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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 389 423
Rank change year-on-year -25 +34 +34
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 178 95 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.19% 2.49% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 75 83
10th Percentile £423 £360 £321
25th Percentile £463 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.57%
75th Percentile £589 £590 £608
90th Percentile £650 £657 £635
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £46.40 - £65.18
25th Percentile £47.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £72.75
75th Percentile £49.50 - £76.31
90th Percentile £49.80 - £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 5,572 3,818 4,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.85% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 2,597 3,299
10th Percentile £319 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £501 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.34% -0.49% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 38 90
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.22 £21.39 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £50.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.89 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +89.66% -3.33% -47.83%

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 June 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 June 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 -23 63 £563 -2.17% 14
North of England -44 59 £483 +37.86% 2
North West -16 35 £465 +32.74% 1
London -52 27 £550 +4.76% 8
Yorkshire -37 24 £511 +4.72% 1
South West -48 14 £536 -6.74% 1
East of England -26 7 £563 +2.27% 3
Midlands -45 7 £532 -3.36%
West Midlands -49 7 £532 -3.36%
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 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.17%) OpenShift
2 24 (13.48%) Azure
3 20 (11.24%) GitHub
3 20 (11.24%) IaaS
4 18 (10.11%) PaaS
5 10 (5.62%) AWS
6 9 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.25%) Azure Stack
7 4 (2.25%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.25%) GCP
8 3 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.69%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.12%) Datadog
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 47 (26.40%) DNS
2 31 (17.42%) VSAN
3 24 (13.48%) Firewall
4 19 (10.67%) VPN
5 16 (8.99%) DHCP
6 14 (7.87%) VLAN
7 12 (6.74%) SAN
8 11 (6.18%) NAS
8 11 (6.18%) Network Security
9 10 (5.62%) SMTP
10 6 (3.37%) BGP
10 6 (3.37%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (3.37%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (3.37%) MPLS
10 6 (3.37%) TACACS
11 3 (1.69%) NetScaler
12 2 (1.12%) iSCSI
12 2 (1.12%) LAN
12 2 (1.12%) WAN
13 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.37%) Db2
4 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.69%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (1.12%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 21 (11.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.62%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.06%) Finance
5 6 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.25%) Banking
8 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.12%) Advertising
9 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (21.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (16.85%) VMware Engineer
3 27 (15.17%) Architect
4 20 (11.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 20 (11.24%) Storage Engineer
5 18 (10.11%) Wintel Engineer
6 16 (8.99%) Senior
7 15 (8.43%) Support Engineer
8 13 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) Lead
9 11 (6.18%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 11 (6.18%) VMware Architect
10 9 (5.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 8 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) NetApp Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Security Engineer
13 6 (3.37%) Administrator
13 6 (3.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.37%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.74%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.93%) LDAP
3 3 (1.69%) Flash
3 3 (1.69%) REST
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.56%) OpenID
4 1 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.66%) Clustering
2 29 (16.29%) Replication
3 26 (14.61%) PKI
4 18 (10.11%) Cloud Native
4 18 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (7.87%) Data Centre
6 13 (7.30%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.37%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.69%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 85 (47.75%) Windows
2 72 (40.45%) Windows Server
3 42 (23.60%) Linux
4 9 (5.06%) Ubuntu
4 9 (5.06%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (4.49%) VMS
6 7 (3.93%) Data ONTAP
7 6 (3.37%) AIX
7 6 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (3.37%) Unix
8 5 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.81%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (2.25%) SUSE
10 1 (0.56%) CentOS
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.65%) High Availability
2 48 (26.97%) Disaster Recovery
2 48 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (23.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (20.79%) Migration
5 34 (19.10%) Network Virtualisation
6 29 (16.29%) Capacity Planning
7 24 (13.48%) Change Management
7 24 (13.48%) DevOps
8 23 (12.92%) Load Balancing
9 22 (12.36%) CI/CD
10 21 (11.80%) ITSM
11 20 (11.24%) Containerisation
12 19 (10.67%) Agile
13 17 (9.55%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (8.99%) RBAC
15 15 (8.43%) Data Migration
15 15 (8.43%) Project Delivery
16 14 (7.87%) Performance Optimisation
17 12 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 68 (38.20%) PowerShell
2 31 (17.42%) Python
3 26 (14.61%) Bash
4 17 (9.55%) SQL
5 4 (2.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 115 (64.61%) Security Cleared
2 64 (35.96%) DV Cleared
3 53 (29.78%) SC Cleared
4 44 (24.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 29 (16.29%) VCAP
6 23 (12.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (11.24%) MCSA
8 19 (10.67%) MCSE
9 10 (5.62%) Degree
10 6 (3.37%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.37%) OCP
10 6 (3.37%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (2.25%) APMG
11 4 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.25%) GIAC
11 4 (2.25%) SSCP
12 3 (1.69%) CCA
12 3 (1.69%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (1.69%) GSEC
13 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.62%) SLA
2 9 (5.06%) NIST
3 6 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.12%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 125 (70.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 115 (64.61%) VMware ESXi
3 98 (55.06%) vSphere
4 67 (37.64%) VMware NSX
5 41 (23.03%) Virtual Machines
6 40 (22.47%) Active Directory
7 28 (15.73%) Hyper-V
8 19 (10.67%) vCloud
9 11 (6.18%) KVM
10 10 (5.62%) BitLocker
10 10 (5.62%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (5.06%) Docker
12 3 (1.69%) Firmware
12 3 (1.69%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.69%) UAG
13 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (1.12%) NFS
13 2 (1.12%) SRDF
13 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 58 (32.58%) Ansible
2 39 (21.91%) Kubernetes
3 27 (15.17%) SCOM
4 24 (13.48%) Terraform
5 20 (11.24%) Argo
6 16 (8.99%) vMotion
7 15 (8.43%) Grafana
7 15 (8.43%) PowerCLI
8 13 (7.30%) vRealize
9 11 (6.18%) VxRail
10 9 (5.06%) Puppet
11 8 (4.49%) Avamar
11 8 (4.49%) NetBackup
12 6 (3.37%) IBM BigFix
13 5 (2.81%) SCCM
14 4 (2.25%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
15 3 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 166 (93.26%) VMware
2 54 (30.34%) Microsoft
3 32 (17.98%) Cisco
4 24 (13.48%) Dell
5 21 (11.80%) Pure Storage
6 18 (10.11%) Red Hat
7 16 (8.99%) NetApp
7 16 (8.99%) Veeam
8 14 (7.87%) Citrix
9 12 (6.74%) Splunk
10 10 (5.62%) Broadcom
11 8 (4.49%) Thales
12 6 (3.37%) IBM
12 6 (3.37%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.25%) Google
13 4 (2.25%) Remedy
13 4 (2.25%) Symantec
13 4 (2.25%) Veritas
13 4 (2.25%) Zerto
14 3 (1.69%) ServiceNow