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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 413 424
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 +63
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 192 99 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.16% 2.31% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 70 80
10th Percentile £380 £412 £325
25th Percentile £463 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £602
90th Percentile £725 £652 £608
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £48.40 £66.80 £65.18
25th Percentile £52.18 £68.38 £67.31
Median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +5.84% +71.18%
75th Percentile - £86.32 £76.31
90th Percentile - £88.30 £77.33
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -12.38% +5.84% +58.12%

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 6,069 4,291 4,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.28% 15.44% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,131 2,856 3,199
10th Percentile £325 £301 £310
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 61 68
10th Percentile £20.50 £18.87 £20.35
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £66.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £83.62 £82.96 £74.13
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £36.00 £35.08
% change year-on-year +75.38% +2.62% -37.63%

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing vCenter Server in England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for vCenter Server in England

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 August 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 -1 86 £575 - 14
North of England -57 39 £483 +15.34% 6
London -56 38 £500 -3.85% 19
North West -29 22 £482 +24.26% 4
Yorkshire -33 16 £488 +13.44% 2
East of England -16 12 £545 -0.91% 3
South West -52 8 £530 -5.78% 8
Midlands -43 6 £563 +2.36%
West Midlands -48 6 £563 +23.06%
North East - 1 £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 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.13%) Confluence
2 6 (3.13%) nginx
3 5 (2.60%) Apache
4 4 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.46%) Azure
2 15 (7.81%) IaaS
3 14 (7.29%) OpenShift
4 12 (6.25%) AWS
5 11 (5.73%) PaaS
6 9 (4.69%) GitHub
7 5 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.60%) GCP
8 4 (2.08%) Azure Stack
8 4 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.04%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.04%) Datadog
10 2 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.04%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.04%) OCI
11 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 57 (29.69%) DNS
2 46 (23.96%) VSAN
3 24 (12.50%) Firewall
4 23 (11.98%) DHCP
5 14 (7.29%) SAN
6 13 (6.77%) VPN
7 11 (5.73%) NAS
7 11 (5.73%) VLAN
8 7 (3.65%) Network Security
8 7 (3.65%) SMTP
9 4 (2.08%) LAN
9 4 (2.08%) WAN
10 3 (1.56%) DMZ
10 3 (1.56%) iSCSI
10 3 (1.56%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.04%) WLAN
12 1 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.56%) Big Data
3 3 (1.56%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.04%) Db2
Development Applications
1 10 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.13%) JIRA
3 5 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.04%) Git
4 2 (1.04%) GitLab
4 2 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 34 (17.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.65%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.13%) Finance
5 5 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.08%) Banking
7 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.04%) Advertising
8 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (22.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
3 25 (13.02%) Support Engineer
4 22 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (11.46%) Senior
5 21 (10.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 20 (10.42%) Storage Engineer
7 15 (7.81%) Architect
7 15 (7.81%) Lead
8 14 (7.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 13 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (5.73%) Consultant
10 11 (5.73%) VMware Consultant
11 9 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.69%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 7 (3.65%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (2.08%) REST
3 3 (1.56%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.04%) Flash
5 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.52%) LDAP
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.52%) OpenID
5 1 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.50%) Clustering
2 23 (11.98%) PKI
3 20 (10.42%) Replication
4 16 (8.33%) Data Centre
5 13 (6.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (5.73%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.69%) Public Cloud
8 8 (4.17%) Private Cloud
9 7 (3.65%) Management Information System
10 6 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.56%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.56%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.56%) EMC VNX
12 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 115 (59.90%) Windows
2 89 (46.35%) Windows Server
3 40 (20.83%) Linux
4 14 (7.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.65%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.65%) VMS
6 6 (3.13%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.60%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (2.08%) SUSE
9 2 (1.04%) AIX
9 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.04%) Unix
9 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.52%) Rocky
10 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.65%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (26.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (21.35%) High Availability
4 35 (18.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (18.23%) ITSM
5 34 (17.71%) Change Management
6 30 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (14.06%) Migration
7 27 (14.06%) Network Virtualisation
8 22 (11.46%) Agile
9 20 (10.42%) Capacity Planning
9 20 (10.42%) ITIL
10 16 (8.33%) DevOps
10 16 (8.33%) Security Hardening
11 15 (7.81%) Load Balancing
11 15 (7.81%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (7.81%) Project Delivery
11 15 (7.81%) Service Management
12 14 (7.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 67 (34.90%) PowerShell
2 25 (13.02%) Python
3 17 (8.85%) SQL
4 16 (8.33%) Bash
5 3 (1.56%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (68.23%) Security Cleared
2 82 (42.71%) DV Cleared
3 51 (26.56%) SC Cleared
4 41 (21.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (14.06%) VCAP
6 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (7.29%) MCSA
8 11 (5.73%) MCSE
9 10 (5.21%) Degree
10 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.08%) OCP
11 4 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.56%) CCA
12 3 (1.56%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.04%) NCDA
13 2 (1.04%) NCIE
14 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.21%) SLA
2 3 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 145 (75.52%) VMware ESXi
1 145 (75.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 87 (45.31%) VMware NSX
3 81 (42.19%) vSphere
4 68 (35.42%) Active Directory
5 29 (15.10%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (13.02%) vCloud
7 20 (10.42%) Hyper-V
8 7 (3.65%) BitLocker
8 7 (3.65%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (3.13%) Docker
10 5 (2.60%) Firmware
10 5 (2.60%) UAG
11 4 (2.08%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.56%) KVM
12 3 (1.56%) NFS
13 2 (1.04%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (1.04%) SRDF
14 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 44 (22.92%) SCOM
2 40 (20.83%) Ansible
3 28 (14.58%) Kubernetes
4 25 (13.02%) Terraform
5 17 (8.85%) vRealize
6 16 (8.33%) vMotion
7 14 (7.29%) Avamar
8 12 (6.25%) PowerCLI
9 9 (4.69%) Argo
9 9 (4.69%) NetBackup
9 9 (4.69%) Puppet
10 8 (4.17%) Grafana
10 8 (4.17%) VxRail
11 6 (3.13%) SCCM
12 5 (2.60%) Packer
13 4 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (2.08%) Nessus
13 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 190 (98.96%) VMware
2 52 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 27 (14.06%) Dell
4 19 (9.90%) Cisco
5 18 (9.38%) Broadcom
6 15 (7.81%) NetApp
7 14 (7.29%) Citrix
8 13 (6.77%) SolarWinds
8 13 (6.77%) Thales
8 13 (6.77%) Veeam
9 10 (5.21%) Pure Storage
10 9 (4.69%) Red Hat
10 9 (4.69%) ServiceNow
11 6 (3.13%) EMC
11 6 (3.13%) Remedy
11 6 (3.13%) Splunk
11 6 (3.13%) Tenable
12 5 (2.60%) Google
12 5 (2.60%) Tanium
12 5 (2.60%) Zerto