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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 402 407
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 +71
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 197 103 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.28% 2.39% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 75 86
10th Percentile £380 £414 £323
25th Percentile £463 £510 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £590 £608
90th Percentile £715 £673 £619
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £48.00 £72.86 £65.18
25th Percentile £51.09 £75.66 £67.31
Median hourly rate £63.10 £83.32 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.26% +14.52% +71.18%
75th Percentile £67.47 £87.97 £76.31
90th Percentile - £88.97 £77.33
UK median hourly rate £63.10 £83.32 £72.75
% change year-on-year -24.26% +14.52% +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 5,998 4,305 4,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 15.50% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,087 2,863 3,232
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £694 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £516 £503 £520
% change year-on-year +2.74% -3.37% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £38.50 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +56.77% -31.55%
75th Percentile £70.11 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +65.33% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -10 82 £551 -4.13% 17
North of England -51 44 £485 +17.58% 8
London -44 40 £500 -3.85% 12
North West -38 23 £482 +37.57% 3
Yorkshire -41 20 £507 +17.98% 5
East of England -10 13 £563 +2.27% 3
Midlands -40 9 £532 -3.36%
West Midlands -52 9 £532 +16.17%
South West -56 9 £535 -6.96% 8
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 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.54%) Confluence
2 5 (2.54%) nginx
3 4 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (2.03%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.17%) OpenShift
2 20 (10.15%) Azure
3 16 (8.12%) GitHub
3 16 (8.12%) IaaS
4 13 (6.60%) PaaS
5 11 (5.58%) AWS
6 5 (2.54%) GCP
6 5 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.03%) Azure Stack
7 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.52%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.02%) Datadog
9 2 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.51%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.51%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 61 (30.96%) DNS
2 44 (22.34%) VSAN
3 24 (12.18%) Firewall
4 22 (11.17%) DHCP
5 15 (7.61%) VPN
6 13 (6.60%) SAN
7 11 (5.58%) VLAN
8 10 (5.08%) NAS
9 8 (4.06%) Network Security
9 8 (4.06%) SMTP
10 3 (1.52%) DMZ
10 3 (1.52%) LAN
10 3 (1.52%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.52%) WAN
10 3 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.02%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.02%) WLAN
12 1 (0.51%) MPLS
12 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.52%) Big Data
3 3 (1.52%) Db2
3 3 (1.52%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (8.63%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.54%) JIRA
3 4 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.02%) Git
4 2 (1.02%) GitLab
4 2 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 39 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (4.57%) Finance
4 8 (4.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.03%) Banking
7 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.02%) Advertising
8 2 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Legal
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (23.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (18.27%) VMware Engineer
3 24 (12.18%) Support Engineer
4 22 (11.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 21 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (10.66%) Storage Engineer
6 20 (10.15%) Senior
7 18 (9.14%) Architect
8 16 (8.12%) Lead
9 14 (7.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 13 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (6.09%) Consultant
11 12 (6.09%) VMware Consultant
12 9 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.57%) Wintel Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) VMware Architect
14 6 (3.05%) Administrator
15 5 (2.54%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (2.03%) REST
3 3 (1.52%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.02%) Flash
4 2 (1.02%) LDAP
5 1 (0.51%) OAuth
5 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.51%) OpenID
5 1 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.69%) Clustering
1 25 (12.69%) PKI
2 20 (10.15%) Replication
3 17 (8.63%) Data Centre
4 16 (8.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (7.11%) Cloud Native
6 12 (6.09%) Enterprise Storage
7 8 (4.06%) Private Cloud
8 7 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (3.05%) Management Information System
9 6 (3.05%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.52%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.52%) EMC VNX
11 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 111 (56.35%) Windows
2 85 (43.15%) Windows Server
3 42 (21.32%) Linux
4 13 (6.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.55%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.55%) VMS
6 6 (3.05%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (2.54%) Windows 10
8 4 (2.03%) SUSE
9 3 (1.52%) AIX
9 3 (1.52%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.52%) Unix
10 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.51%) CentOS
11 1 (0.51%) Rocky
11 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (26.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 47 (23.86%) High Availability
4 39 (19.80%) Disaster Recovery
5 34 (17.26%) Migration
6 32 (16.24%) Change Management
6 32 (16.24%) ITSM
7 28 (14.21%) Network Virtualisation
8 25 (12.69%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (11.17%) Agile
9 22 (11.17%) DevOps
10 21 (10.66%) CI/CD
10 21 (10.66%) Load Balancing
11 20 (10.15%) Capacity Planning
12 17 (8.63%) Containerisation
12 17 (8.63%) ITIL
12 17 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (7.61%) Security Hardening
14 14 (7.11%) Project Delivery
14 14 (7.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.49%) PowerShell
2 32 (16.24%) Python
3 23 (11.68%) Bash
4 17 (8.63%) SQL
5 3 (1.52%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) PHP
6 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 130 (65.99%) Security Cleared
2 82 (41.62%) DV Cleared
3 53 (26.90%) SC Cleared
4 42 (21.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (13.71%) VCAP
6 17 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (6.60%) MCSA
8 11 (5.58%) Degree
8 11 (5.58%) MCSE
9 6 (3.05%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.05%) OCP
9 6 (3.05%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.52%) CCA
10 3 (1.52%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.02%) NCDA
11 2 (1.02%) NCIE
12 1 (0.51%) APMG
12 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.08%) SLA
2 4 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.03%) NIST
3 2 (1.02%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 147 (74.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 142 (72.08%) VMware ESXi
3 89 (45.18%) VMware NSX
4 88 (44.67%) vSphere
5 66 (33.50%) Active Directory
6 29 (14.72%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (11.68%) Hyper-V
8 22 (11.17%) vCloud
9 8 (4.06%) BitLocker
9 8 (4.06%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (3.55%) Docker
11 6 (3.05%) UAG
11 6 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (2.54%) KVM
13 4 (2.03%) Firmware
13 4 (2.03%) Terminal Services
14 3 (1.52%) NFS
15 2 (1.02%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (1.02%) SRDF
16 1 (0.51%) Samba
Systems Management
1 48 (24.37%) Ansible
2 40 (20.30%) SCOM
3 36 (18.27%) Kubernetes
4 27 (13.71%) Terraform
5 17 (8.63%) vRealize
6 16 (8.12%) Argo
7 15 (7.61%) vMotion
8 14 (7.11%) Avamar
8 14 (7.11%) PowerCLI
9 13 (6.60%) Grafana
10 10 (5.08%) Puppet
11 9 (4.57%) NetBackup
11 9 (4.57%) VxRail
12 6 (3.05%) SCCM
13 4 (2.03%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (2.03%) Nagios
13 4 (2.03%) Nessus
13 4 (2.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 194 (98.48%) VMware
2 52 (26.40%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.20%) Dell
4 21 (10.66%) Cisco
5 18 (9.14%) Broadcom
6 17 (8.63%) Pure Storage
7 16 (8.12%) NetApp
8 15 (7.61%) Citrix
9 14 (7.11%) Red Hat
9 14 (7.11%) Veeam
10 13 (6.60%) SolarWinds
10 13 (6.60%) Thales
11 11 (5.58%) Splunk
12 8 (4.06%) ServiceNow
13 6 (3.05%) Tenable
14 5 (2.54%) EMC
14 5 (2.54%) Google
14 5 (2.54%) Remedy
14 5 (2.54%) Symantec
14 5 (2.54%) Zerto