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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 375 455
Rank change year-on-year -66 +80 +12
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 140 104 101
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.57% 2.65% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 81 65
10th Percentile £456 £400 £325
25th Percentile £485 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £569 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £668
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.05% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £46.40 £74.40 £65.18
25th Percentile £47.00 £88.50 £67.31
Median hourly rate £48.50 £112.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -56.70% +53.95% +64.41%
75th Percentile £49.50 - £76.31
90th Percentile £49.80 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £112.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -41.96% +65.93% +52.54%

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 5,438 3,925 4,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.74% 15.77% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,744 2,635 3,293
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £421 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 42 137
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.26 £21.05 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -18.46% -37.66%
75th Percentile £66.75 £67.38 £58.00
90th Percentile £75.76 £85.02 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +115.69% -21.54% -37.66%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -20 52 £509 -11.52% 13
North of England -51 37 £465 +6.19% 10
London -33 23 £535 +4.39% 15
North West -28 19 £456 +30.29% 2
Yorkshire -41 18 £504 +3.28% 8
South West -55 16 £538 -6.52% 6
East of England -25 6 £619 +12.50% 1
Midlands -53 4 £500 -9.09% 3
West Midlands -60 4 £500 -9.09% 2
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 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 21 (15.00%) Azure
2 21 (15.00%) IaaS
3 16 (11.43%) GitHub
4 15 (10.71%) PaaS
5 10 (7.14%) AWS
6 7 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.14%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.43%) GCP
9 2 (1.43%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.71%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.71%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 41 (29.29%) DNS
2 28 (20.00%) Firewall
3 19 (13.57%) Cisco IOS
4 15 (10.71%) VPN
5 13 (9.29%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (9.29%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (9.29%) Junos
5 13 (9.29%) VSAN
6 11 (7.86%) DHCP
7 9 (6.43%) VLAN
8 7 (5.00%) Network Security
8 7 (5.00%) SMTP
9 6 (4.29%) BGP
9 6 (4.29%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (4.29%) MPLS
9 6 (4.29%) NX-OS
9 6 (4.29%) TACACS
10 3 (2.14%) WAN
11 2 (1.43%) SSL
11 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.29%) DB2
2 6 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.14%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (15.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.43%) Finance
4 7 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.43%) Legal
7 1 (0.71%) Advertising
7 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.71%) Police
7 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (22.86%) Architect
2 28 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (17.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 18 (12.86%) VMware Engineer
5 15 (10.71%) Network Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.57%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 11 (7.86%) VMware Architect
8 10 (7.14%) Support Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) Senior
9 9 (6.43%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) Wintel Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Network Support
10 7 (5.00%) Network Support Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.86%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (4.29%) LDAP
3 4 (2.86%) Flash
4 2 (1.43%) REST
5 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.43%) PKI
2 19 (13.57%) Clustering
3 16 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (9.29%) Cloud Native
4 13 (9.29%) Replication
5 8 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (5.00%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (40.71%) Windows
2 45 (32.14%) Windows Server
3 41 (29.29%) Linux
4 8 (5.71%) VMS
5 7 (5.00%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.29%) AIX
6 6 (4.29%) Unix
6 6 (4.29%) Windows 10
6 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.71%) CentOS
9 1 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.71%) Solaris
9 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.29%) High Availability
2 32 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (22.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 31 (22.14%) Migration
4 30 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (17.14%) CI/CD
5 24 (17.14%) Containerisation
5 24 (17.14%) DevOps
6 21 (15.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 20 (14.29%) Agile
7 20 (14.29%) Load Balancing
8 18 (12.86%) ITSM
9 15 (10.71%) RBAC
10 14 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
10 14 (10.00%) Change Management
11 12 (8.57%) Service Management
12 11 (7.86%) Virtual Environments
13 10 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
14 9 (6.43%) Data Migration
14 9 (6.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 32 (22.86%) Python
3 27 (19.29%) Bash
4 7 (5.00%) SQL
5 4 (2.86%) PHP
6 1 (0.71%) Perl
6 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (62.14%) Security Cleared
2 47 (33.57%) DV Cleared
3 42 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 20 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (9.29%) VCAP
6 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.71%) MCSA
7 8 (5.71%) MCSE
8 7 (5.00%) Degree
9 4 (2.86%) APMG
9 4 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.86%) GIAC
9 4 (2.86%) SSCP
10 3 (2.14%) GSEC
11 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.43%) OCP
11 2 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) NIST
2 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 73 (52.14%) vSphere
3 60 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
4 53 (37.86%) VMware NSX
5 32 (22.86%) Active Directory
6 29 (20.71%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (12.14%) Hyper-V
8 14 (10.00%) Docker
9 11 (7.86%) KVM
10 8 (5.71%) vCloud
11 7 (5.00%) BitLocker
11 7 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (3.57%) Firmware
13 2 (1.43%) NFS
13 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.71%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.71%) UAG
Systems Management
1 48 (34.29%) Ansible
2 30 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 28 (20.00%) Terraform
4 23 (16.43%) Argo
5 11 (7.86%) Grafana
5 11 (7.86%) PowerCLI
6 10 (7.14%) SCOM
7 9 (6.43%) vMotion
8 8 (5.71%) VxRail
9 7 (5.00%) vRealize
10 6 (4.29%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (4.29%) Puppet
10 6 (4.29%) SCCM
11 5 (3.57%) NetBackup
12 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (2.14%) WSUS
13 2 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (1.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 116 (82.86%) VMware
2 36 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 35 (25.00%) Cisco
4 22 (15.71%) Pure Storage
4 22 (15.71%) Red Hat
5 15 (10.71%) SolarWinds
6 13 (9.29%) Dell
6 13 (9.29%) Juniper
7 12 (8.57%) Veeam
8 11 (7.86%) Splunk
9 9 (6.43%) Citrix
9 9 (6.43%) NetApp
10 8 (5.71%) Broadcom
11 6 (4.29%) IBM
12 4 (2.86%) Veritas
13 3 (2.14%) Google
14 2 (1.43%) Aruba
14 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
14 2 (1.43%) Wyse
14 2 (1.43%) Zerto