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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 401 416
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +69
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 193 103 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.24% 2.40% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 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 £610 £590 £608
90th Percentile £725 £673 £619
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £48.40 £72.86 £65.18
25th Percentile £52.18 £75.66 £67.31
Median hourly rate £67.47 £83.32 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.02% +14.52% +71.18%
75th Percentile - £87.97 £76.31
90th Percentile - £88.97 £77.33
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £83.32 £72.75
% change year-on-year -19.02% +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 5,964 4,291 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 15.54% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,064 2,859 3,231
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -2.88% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £520
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.45 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +56.77% -33.18%
75th Percentile £70.79 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +68.36% +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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -5 83 £570 -0.87% 17
North of England -40 42 £485 +17.58% 7
London -43 38 £500 -3.85% 10
North West -37 23 £482 +37.57% 3
Yorkshire -39 18 £511 +18.79% 4
East of England -13 12 £545 -0.91% 3
South West -61 9 £535 -6.96% 9
Midlands -48 6 £563 +2.36%
West Midlands -52 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 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.11%) Confluence
2 6 (3.11%) nginx
3 5 (2.59%) Apache
4 4 (2.07%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.36%) Azure
2 18 (9.33%) OpenShift
3 16 (8.29%) IaaS
4 13 (6.74%) GitHub
4 13 (6.74%) PaaS
5 11 (5.70%) AWS
6 5 (2.59%) GCP
7 4 (2.07%) Azure Stack
7 4 (2.07%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Storage
9 2 (1.04%) Datadog
9 2 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.04%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.52%) OCI
10 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 59 (30.57%) DNS
2 45 (23.32%) VSAN
3 24 (12.44%) Firewall
4 23 (11.92%) DHCP
5 15 (7.77%) VPN
6 13 (6.74%) SAN
7 10 (5.18%) NAS
7 10 (5.18%) VLAN
8 8 (4.15%) Network Security
8 8 (4.15%) SMTP
9 3 (1.55%) DMZ
9 3 (1.55%) LAN
9 3 (1.55%) NetScaler
9 3 (1.55%) WAN
9 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.04%) iSCSI
10 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.04%) WLAN
11 1 (0.52%) BGP
11 1 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.55%) Big Data
3 3 (1.55%) Db2
3 3 (1.55%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.11%) JIRA
3 5 (2.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.59%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.04%) Git
4 2 (1.04%) GitLab
4 2 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 37 (19.17%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (2.59%) Finance
5 4 (2.07%) Banking
6 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.04%) Advertising
8 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (22.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (18.13%) VMware Engineer
3 24 (12.44%) Support Engineer
4 22 (11.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 21 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (10.88%) Senior
5 21 (10.88%) Storage Engineer
6 16 (8.29%) Architect
6 16 (8.29%) Lead
7 14 (7.25%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) Consultant
9 12 (6.22%) VMware Consultant
10 9 (4.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Administrator
12 6 (3.11%) VMware Architect
13 5 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.15%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (2.07%) REST
3 3 (1.55%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.04%) Flash
4 2 (1.04%) LDAP
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.52%) OpenID
5 1 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.95%) Clustering
1 25 (12.95%) PKI
2 20 (10.36%) Replication
3 15 (7.77%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.22%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.22%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (4.15%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.63%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.11%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.55%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (1.55%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 112 (58.03%) Windows
2 86 (44.56%) Windows Server
3 42 (21.76%) Linux
4 13 (6.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.63%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.63%) VMS
6 6 (3.11%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.11%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (2.07%) SUSE
8 3 (1.55%) AIX
8 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.55%) 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 56 (29.02%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (25.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 43 (22.28%) High Availability
4 36 (18.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 33 (17.10%) ITSM
6 31 (16.06%) Change Management
7 30 (15.54%) Migration
8 27 (13.99%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (13.47%) Network Virtualisation
10 22 (11.40%) Agile
11 19 (9.84%) Capacity Planning
11 19 (9.84%) DevOps
12 18 (9.33%) CI/CD
12 18 (9.33%) Load Balancing
13 17 (8.81%) ITIL
14 16 (8.29%) Security Hardening
15 15 (7.77%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (7.25%) Containerisation
16 14 (7.25%) Project Delivery
16 14 (7.25%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.16%) PowerShell
2 30 (15.54%) Python
3 21 (10.88%) Bash
4 17 (8.81%) SQL
5 3 (1.55%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) PHP
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (66.84%) Security Cleared
2 81 (41.97%) DV Cleared
3 51 (26.42%) SC Cleared
4 41 (21.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (13.99%) VCAP
6 17 (8.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (6.74%) MCSA
8 11 (5.70%) Degree
8 11 (5.70%) MCSE
9 6 (3.11%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.59%) OCP
10 5 (2.59%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.55%) CCA
11 3 (1.55%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.04%) NCDA
12 2 (1.04%) NCIE
13 1 (0.52%) APMG
13 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.18%) SLA
2 4 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
4 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 144 (74.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 141 (73.06%) VMware ESXi
3 88 (45.60%) VMware NSX
4 84 (43.52%) vSphere
5 66 (34.20%) Active Directory
6 29 (15.03%) Virtual Machines
7 23 (11.92%) vCloud
8 22 (11.40%) Hyper-V
9 8 (4.15%) BitLocker
9 8 (4.15%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (3.63%) Docker
11 6 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (2.59%) UAG
13 4 (2.07%) Firmware
13 4 (2.07%) KVM
13 4 (2.07%) Terminal Services
14 3 (1.55%) NFS
15 2 (1.04%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (1.04%) SRDF
16 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 44 (22.80%) Ansible
2 41 (21.24%) SCOM
3 33 (17.10%) Kubernetes
4 27 (13.99%) Terraform
5 17 (8.81%) vRealize
6 15 (7.77%) vMotion
7 14 (7.25%) Avamar
8 13 (6.74%) Argo
9 12 (6.22%) PowerCLI
10 11 (5.70%) Grafana
11 10 (5.18%) Puppet
12 9 (4.66%) NetBackup
13 8 (4.15%) VxRail
14 6 (3.11%) SCCM
15 5 (2.59%) Packer
16 4 (2.07%) Failover Clustering
16 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (2.07%) Nessus
16 4 (2.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 190 (98.45%) VMware
2 51 (26.42%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.95%) Dell
4 19 (9.84%) Cisco
5 18 (9.33%) Broadcom
6 16 (8.29%) NetApp
7 15 (7.77%) Citrix
8 14 (7.25%) Pure Storage
9 13 (6.74%) SolarWinds
9 13 (6.74%) Thales
9 13 (6.74%) Veeam
10 12 (6.22%) Red Hat
11 9 (4.66%) ServiceNow
11 9 (4.66%) Splunk
12 6 (3.11%) Tenable
13 5 (2.59%) Google
13 5 (2.59%) Remedy
13 5 (2.59%) Symantec
13 5 (2.59%) Tanium
13 5 (2.59%) Zerto