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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 414 434
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 +63
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 187 95 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.72% 2.49% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 67 65
10th Percentile £380 £410 £325
25th Percentile £463 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +0.48%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £620 £608
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £59.61 £66.80 -
25th Percentile - £68.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% - -
75th Percentile - £86.32 -
90th Percentile - £88.30 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 -
% change year-on-year -12.38% - -

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 5,029 3,822 3,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.93% 13.87% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,523 2,713
10th Percentile £308 £281 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £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 £699 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 64 52
10th Percentile £21.32 £18.87 £20.05
25th Percentile £38.03 £21.39 £24.09
Median hourly rate £67.47 £37.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +78.73% -3.82% -25.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.13 £63.00
90th Percentile £90.25 £78.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £28.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year +130.09% -26.14% -30.45%

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 14 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
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 14 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 +5 93 £538 -2.27% 21
London -68 35 £550 +5.77% 17
North of England -64 34 £485 +15.82% 4
North West -46 17 £483 +13.65% 3
Yorkshire -30 16 £519 +25.82% 1
East of England -23 11 £545 -12.45% 1
Midlands -42 7 £545 +7.32% 2
West Midlands -41 6 £563 +54.25% 1
South West -57 6 £631 +13.74% 7
East Midlands -16 1 £526 -19.04% 1
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 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.21%) nginx
2 5 (2.67%) Apache
2 5 (2.67%) Confluence
3 4 (2.14%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.76%) Azure
2 14 (7.49%) AWS
3 12 (6.42%) OpenShift
4 9 (4.81%) IaaS
5 7 (3.74%) GitHub
6 6 (3.21%) PaaS
7 4 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (2.14%) Azure Stack
7 4 (2.14%) GCP
8 3 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.60%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.07%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.07%) Datadog
9 2 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.07%) OCI
10 1 (0.53%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 66 (35.29%) DNS
2 49 (26.20%) VSAN
3 24 (12.83%) DHCP
3 24 (12.83%) Firewall
4 16 (8.56%) SAN
5 14 (7.49%) VLAN
6 13 (6.95%) NAS
7 11 (5.88%) VPN
8 7 (3.74%) Network Security
9 5 (2.67%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.67%) LAN
9 5 (2.67%) WAN
10 4 (2.14%) SMTP
11 3 (1.60%) DMZ
11 3 (1.60%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.60%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.07%) Wireless
12 2 (1.07%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.60%) Big Data
3 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.28%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (2.67%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.67%) JIRA
3 2 (1.07%) Git
3 2 (1.07%) GitLab
3 2 (1.07%) Subversion
General
1 30 (16.04%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (2.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.07%) Finance
6 2 (1.07%) Retail
7 1 (0.53%) Advertising
7 1 (0.53%) Banking
7 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (19.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (16.58%) VMware Engineer
3 30 (16.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 30 (16.04%) Support Engineer
4 22 (11.76%) Senior
5 18 (9.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 18 (9.63%) Lead
6 17 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
7 13 (6.95%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 10 (5.35%) Architect
8 10 (5.35%) Consultant
8 10 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.35%) VMware Consultant
8 10 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Technical Leader
11 6 (3.21%) Administrator
11 6 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.58%) Terraform
2 4 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (2.14%) REST
3 3 (1.60%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.53%) LDAP
4 1 (0.53%) OAuth
4 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.53%) OpenID
4 1 (0.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.70%) PKI
2 19 (10.16%) Clustering
2 19 (10.16%) Replication
3 17 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 16 (8.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.35%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.81%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.28%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (3.74%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.74%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.60%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.60%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.60%) EMC VNX
11 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 120 (64.17%) Windows
2 93 (49.73%) Windows Server
3 38 (20.32%) Linux
4 17 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (5.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.21%) Data ONTAP
6 6 (3.21%) VMS
6 6 (3.21%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.14%) SUSE
8 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.07%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.53%) CentOS
10 1 (0.53%) Rocky
10 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (22.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (21.93%) ITSM
4 39 (20.86%) Technical Leadership
5 37 (19.79%) High Availability
6 35 (18.72%) Change Management
6 35 (18.72%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (15.51%) Network Virtualisation
8 27 (14.44%) Migration
9 26 (13.90%) ITIL
10 24 (12.83%) Agile
11 20 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (10.70%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (9.63%) Capacity Planning
12 18 (9.63%) DevOps
12 18 (9.63%) Load Balancing
12 18 (9.63%) Software Distribution
13 16 (8.56%) Service Delivery
13 16 (8.56%) Service Management
14 15 (8.02%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 20 (10.70%) Python
3 16 (8.56%) SQL
4 12 (6.42%) Bash
5 3 (1.60%) Java
6 1 (0.53%) Bicep
6 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (71.12%) Security Cleared
2 86 (45.99%) DV Cleared
3 50 (26.74%) SC Cleared
4 39 (20.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 28 (14.97%) VCAP
6 18 (9.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (7.49%) MCSA
8 11 (5.88%) MCSE
9 6 (3.21%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.67%) Degree
11 4 (2.14%) OCP
11 4 (2.14%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.60%) CCA
12 3 (1.60%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.07%) NCDA
13 2 (1.07%) NCIE
14 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.28%) SLA
2 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.07%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) NCSC
4 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 151 (80.75%) VMware ESXi
2 146 (78.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (46.52%) VMware NSX
4 77 (41.18%) vSphere
5 74 (39.57%) Active Directory
6 28 (14.97%) Virtual Machines
7 26 (13.90%) vCloud
8 13 (6.95%) Hyper-V
9 8 (4.28%) Firmware
10 7 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (2.67%) UAG
12 4 (2.14%) BitLocker
12 4 (2.14%) Docker
12 4 (2.14%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (1.60%) NFS
13 3 (1.60%) Terminal Services
14 2 (1.07%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (1.07%) SRDF
15 1 (0.53%) Samba
Systems Management
1 52 (27.81%) SCOM
2 38 (20.32%) Ansible
3 31 (16.58%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.02%) vMotion
5 14 (7.49%) Avamar
6 11 (5.88%) PowerCLI
7 10 (5.35%) vRealize
8 8 (4.28%) VxRail
9 7 (3.74%) Argo
9 7 (3.74%) Grafana
9 7 (3.74%) Puppet
9 7 (3.74%) SCCM
10 5 (2.67%) Packer
11 4 (2.14%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (2.14%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.14%) Nessus
11 4 (2.14%) NetBackup
11 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 187 (100.00%) VMware
2 46 (24.60%) Microsoft
3 28 (14.97%) Dell
4 21 (11.23%) Cisco
5 20 (10.70%) Broadcom
6 17 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 13 (6.95%) Thales
7 13 (6.95%) Veeam
8 11 (5.88%) Citrix
8 11 (5.88%) NetApp
9 9 (4.81%) ServiceNow
10 8 (4.28%) Pure Storage
10 8 (4.28%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.74%) EMC
12 6 (3.21%) Remedy
12 6 (3.21%) Tenable
13 5 (2.67%) Splunk
13 5 (2.67%) Tanium
14 4 (2.14%) HP
14 4 (2.14%) SaltStack