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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 421 438
Rank change year-on-year -34 +17 +62
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 175 93 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.42% 2.37% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 65 65
10th Percentile £420 £409 £340
25th Percentile £463 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £627 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £626 £608
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £59.61 £66.80 -
25th Percentile - £68.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -31.25% +126.17%
75th Percentile - £86.32 -
90th Percentile - £88.30 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £112.00
% change year-on-year -12.38% -31.25% +99.96%

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 5,110 3,916 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 14.02% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,398 2,579 2,671
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.60% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 73 53
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.01 £19.96
25th Percentile £32.87 £20.82 £24.18
Median hourly rate £67.00 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.06% -15.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.45 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £26.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year +144.15% -32.03% -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 26 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 26 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 +2.38% 21
London -71 31 £600 +15.38% 20
North of England -66 27 £484 +15.58% 3
Yorkshire -39 14 £522 +26.55% 1
North West -42 12 £480 +12.94% 2
East of England -28 10 £575 -7.63%
Midlands -41 6 £526 +3.69% 2
South West -52 6 £631 +13.74% 10
West Midlands -41 5 - - 1
East Midlands -15 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 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.43%) nginx
2 5 (2.86%) Apache
2 5 (2.86%) Confluence
3 4 (2.29%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.29%) Azure
2 12 (6.86%) AWS
3 10 (5.71%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.57%) IaaS
5 5 (2.86%) PaaS
6 4 (2.29%) GCP
7 3 (1.71%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.71%) GitHub
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.71%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.14%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.14%) Datadog
8 2 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.14%) OCI
9 1 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.57%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 64 (36.57%) DNS
2 41 (23.43%) VSAN
3 25 (14.29%) DHCP
4 22 (12.57%) Firewall
5 14 (8.00%) SAN
6 11 (6.29%) NAS
7 10 (5.71%) VLAN
7 10 (5.71%) VPN
8 6 (3.43%) LAN
8 6 (3.43%) WAN
9 5 (2.86%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.86%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.29%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.29%) SMTP
11 3 (1.71%) DMZ
11 3 (1.71%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (1.71%) Network Security
11 3 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.14%) Wireless
12 2 (1.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.71%) Big Data
3 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (2.86%) Bitbucket
1 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (1.71%) Git
3 2 (1.14%) GitLab
3 2 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 27 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (14.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.14%) Finance
6 2 (1.14%) Retail
7 1 (0.57%) Banking
7 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (20.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (18.29%) Support Engineer
3 30 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (15.43%) VMware Engineer
5 22 (12.57%) Senior
6 20 (11.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 18 (10.29%) Storage Engineer
8 15 (8.57%) Lead
9 12 (6.86%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Consultant
10 10 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) VMware Consultant
10 10 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Architect
12 8 (4.57%) Technical Leader
13 7 (4.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 6 (3.43%) Administrator
15 5 (2.86%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.43%) Terraform
2 4 (2.29%) REST
3 3 (1.71%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.57%) LDAP
4 1 (0.57%) OAuth
4 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.57%) OpenID
4 1 (0.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.00%) PKI
2 19 (10.86%) Data Centre
3 15 (8.57%) Clustering
4 13 (7.43%) Replication
5 11 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (6.29%) Public Cloud
6 9 (5.14%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.57%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (4.00%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.71%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.71%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.71%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 117 (66.86%) Windows
2 93 (53.14%) Windows Server
3 31 (17.71%) Linux
4 18 (10.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.43%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (3.43%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.71%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.57%) CentOS
9 1 (0.57%) Rocky
9 1 (0.57%) VMS
9 1 (0.57%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (25.14%) ITSM
3 42 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (22.86%) Technical Leadership
5 34 (19.43%) Change Management
6 30 (17.14%) High Availability
7 29 (16.57%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (16.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 25 (14.29%) Agile
9 25 (14.29%) ITIL
10 20 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (10.86%) Migration
12 18 (10.29%) Software Distribution
13 17 (9.71%) Service Delivery
14 16 (9.14%) Capacity Planning
14 16 (9.14%) Problem Management
14 16 (9.14%) Project Delivery
14 16 (9.14%) Service Management
15 15 (8.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 65 (37.14%) PowerShell
2 16 (9.14%) SQL
3 15 (8.57%) Python
4 6 (3.43%) Bash
5 4 (2.29%) Java
6 1 (0.57%) Bicep
6 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (73.71%) Security Cleared
2 84 (48.00%) DV Cleared
3 50 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 36 (20.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (14.29%) VCAP
6 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (8.00%) MCSA
8 11 (6.29%) MCSE
9 5 (2.86%) Degree
10 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.71%) CCA
10 3 (1.71%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.14%) NCDA
11 2 (1.14%) NCIE
12 1 (0.57%) OCP
12 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.43%) SLA
2 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) NCSC
4 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 143 (81.71%) VMware ESXi
2 139 (79.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (45.14%) VMware NSX
4 77 (44.00%) Active Directory
5 64 (36.57%) vSphere
6 25 (14.29%) vCloud
7 22 (12.57%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (5.14%) Hyper-V
9 7 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (2.86%) Firmware
10 5 (2.86%) UAG
11 4 (2.29%) BitLocker
11 4 (2.29%) Docker
11 4 (2.29%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (1.71%) NFS
12 3 (1.71%) Terminal Services
13 2 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (1.14%) SRDF
14 1 (0.57%) Samba
14 1 (0.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (30.86%) SCOM
2 33 (18.86%) Ansible
3 27 (15.43%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.57%) Avamar
5 12 (6.86%) vMotion
6 8 (4.57%) PowerCLI
6 8 (4.57%) vRealize
7 7 (4.00%) Puppet
7 7 (4.00%) SCCM
8 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.86%) Packer
9 4 (2.29%) Dell DRAC
9 4 (2.29%) Nagios
9 4 (2.29%) Nessus
9 4 (2.29%) NetBackup
9 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.29%) VxRail
10 3 (1.71%) Argo
10 3 (1.71%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.71%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 175 (100.00%) VMware
2 48 (27.43%) Microsoft
3 25 (14.29%) Dell
4 21 (12.00%) Cisco
5 19 (10.86%) Broadcom
6 18 (10.29%) SolarWinds
7 14 (8.00%) Thales
8 12 (6.86%) Citrix
8 12 (6.86%) Veeam
9 11 (6.29%) NetApp
10 9 (5.14%) ServiceNow
11 7 (4.00%) EMC
12 6 (3.43%) Remedy
12 6 (3.43%) Tenable
13 5 (2.86%) Tanium
14 4 (2.29%) Google
14 4 (2.29%) HP
14 4 (2.29%) Pure Storage
14 4 (2.29%) Red Hat
14 4 (2.29%) Symantec