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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 402 422
Rank change year-on-year -25 +20 +62
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 191 104 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.38% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.14% 2.45% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 78 90
10th Percentile £412 £419 £320
25th Percentile £463 £510 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.02% -0.91%
75th Percentile £591 £590 £606
90th Percentile £658 £661 £614
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £47.20 - £65.18
25th Percentile £49.00 £71.00 £67.31
Median hourly rate £54.37 £77.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.39% +5.84% +71.18%
75th Percentile £64.19 £83.00 £76.31
90th Percentile £66.16 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £54.37 £77.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -29.39% +5.84% +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 6,080 4,239 4,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 15.54% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,180 2,813 3,371
10th Percentile £316 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +1.98% -2.74% -5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 53 94
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £16.85
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% +74.40% -45.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.57 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £79.74 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +47.33% +15.38% -43.48%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -22 66 £565 -1.74% 20
North of England -48 56 £483 +17.09% 2
London -41 35 £500 -4.31% 8
North West -26 31 £466 +33.14% 1
Yorkshire -41 24 £511 +18.79%
South West -50 14 £536 -6.74% 2
East of England -18 11 £563 +2.27% 2
Midlands -40 9 £532 -3.36%
West Midlands -54 9 £532 +16.17%
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 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.57%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.05%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.66%) OpenShift
2 20 (10.47%) Azure
2 20 (10.47%) GitHub
3 16 (8.38%) IaaS
4 13 (6.81%) PaaS
5 11 (5.76%) AWS
6 5 (2.62%) GCP
6 5 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.09%) Azure Stack
7 4 (2.09%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.57%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.05%) Datadog
9 2 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 58 (30.37%) DNS
2 36 (18.85%) VSAN
3 23 (12.04%) Firewall
4 20 (10.47%) VPN
5 19 (9.95%) DHCP
6 13 (6.81%) Network Security
7 12 (6.28%) SAN
7 12 (6.28%) VLAN
8 10 (5.24%) NAS
9 8 (4.19%) SMTP
10 6 (3.14%) BGP
10 6 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (3.14%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (3.14%) MPLS
10 6 (3.14%) TACACS
11 3 (1.57%) DMZ
11 3 (1.57%) LAN
11 3 (1.57%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.57%) WAN
11 3 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.14%) Db2
3 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.57%) Big Data
4 3 (1.57%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (10.99%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.57%) JIRA
3 2 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.05%) Git
3 2 (1.05%) GitLab
3 2 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 41 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.24%) Finance
3 10 (5.24%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.09%) Banking
7 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.05%) Advertising
8 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (21.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (16.75%) VMware Engineer
3 22 (11.52%) Support Engineer
4 20 (10.47%) Architect
4 20 (10.47%) Storage Engineer
5 19 (9.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 19 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (8.90%) Senior
7 14 (7.33%) Wintel Engineer
8 13 (6.81%) Lead
9 11 (5.76%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Consultant
10 10 (5.24%) VMware Consultant
11 9 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) VMware Architect
13 7 (3.66%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (3.14%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.28%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.66%) LDAP
3 4 (2.09%) REST
4 3 (1.57%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.57%) Flash
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.52%) OpenID
5 1 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.18%) Clustering
2 28 (14.66%) PKI
3 25 (13.09%) Replication
4 18 (9.42%) Cloud Native
5 17 (8.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (8.38%) Data Centre
7 11 (5.76%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (5.24%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
9 6 (3.14%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.57%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.57%) EMC VNX
12 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 101 (52.88%) Windows
2 79 (41.36%) Windows Server
3 47 (24.61%) Linux
4 9 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (4.19%) Ubuntu
5 8 (4.19%) VMS
6 7 (3.66%) Data ONTAP
6 7 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (3.14%) AIX
7 6 (3.14%) Unix
7 6 (3.14%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (2.09%) SUSE
9 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.52%) Rocky
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.75%) High Availability
2 52 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (25.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (23.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (19.90%) Migration
6 32 (16.75%) Network Virtualisation
7 27 (14.14%) Change Management
8 26 (13.61%) DevOps
8 26 (13.61%) ITSM
9 25 (13.09%) Capacity Planning
10 24 (12.57%) CI/CD
11 23 (12.04%) Load Balancing
12 21 (10.99%) Containerisation
13 19 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (9.42%) Agile
14 18 (9.42%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (8.90%) Project Delivery
15 17 (8.90%) RBAC
16 15 (7.85%) ITIL
16 15 (7.85%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (35.08%) PowerShell
2 37 (19.37%) Python
3 29 (15.18%) Bash
4 20 (10.47%) SQL
5 4 (2.09%) PHP
6 3 (1.57%) Java
7 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (63.35%) Security Cleared
2 71 (37.17%) DV Cleared
3 57 (29.84%) SC Cleared
4 41 (21.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (13.61%) VCAP
6 20 (10.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (8.90%) MCSA
8 15 (7.85%) MCSE
9 11 (5.76%) Degree
10 6 (3.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.14%) OCP
10 6 (3.14%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (2.09%) APMG
11 4 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.09%) GIAC
11 4 (2.09%) SSCP
12 3 (1.57%) CCA
12 3 (1.57%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (1.57%) GSEC
13 2 (1.05%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.24%) SLA
2 9 (4.71%) NIST
3 7 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.05%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 141 (73.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 132 (69.11%) VMware ESXi
3 93 (48.69%) vSphere
4 82 (42.93%) VMware NSX
5 55 (28.80%) Active Directory
6 37 (19.37%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (14.14%) Hyper-V
8 20 (10.47%) vCloud
9 10 (5.24%) KVM
10 8 (4.19%) BitLocker
10 8 (4.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (3.66%) Docker
12 6 (3.14%) UAG
13 5 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (2.09%) Terminal Services
15 3 (1.57%) Firmware
15 3 (1.57%) NFS
16 2 (1.05%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (1.05%) SRDF
17 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 56 (29.32%) Ansible
2 39 (20.42%) Kubernetes
3 36 (18.85%) SCOM
4 29 (15.18%) Terraform
5 20 (10.47%) Argo
6 16 (8.38%) PowerCLI
7 15 (7.85%) Grafana
7 15 (7.85%) vRealize
8 14 (7.33%) vMotion
9 12 (6.28%) Avamar
10 10 (5.24%) Puppet
11 9 (4.71%) NetBackup
12 8 (4.19%) VxRail
13 6 (3.14%) IBM BigFix
13 6 (3.14%) SCCM
14 4 (2.09%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (2.09%) Nagios
14 4 (2.09%) Nessus
Vendors
1 184 (96.34%) VMware
2 52 (27.23%) Microsoft
3 31 (16.23%) Cisco
4 24 (12.57%) Dell
5 21 (10.99%) Pure Storage
6 16 (8.38%) NetApp
6 16 (8.38%) Red Hat
7 15 (7.85%) Citrix
7 15 (7.85%) Veeam
8 13 (6.81%) Broadcom
8 13 (6.81%) Splunk
9 11 (5.76%) SolarWinds
9 11 (5.76%) Thales
10 6 (3.14%) IBM
10 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.14%) Tenable
11 5 (2.62%) EMC
11 5 (2.62%) Google
11 5 (2.62%) Remedy
11 5 (2.62%) Symantec