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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 432 445
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 +66
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 165 89 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.23% 2.22% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 66 53
10th Percentile £393 £409 £305
25th Percentile £463 £478 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £575 £600
90th Percentile £725 £588 £608
UK median daily rate £538 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% -
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% +113.33%
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% +79.20%

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 5,103 4,012 3,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.03% 14.34% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,408 2,633 2,592
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 76 51
10th Percentile £21.13 £17.58 £21.05
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.75 £23.99
Median hourly rate £65.69 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.21% -10.53% -27.62%
75th Percentile £74.25 £63.75 £63.50
90th Percentile £89.38 £78.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £25.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +148.94% -32.00% -31.82%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -4 89 £538 +7.50% 10
London -72 30 £600 +15.38% 17
North of England -53 23 £484 +15.58% 3
Yorkshire -30 11 £525 +27.27% 2
North West -42 11 £482 +13.29% 1
East of England -29 9 £545 -12.45%
Midlands -45 6 £526 +3.69%
South West -49 6 £619 +11.49% 5
West Midlands -40 5 - -
East Midlands -12 1 £526 -19.04%
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 (3.64%) nginx
2 5 (3.03%) Apache
2 5 (3.03%) Confluence
3 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.42%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.91%) Azure
2 13 (7.88%) AWS
3 8 (4.85%) OpenShift
4 6 (3.64%) IaaS
5 4 (2.42%) GCP
6 3 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.82%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.82%) PaaS
6 3 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.21%) OCI
8 1 (0.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.61%) Datadog
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub
8 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.61%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 61 (36.97%) DNS
2 40 (24.24%) VSAN
3 24 (14.55%) DHCP
4 21 (12.73%) Firewall
5 11 (6.67%) SAN
6 10 (6.06%) VLAN
6 10 (6.06%) VPN
7 7 (4.24%) LAN
7 7 (4.24%) NAS
7 7 (4.24%) WAN
8 6 (3.64%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.42%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.42%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.82%) DMZ
10 3 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.82%) Network Security
10 3 (1.82%) SMTP
10 3 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.21%) Wireless
11 2 (1.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (1.82%) Big Data
1 3 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.64%) JIRA
2 5 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.82%) Git
3 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.21%) GitLab
4 2 (1.21%) Subversion
General
1 26 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 5 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.21%) Finance
6 2 (1.21%) Retail
7 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 30 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (14.55%) VMware Engineer
5 20 (12.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 20 (12.12%) Senior
6 15 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
7 13 (7.88%) Lead
8 11 (6.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 10 (6.06%) Consultant
9 10 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.06%) VMware Consultant
9 10 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) Technical Leader
11 8 (4.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support
13 5 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 5 (3.03%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.36%) Terraform
2 4 (2.42%) REST
3 3 (1.82%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.61%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.61%) LDAP
4 1 (0.61%) OAuth
4 1 (0.61%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.61%) OpenID
4 1 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.12%) PKI
2 16 (9.70%) Data Centre
3 14 (8.48%) Clustering
4 12 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 11 (6.67%) Replication
6 9 (5.45%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.03%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.82%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.61%) EMC VMAX
10 1 (0.61%) EMC VNX
10 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.61%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 112 (67.88%) Windows
2 91 (55.15%) Windows Server
3 28 (16.97%) Linux
4 18 (10.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.64%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.21%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.61%) CentOS
8 1 (0.61%) Rocky
8 1 (0.61%) VMS
8 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.67%) ITSM
1 44 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (24.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
4 34 (20.61%) Change Management
5 28 (16.97%) High Availability
6 27 (16.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (15.76%) Network Virtualisation
8 25 (15.15%) Agile
9 23 (13.94%) ITIL
10 20 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (10.91%) Software Distribution
12 17 (10.30%) Service Delivery
13 16 (9.70%) Migration
13 16 (9.70%) Problem Management
13 16 (9.70%) Project Delivery
13 16 (9.70%) Service Management
14 14 (8.48%) Capacity Management
14 14 (8.48%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (38.18%) PowerShell
2 17 (10.30%) SQL
3 14 (8.48%) Python
4 4 (2.42%) Bash
4 4 (2.42%) Java
5 1 (0.61%) Bicep
5 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (73.94%) Security Cleared
2 78 (47.27%) DV Cleared
3 47 (28.48%) SC Cleared
4 31 (18.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (15.15%) VCAP
6 16 (9.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (8.48%) MCSA
8 11 (6.67%) MCSE
9 5 (3.03%) Degree
10 3 (1.82%) CCA
10 3 (1.82%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.61%) NCDA
12 1 (0.61%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (1.82%) SLA
2 1 (0.61%) NCSC
2 1 (0.61%) NIST
2 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
System Software
1 136 (82.42%) VMware ESXi
2 130 (78.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 76 (46.06%) VMware NSX
4 73 (44.24%) Active Directory
5 60 (36.36%) vSphere
6 24 (14.55%) vCloud
7 20 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (4.24%) Hyper-V
9 6 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (3.03%) Firmware
11 4 (2.42%) UAG
12 3 (1.82%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.82%) Docker
12 3 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (1.82%) Terminal Services
13 2 (1.21%) NFS
14 1 (0.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 1 (0.61%) Samba
14 1 (0.61%) SRDF
14 1 (0.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (32.73%) SCOM
2 30 (18.18%) Ansible
3 25 (15.15%) Kubernetes
4 15 (9.09%) Avamar
5 11 (6.67%) vMotion
6 8 (4.85%) PowerCLI
6 8 (4.85%) vRealize
7 7 (4.24%) SCCM
8 6 (3.64%) Puppet
9 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (3.03%) Packer
10 4 (2.42%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (2.42%) Nagios
10 4 (2.42%) VxRail
11 3 (1.82%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.82%) Nessus
11 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
12 2 (1.21%) Grafana
12 2 (1.21%) SnapVault
12 2 (1.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 165 (100.00%) VMware
2 43 (26.06%) Microsoft
3 24 (14.55%) Dell
4 19 (11.52%) Broadcom
5 18 (10.91%) Cisco
6 17 (10.30%) SolarWinds
7 14 (8.48%) Thales
8 11 (6.67%) Citrix
9 10 (6.06%) Veeam
10 9 (5.45%) ServiceNow
11 7 (4.24%) NetApp
12 6 (3.64%) Remedy
13 5 (3.03%) EMC
13 5 (3.03%) SaltStack
13 5 (3.03%) Tanium
13 5 (3.03%) Tenable
14 4 (2.42%) Google
14 4 (2.42%) HP
14 4 (2.42%) Symantec
15 3 (1.82%) Atlassian