS
2 23 (22.77%) Firewall
3 19 (18.81%) VSAN
4 15 (14.85%) DHCP
5 12 (11.88%) SAN
6 10 (9.90%) SMTP
6 10 (9.90%) VPN
7 7 (6.93%) Network Security
8 6 (5.94%) BGP
8 6 (5.94%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (5.94%) OSPF
8 6 (5.94%) VXLAN
9 5 (4.95%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (4.95%) DMVPN
9 5 (4.95%) NAS
10 4 (3.96%) LAN
11 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
11 3 (2.97%) WLAN
12 2 (1.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (1.98%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.90%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.91%) Big Data
2 9 (8.91%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) JIRA
2 18 (17.82%) Git
2 18 (17.82%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.89%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.95%) GitLab
5 3 (2.97%) Subversion
6 2 (1.98%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.98%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (22.77%) Public Sector
2 19 (18.81%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Finance
4 4 (3.96%) Legal
5 2 (1.98%) Banking
5 2 (1.98%) Electronics
5 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.98%) Marketing
5 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (35.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (16.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 16 (15.84%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 13 (12.87%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (10.89%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) 3rd Line Support
6 9 (8.91%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.93%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Senior
8 5 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) VMware Specialist
9 4 (3.96%) Cisco Engineer
10 3 (2.97%) ETL Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (2.97%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) REST
2 11 (10.89%) Flash
3 10 (9.90%) SOAP
4 5 (4.95%) Middleware
4 5 (4.95%) Spine.js
5 3 (2.97%) RESTful
6 2 (1.98%) JSON
6 2 (1.98%) Node.js
6 2 (1.98%) pytest
6 2 (1.98%) XML
7 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.73%) Clustering
2 17 (16.83%) Data Centre
3 12 (11.88%) PKI
4 9 (8.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.97%) Blog
6 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.98%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.98%) Replication
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (49.50%) Windows
2 47 (46.53%) Windows Server
3 42 (41.58%) Linux
4 14 (13.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (8.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (6.93%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (3.96%) Unix
9 3 (2.97%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.98%) VMS
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.99%) CentOS
11 1 (0.99%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (47.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (32.67%) Agile
3 29 (28.71%) Validation
4 28 (27.72%) Service Management
5 27 (26.73%) Network Virtualisation
6 25 (24.75%) System Testing
7 24 (23.76%) High Availability
7 24 (23.76%) NsoIT
8 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (15.84%) Waterfall
10 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (13.86%) DevOps
12 13 (12.87%) Power Management
13 12 (11.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (10.89%) Computer Science
14 11 (10.89%) Configuration Management
14 11 (10.89%) Critical Thinking
14 11 (10.89%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (10.89%) Reverse Engineering
15 10 (9.90%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 36 (35.64%) PowerShell
2 29 (28.71%) Python
3 10 (9.90%) Bash
4 7 (6.93%) SQL
5 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.97%) C++
6 3 (2.97%) Go
6 3 (2.97%) Java
6 3 (2.97%) PHP
7 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (56.44%) Security Cleared
2 38 (37.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 37 (36.63%) SC Cleared
4 27 (26.73%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (20.79%) Degree
5 21 (20.79%) DV Cleared
6 18 (17.82%) CCNP
7 12 (11.88%) CCNA
8 11 (10.89%) OCA
8 11 (10.89%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (9.90%) RHCA
9 10 (9.90%) RHCE
10 9 (8.91%) Master's Degree
11 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (5.94%) VCAP
13 5 (4.95%) MCSE
14 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
15 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.98%) SLA
2 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (78.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (62.38%) VMware ESXi
3 38 (37.62%) Active Directory
4 31 (30.69%) VMware NSX
5 25 (24.75%) vSphere
6 18 (17.82%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (16.83%) Hyper-V
8 10 (9.90%) BitLocker
8 10 (9.90%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (9.90%) Terminal Services
9 9 (8.91%) Docker
10 3 (2.97%) Firmware
11 1 (0.99%) KVM
Systems Management
1 36 (35.64%) Ansible
2 22 (21.78%) Puppet
3 14 (13.86%) vMotion
4 11 (10.89%) Kubernetes
4 11 (10.89%) Terraform
5 10 (9.90%) PowerCLI
5 10 (9.90%) Progress Chef
5 10 (9.90%) WSUS
6 9 (8.91%) Nagios
7 6 (5.94%) vRealize
8 5 (4.95%) SCCM
8 5 (4.95%) VxRail
9 4 (3.96%) SCOM
10 3 (2.97%) Backup Exec
10 3 (2.97%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (2.97%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (1.98%) Control-M
11 2 (1.98%) NetApp OnCommand
12 1 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 95 (94.06%) VMware
2 34 (33.66%) Microsoft
3 33 (32.67%) Cisco
4 22 (21.78%) Citrix
5 17 (16.83%) Atlassian
6 15 (14.85%) Symantec
7 11 (10.89%) Oracle
8 10 (9.90%) HP
9 9 (8.91%) Google
10 7 (6.93%) Veeam
11 6 (5.94%) Dell
11 6 (5.94%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.98%) Broadcom
12 2 (1.98%) EMC
12 2 (1.98%) F5
12 2 (1.98%) IBM
12 2 (1.98%) Juniper
12 2 (1.98%) McAfee
12 2 (1.98%) NETGEAR
12 2 (1.98%) SAP