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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 448 511
Rank change year-on-year +22 +63 +31
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 93 75 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.05% 1.69% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 48 51
10th Percentile £413 £300 £356
25th Percentile £488 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £588
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £511 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.15% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £66.80 - -
25th Percentile £68.38 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +113.33% -
75th Percentile £86.32 - £67.81
90th Percentile £88.30 - £75.13
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -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 4,537 4,450 6,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.11% 14.09% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,921 4,338
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 51 161
10th Percentile £17.90 £19.95 £19.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.80 £27.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% -27.67% +109.12%
75th Percentile £63.40 £59.38 £74.37
90th Percentile £78.63 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £34.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.53% -35.24% +119.57%

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 2025. 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 +25 35 £500 -13.04% 25
South West +20 18 £555 +5.71% 1
London +14 16 £520 +18.86% 10
North of England -28 15 £425 -5.56% 2
North West -21 8 £425 -5.56%
Yorkshire - 7 £413 - 2
East of England 0 4 £623 -
Midlands -22 2 £508 +69.45% 2
West Midlands -18 1 £365 +21.87% 1
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 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 9 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.30%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.23%) Confluence
4 3 (3.23%) IIS
5 1 (1.08%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.08%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.98%) Azure
2 9 (9.68%) AWS
3 8 (8.60%) OpenShift
4 6 (6.45%) IaaS
5 5 (5.38%) Nutanix
6 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.23%) GitHub
8 2 (2.15%) GCP
8 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.08%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.08%) PaaS
9 1 (1.08%) Route 53
9 1 (1.08%) SaaS
9 1 (1.08%) Serverless
9 1 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (34.41%) DNS
2 15 (16.13%) Cisco Firepower
2 15 (16.13%) Cisco IOS
2 15 (16.13%) Cisco ISE
2 15 (16.13%) Junos
3 14 (15.05%) VSAN
4 13 (13.98%) Firewall
5 10 (10.75%) SAN
6 8 (8.60%) DHCP
6 8 (8.60%) Skype
7 7 (7.53%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.45%) VLAN
9 5 (5.38%) NAS
9 5 (5.38%) VPN
10 4 (4.30%) iSCSI
10 4 (4.30%) PCoIP
11 3 (3.23%) LAN
11 3 (3.23%) WAN
12 2 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (2.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.08%) Big Data
3 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.45%) Git
3 5 (5.38%) JIRA
4 4 (4.30%) GitLab
5 3 (3.23%) Subversion
6 2 (2.15%) Mercurial
6 2 (2.15%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (17.20%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.90%) Finance
3 10 (10.75%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.15%) Electronics
6 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.15%) Marketing
6 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Network Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 18 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (17.20%) Support Engineer
5 15 (16.13%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 15 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
5 15 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 14 (15.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (15.05%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 13 (13.98%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 13 (13.98%) Network Support
7 13 (13.98%) Network Support Engineer
8 12 (12.90%) Architect
9 8 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
11 5 (5.38%) Developer
11 5 (5.38%) ETL Developer
11 5 (5.38%) Senior
11 5 (5.38%) Storage Engineer
12 4 (4.30%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) RESTful
2 4 (4.30%) JSON
2 4 (4.30%) Middleware
2 4 (4.30%) REST
2 4 (4.30%) XML
3 2 (2.15%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.15%) Node.js
3 2 (2.15%) pytest
4 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Data Centre
1 10 (10.75%) PKI
2 8 (8.60%) Replication
3 6 (6.45%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.30%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.23%) Blog
6 3 (3.23%) Clustering
6 3 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.15%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 50 (53.76%) Windows
2 34 (36.56%) Linux
3 30 (32.26%) Windows Server
4 14 (15.05%) Windows 10
5 6 (6.45%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.30%) VMS
8 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.15%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.08%) CentOS
10 1 (1.08%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.73%) Service Management
2 22 (23.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (19.35%) ITSM
4 15 (16.13%) Migration
5 13 (13.98%) CI/CD
5 13 (13.98%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (10.75%) ITIL
6 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (9.68%) DevOps
7 9 (9.68%) RBAC
8 8 (8.60%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (7.53%) Containerisation
9 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (6.45%) Agile
10 6 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (6.45%) High Availability
10 6 (6.45%) Load Balancing
10 6 (6.45%) Roadmaps
10 6 (6.45%) Storage Management
11 5 (5.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) Python
2 13 (13.98%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.68%) SQL
4 7 (7.53%) Bash
5 4 (4.30%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.30%) VBA
6 3 (3.23%) C++
6 3 (3.23%) Go
6 3 (3.23%) Java
6 3 (3.23%) PHP
7 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (55.91%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 24 (25.81%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.38%) Degree
5 5 (5.38%) VCAP
6 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.23%) CCNA
7 3 (3.23%) CCNP
8 2 (2.15%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 3 (3.23%) NCSC
2 3 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (62.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (43.01%) Active Directory
2 40 (43.01%) VMware ESXi
3 39 (41.94%) VMware NSX
4 26 (27.96%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (27.96%) vSphere
5 6 (6.45%) Docker
6 4 (4.30%) Firmware
6 4 (4.30%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.08%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.08%) KVM
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.08%) NFS
8 1 (1.08%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Ansible
2 17 (18.28%) Terraform
3 8 (8.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (8.60%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.60%) vMotion
4 6 (6.45%) Argo
4 6 (6.45%) PowerCLI
4 6 (6.45%) WSUS
5 5 (5.38%) vRealize
6 4 (4.30%) Control-M
6 4 (4.30%) Puppet
7 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (3.23%) NetApp OnCommand
7 3 (3.23%) OPNET
8 2 (2.15%) Backup Exec
8 2 (2.15%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.15%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.15%) VxRail
9 1 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.08%) SCOM
Vendors
1 76 (81.72%) VMware
2 40 (43.01%) Microsoft
3 37 (39.78%) Cisco
4 22 (23.66%) SolarWinds
5 15 (16.13%) Juniper
6 14 (15.05%) Veeam
7 8 (8.60%) Dell
8 7 (7.53%) Citrix
9 6 (6.45%) Pure Storage
9 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
10 5 (5.38%) EMC
10 5 (5.38%) F5
11 4 (4.30%) NetApp
12 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
12 3 (3.23%) Symantec
13 2 (2.15%) Aruba
13 2 (2.15%) Broadcom
13 2 (2.15%) CheckPoint
13 2 (2.15%) Fortinet
13 2 (2.15%) Palo Alto