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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 394 410
Rank change year-on-year -36 +16 +42
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 163 96 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.96% 2.56% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 77 87
10th Percentile £424 £365 £320
25th Percentile £466 £513 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £608
90th Percentile £703 £661 £643
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 £65.00 - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +58.82%

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 5,507 3,757 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.36% 15.51% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,805 2,587 3,213
10th Percentile £317 £306 £257
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +1.90% -10.40%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 36 103
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £39.53 £24.89 £17.74
Median hourly rate £56.50 £33.25 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% +29.05% -50.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.48 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £26.38
% change year-on-year +100.00% +4.24% -49.75%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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
North of England -37 57 £481 +37.43% 9
South East -23 53 £563 -2.17% 14
North West -19 34 £460 +31.43% 4
London -44 24 £500 -4.76% 7
Yorkshire -39 23 £507 +4.00% 4
South West -54 14 £536 -6.74% 3
East of England -20 9 £569 +3.41% 3
West Midlands -51 7 £532 -3.36% 2
Midlands -51 7 £532 -3.36% 5
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 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.72%) OpenShift
2 19 (11.66%) GitHub
2 19 (11.66%) IaaS
3 18 (11.04%) Azure
4 17 (10.43%) PaaS
5 6 (3.68%) AWS
5 6 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.45%) Azure Stack
7 3 (1.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.84%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.84%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.61%) Datadog
8 1 (0.61%) GCP
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.61%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.15%) DNS
2 23 (14.11%) Firewall
2 23 (14.11%) VSAN
3 17 (10.43%) VPN
4 13 (7.98%) VLAN
5 12 (7.36%) DHCP
6 11 (6.75%) Network Security
7 10 (6.13%) NAS
7 10 (6.13%) SAN
8 8 (4.91%) SMTP
9 7 (4.29%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (3.68%) BGP
10 6 (3.68%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (3.68%) MPLS
10 6 (3.68%) TACACS
11 2 (1.23%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.23%) LAN
11 2 (1.23%) NX-OS
11 2 (1.23%) WAN
12 1 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.68%) DB2
3 3 (1.84%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 19 (11.66%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.61%) GitLab
2 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 29 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.13%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.52%) Finance
4 8 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.45%) Banking
7 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Advertising
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (19.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (16.56%) Architect
3 26 (15.95%) VMware Engineer
4 17 (10.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 17 (10.43%) Wintel Engineer
5 16 (9.82%) Storage Engineer
6 12 (7.36%) VMware Architect
7 11 (6.75%) Lead
7 11 (6.75%) Senior
8 10 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (6.13%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) NetApp Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Consultant
11 6 (3.68%) Technical Specialist
11 6 (3.68%) VMware Consultant
12 5 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.36%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (4.29%) LDAP
3 3 (1.84%) Flash
4 2 (1.23%) REST
5 1 (0.61%) OAuth
5 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.61%) OpenID
5 1 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Clustering
2 27 (16.56%) Replication
3 21 (12.88%) PKI
4 17 (10.43%) Cloud Native
5 16 (9.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (7.36%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (6.13%) Data Centre
7 10 (6.13%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.07%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.23%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.23%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.61%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (46.01%) Windows
2 60 (36.81%) Windows Server
3 40 (24.54%) Linux
4 9 (5.52%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.91%) VMS
5 8 (4.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (3.68%) AIX
7 6 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
7 6 (3.68%) Unix
7 6 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.45%) SUSE
10 1 (0.61%) CentOS
10 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (29.45%) High Availability
2 46 (28.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 42 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (20.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (20.25%) Migration
6 32 (19.63%) Network Virtualisation
7 26 (15.95%) Capacity Planning
8 21 (12.88%) Agile
8 21 (12.88%) Change Management
9 20 (12.27%) CI/CD
9 20 (12.27%) DevOps
10 19 (11.66%) Containerisation
10 19 (11.66%) Load Balancing
11 15 (9.20%) ITSM
11 15 (9.20%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (9.20%) RBAC
12 14 (8.59%) Data Migration
12 14 (8.59%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (7.98%) Project Delivery
14 12 (7.36%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 59 (36.20%) PowerShell
2 29 (17.79%) Python
3 25 (15.34%) Bash
4 14 (8.59%) SQL
5 4 (2.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 103 (63.19%) Security Cleared
2 58 (35.58%) DV Cleared
3 47 (28.83%) SC Cleared
4 34 (20.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 24 (14.72%) VCAP
6 19 (11.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (9.82%) MCSA
8 15 (9.20%) MCSE
9 8 (4.91%) Degree
10 6 (3.68%) OCP
10 6 (3.68%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (2.45%) APMG
11 4 (2.45%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.45%) GIAC
11 4 (2.45%) SSCP
12 3 (1.84%) GSEC
13 2 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) NIST
1 9 (5.52%) SLA
2 6 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.23%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 108 (66.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 101 (61.96%) VMware ESXi
3 90 (55.21%) vSphere
4 57 (34.97%) VMware NSX
5 38 (23.31%) Virtual Machines
6 32 (19.63%) Active Directory
7 24 (14.72%) Hyper-V
8 17 (10.43%) vCloud
9 11 (6.75%) KVM
10 8 (4.91%) BitLocker
10 8 (4.91%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (4.29%) Docker
12 4 (2.45%) Firmware
13 3 (1.84%) UAG
14 1 (0.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.61%) NFS
14 1 (0.61%) SRDF
14 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 52 (31.90%) Ansible
2 33 (20.25%) Kubernetes
3 21 (12.88%) Terraform
4 19 (11.66%) Argo
4 19 (11.66%) SCOM
5 14 (8.59%) PowerCLI
6 13 (7.98%) Grafana
7 12 (7.36%) vMotion
7 12 (7.36%) vRealize
8 11 (6.75%) VxRail
9 7 (4.29%) NetBackup
9 7 (4.29%) Puppet
10 6 (3.68%) IBM BigFix
11 5 (3.07%) Avamar
12 4 (2.45%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (1.84%) SCCM
13 3 (1.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 2 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 150 (92.02%) VMware
2 47 (28.83%) Microsoft
3 31 (19.02%) Cisco
4 20 (12.27%) Dell
4 20 (12.27%) Pure Storage
5 18 (11.04%) Red Hat
6 15 (9.20%) NetApp
6 15 (9.20%) Veeam
7 12 (7.36%) Splunk
8 9 (5.52%) Broadcom
8 9 (5.52%) Citrix
9 6 (3.68%) IBM
10 5 (3.07%) Thales
11 4 (2.45%) Veritas
11 4 (2.45%) Zerto
12 3 (1.84%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.23%) 3PAR
13 2 (1.23%) Becrypt
13 2 (1.23%) EMC
13 2 (1.23%) Symantec