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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 393 481
Rank change year-on-year -31 +88 -13
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 130 84 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.46% 2.19% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 62 48
10th Percentile £458 £401 £341
25th Percentile £500 £495 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +10.05% -0.48%
75th Percentile £569 £661 £625
90th Percentile £598 £688 £697
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -6.82% +8.64% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £112.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% +86.67% +30.14%

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 5,282 3,843 4,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.40% 14.99% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,654 2,504 3,394
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 42 150
10th Percentile £17.38 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.01 £20.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +101.92% -38.14% -16.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.19 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% -3.79%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +9 56 £500 -13.04% 10
North of England -53 28 £469 +13.75% 6
South West -30 20 £550 -4.35% 5
London -21 17 £535 +7.00% 8
North West -31 14 £456 +10.55% 1
Yorkshire - 14 £511 - 5
East of England -19 5 £619 +3.13% 3
Midlands - 4 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 1
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 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.08%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.77%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.46%) OpenShift
2 17 (13.08%) Azure
3 15 (11.54%) IaaS
4 14 (10.77%) GitHub
5 10 (7.69%) PaaS
6 9 (6.92%) AWS
7 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.54%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.54%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.54%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.77%) GCP
9 1 (0.77%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 44 (33.85%) DNS
2 26 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 24 (18.46%) Firewall
4 20 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
4 20 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
4 20 (15.38%) Junos
5 12 (9.23%) VPN
6 10 (7.69%) DHCP
7 9 (6.92%) VLAN
7 9 (6.92%) VSAN
8 7 (5.38%) Network Security
9 6 (4.62%) BGP
9 6 (4.62%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (4.62%) MPLS
9 6 (4.62%) NX-OS
9 6 (4.62%) TACACS
10 5 (3.85%) Skype
11 4 (3.08%) PCoIP
11 4 (3.08%) SMTP
12 2 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) DB2
2 4 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.77%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.85%) Finance
5 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.31%) Banking
7 2 (1.54%) Legal
8 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.77%) Police
8 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (22.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 28 (21.54%) Architect
3 22 (16.92%) Network Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 17 (13.08%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 16 (12.31%) Support Engineer
8 14 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support
8 14 (10.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (10.00%) Network Support
9 13 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
11 9 (6.92%) VMware Architect
11 9 (6.92%) Wintel Engineer
12 7 (5.38%) Senior
13 6 (4.62%) Security Engineer
13 6 (4.62%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (4.62%) LDAP
3 2 (1.54%) Flash
3 2 (1.54%) REST
4 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) PKI
2 14 (10.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (10.00%) Clustering
4 12 (9.23%) Replication
5 11 (8.46%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (49.23%) Windows
2 48 (36.92%) Windows Server
3 41 (31.54%) Linux
4 12 (9.23%) Windows 10
5 8 (6.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (5.38%) Ubuntu
6 7 (5.38%) VMS
7 4 (3.08%) AIX
7 4 (3.08%) Unix
7 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.77%) CentOS
9 1 (0.77%) Solaris
9 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (21.54%) High Availability
1 28 (21.54%) Migration
2 26 (20.00%) ITSM
3 24 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (17.69%) CI/CD
4 23 (17.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (17.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (16.92%) Containerisation
5 22 (16.92%) DevOps
6 20 (15.38%) Service Management
7 19 (14.62%) Network Virtualisation
8 18 (13.85%) Load Balancing
9 14 (10.77%) Agile
9 14 (10.77%) RBAC
10 12 (9.23%) Change Management
10 12 (9.23%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (8.46%) Performance Optimisation
11 11 (8.46%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
13 9 (6.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.69%) PowerShell
2 26 (20.00%) Python
3 23 (17.69%) Bash
4 4 (3.08%) PHP
4 4 (3.08%) SQL
5 1 (0.77%) Perl
5 1 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 53 (40.77%) DV Cleared
3 44 (33.85%) SC Cleared
4 17 (13.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (8.46%) VCAP
6 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (6.15%) MCSA
7 8 (6.15%) MCSE
8 4 (3.08%) APMG
8 4 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (3.08%) GIAC
8 4 (3.08%) SSCP
9 3 (2.31%) GSEC
10 2 (1.54%) Degree
10 2 (1.54%) OCP
10 2 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) NIST
2 6 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.77%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.77%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (54.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (46.92%) vSphere
3 52 (40.00%) VMware NSX
4 50 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
5 42 (32.31%) Active Directory
6 33 (25.38%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (9.23%) Docker
7 12 (9.23%) Hyper-V
8 8 (6.15%) KVM
9 5 (3.85%) Firmware
9 5 (3.85%) vCloud
10 4 (3.08%) BitLocker
10 4 (3.08%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.54%) NFS
12 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.77%) UAG
Systems Management
1 40 (30.77%) Ansible
2 27 (20.77%) Terraform
3 26 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 21 (16.15%) Argo
5 10 (7.69%) Grafana
5 10 (7.69%) SCOM
6 8 (6.15%) vMotion
6 8 (6.15%) VxRail
7 6 (4.62%) PowerCLI
7 6 (4.62%) SCCM
7 6 (4.62%) WSUS
8 5 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (3.08%) IBM BigFix
9 4 (3.08%) Puppet
10 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.54%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.54%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (1.54%) NetApp OnCommand
12 1 (0.77%) Avamar
Vendors
1 101 (77.69%) VMware
2 48 (36.92%) Cisco
3 38 (29.23%) Microsoft
4 25 (19.23%) SolarWinds
5 20 (15.38%) Juniper
5 20 (15.38%) Pure Storage
5 20 (15.38%) Red Hat
6 15 (11.54%) Veeam
7 12 (9.23%) Dell
8 10 (7.69%) Splunk
9 6 (4.62%) Broadcom
9 6 (4.62%) Citrix
10 5 (3.85%) NetApp
11 4 (3.08%) IBM
12 2 (1.54%) Aruba
12 2 (1.54%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.54%) Google
12 2 (1.54%) Wyse
13 1 (0.77%) Becrypt
13 1 (0.77%) F5