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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 411 443
Rank change year-on-year -43 +32 +53
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 178 96 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.48% 2.46% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 68 65
10th Percentile £424 £411 £340
25th Percentile £463 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £615 £608
UK median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £59.61 £66.80 -
25th Percentile - £68.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -31.25% +126.17%
75th Percentile - £86.32 -
90th Percentile - £88.30 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £112.00
% change year-on-year -12.38% -31.25% +99.96%

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 5,114 3,908 3,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.99% 14.03% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,404 2,574 2,687
10th Percentile £313 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £724
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 74 54
10th Percentile £21.26 £18.11 £19.96
25th Percentile £33.68 £20.94 £24.70
Median hourly rate £67.24 £33.39 £43.09
Median % change year-on-year +101.39% -22.52% -15.92%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.66 £69.56
90th Percentile £89.80 £74.43 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £26.23 £38.50
% change year-on-year +144.96% -31.88% -30.00%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -6 94 £538 -2.27% 20
London -82 33 £600 +15.38% 17
North of England -55 27 £484 +15.58% 3
Yorkshire -35 14 £522 +26.55% 1
North West -51 12 £480 +12.94% 2
East of England -27 10 £575 -7.63%
Midlands -41 6 £526 +3.69% 2
South West -50 6 £631 +13.74% 9
West Midlands -35 5 - - 1
East Midlands -11 1 £526 -19.04% 1
North East - 1 £500 -
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 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.37%) nginx
2 5 (2.81%) Apache
2 5 (2.81%) Confluence
3 4 (2.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.24%) Azure
2 12 (6.74%) AWS
3 10 (5.62%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.49%) IaaS
5 5 (2.81%) PaaS
6 4 (2.25%) GCP
7 3 (1.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.69%) GitHub
7 3 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.69%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.12%) Datadog
8 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.12%) OCI
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 64 (35.96%) DNS
2 44 (24.72%) VSAN
3 25 (14.04%) DHCP
4 24 (13.48%) Firewall
5 14 (7.87%) SAN
6 13 (7.30%) VLAN
7 12 (6.74%) VPN
8 11 (6.18%) NAS
9 6 (3.37%) LAN
9 6 (3.37%) WAN
10 5 (2.81%) iSCSI
10 5 (2.81%) Network Security
10 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.25%) NetScaler
11 4 (2.25%) SMTP
12 3 (1.69%) DMZ
12 3 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (1.12%) Wireless
13 2 (1.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.69%) Big Data
3 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (2.81%) Bitbucket
1 5 (2.81%) Jenkins
1 5 (2.81%) JIRA
2 3 (1.69%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) GitLab
3 2 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 27 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (14.61%) Social Skills
3 5 (2.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.12%) Finance
6 2 (1.12%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Advertising
7 1 (0.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (20.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (17.98%) Support Engineer
3 30 (16.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (15.17%) VMware Engineer
5 22 (12.36%) Senior
6 20 (11.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 18 (10.11%) Storage Engineer
8 15 (8.43%) Lead
9 12 (6.74%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Consultant
10 10 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.62%) VMware Consultant
10 10 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.06%) Wintel Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Architect
12 8 (4.49%) Technical Leader
13 7 (3.93%) Virtualisation Engineer
14 6 (3.37%) Administrator
15 5 (2.81%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.17%) Terraform
2 4 (2.25%) REST
3 3 (1.69%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.56%) LDAP
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.56%) OpenID
4 1 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.80%) PKI
2 19 (10.67%) Data Centre
3 17 (9.55%) Clustering
4 15 (8.43%) Replication
5 11 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (6.18%) Public Cloud
6 9 (5.06%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.49%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (3.93%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.69%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 119 (66.85%) Windows
2 93 (52.25%) Windows Server
3 33 (18.54%) Linux
4 18 (10.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.37%) Data ONTAP
5 6 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.37%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.69%) VMS
6 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.12%) SUSE
7 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.56%) CentOS
8 1 (0.56%) Rocky
8 1 (0.56%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.53%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (24.72%) ITSM
3 43 (24.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (22.47%) Technical Leadership
5 34 (19.10%) Change Management
6 32 (17.98%) High Availability
7 30 (16.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (15.73%) Network Virtualisation
9 25 (14.04%) Agile
9 25 (14.04%) ITIL
10 21 (11.80%) Migration
11 20 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (10.11%) Software Distribution
13 17 (9.55%) Service Delivery
14 16 (8.99%) Capacity Planning
14 16 (8.99%) Problem Management
14 16 (8.99%) Project Delivery
14 16 (8.99%) Service Management
15 15 (8.43%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (37.64%) PowerShell
2 16 (8.99%) SQL
3 15 (8.43%) Python
4 6 (3.37%) Bash
5 4 (2.25%) Java
6 1 (0.56%) Bicep
6 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (73.60%) Security Cleared
2 85 (47.75%) DV Cleared
3 50 (28.09%) SC Cleared
4 36 (20.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (14.04%) VCAP
6 18 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (7.87%) MCSA
8 11 (6.18%) MCSE
9 5 (2.81%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.81%) Degree
10 3 (1.69%) CCA
10 3 (1.69%) Citrix Certification
10 3 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.12%) NCDA
11 2 (1.12%) NCIE
12 1 (0.56%) OCP
12 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.37%) SLA
2 3 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 146 (82.02%) VMware ESXi
2 141 (79.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 79 (44.38%) VMware NSX
4 77 (43.26%) Active Directory
5 67 (37.64%) vSphere
6 25 (14.04%) vCloud
6 25 (14.04%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (6.18%) Hyper-V
8 7 (3.93%) Firmware
8 7 (3.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.81%) UAG
10 4 (2.25%) BitLocker
10 4 (2.25%) Docker
10 4 (2.25%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (1.69%) NFS
11 3 (1.69%) Terminal Services
12 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (1.12%) SRDF
13 1 (0.56%) Samba
13 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (30.34%) SCOM
2 33 (18.54%) Ansible
3 27 (15.17%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.43%) Avamar
5 12 (6.74%) vMotion
6 9 (5.06%) PowerCLI
7 8 (4.49%) vRealize
8 7 (3.93%) Puppet
8 7 (3.93%) SCCM
9 6 (3.37%) VxRail
10 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.81%) Packer
11 4 (2.25%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (2.25%) Nagios
11 4 (2.25%) Nessus
11 4 (2.25%) NetBackup
11 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.69%) Argo
12 3 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (1.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 178 (100.00%) VMware
2 48 (26.97%) Microsoft
3 27 (15.17%) Dell
4 21 (11.80%) Cisco
5 19 (10.67%) Broadcom
6 18 (10.11%) SolarWinds
7 14 (7.87%) Thales
8 13 (7.30%) Veeam
9 12 (6.74%) Citrix
10 11 (6.18%) NetApp
11 9 (5.06%) ServiceNow
12 7 (3.93%) EMC
13 6 (3.37%) Remedy
13 6 (3.37%) Tenable
14 5 (2.81%) Tanium
15 4 (2.25%) Google
15 4 (2.25%) Pure Storage
15 4 (2.25%) Red Hat
15 4 (2.25%) SaltStack
15 4 (2.25%) Symantec