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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 419 484
Rank change year-on-year -14 +65 +19
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 116 69 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.27% 1.77% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 48 50
10th Percentile £457 £385 £356
25th Percentile £500 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £569 £665 £621
90th Percentile £638 £679 £714
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.36% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £74.40 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £88.50 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £112.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +86.67% +15.10%

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 5,107 3,900 4,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 14.59% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,547 2,519 3,505
10th Percentile £311 £313 £255
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £526 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% -0.75% -9.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 51 160
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.70
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.02 £21.25
Median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +82.49% -42.62% +13.81%
75th Percentile £62.52 £63.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.63 £77.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +101.92% -43.70% +19.95%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +11 56 £500 -13.04% 11
South West -10 21 £553 +0.45% 5
North of England -62 17 £456 +17.68% 6
North West -31 14 £456 +17.68% 2
London -10 12 £535 +7.00% 5
East of England -10 6 £685 +14.17% 2
Yorkshire - 3 - - 4
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 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 (7.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.45%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.72%) IIS
5 1 (0.86%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.52%) Azure
2 13 (11.21%) IaaS
3 11 (9.48%) OpenShift
4 9 (7.76%) AWS
5 8 (6.90%) PaaS
6 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.59%) GitHub
8 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.72%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.86%) GCP
9 1 (0.86%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (31.90%) DNS
2 25 (21.55%) Cisco IOS
3 23 (19.83%) Firewall
4 22 (18.97%) Cisco Firepower
4 22 (18.97%) Cisco ISE
4 22 (18.97%) Junos
5 12 (10.34%) VSAN
6 10 (8.62%) VLAN
7 9 (7.76%) DHCP
8 8 (6.90%) Skype
8 8 (6.90%) VPN
9 6 (5.17%) SAN
10 5 (4.31%) NX-OS
11 4 (3.45%) Network Security
11 4 (3.45%) PCoIP
11 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
12 3 (2.59%) BGP
12 3 (2.59%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (2.59%) MPLS
12 3 (2.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.59%) Banking
6 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Legal
6 1 (0.86%) Police
6 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (25.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 24 (20.69%) Architect
3 23 (19.83%) Network Engineer
4 21 (18.10%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 21 (18.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (18.10%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (16.38%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 18 (15.52%) Support Engineer
7 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (13.79%) 3rd Line Support
8 16 (13.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 15 (12.93%) Network Support
9 15 (12.93%) Network Support Engineer
10 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (7.76%) VMware Engineer
10 9 (7.76%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
12 7 (6.03%) Senior
13 6 (5.17%) VMware Architect
14 4 (3.45%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.59%) LDAP
1 3 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.72%) ModSecurity
2 2 (1.72%) REST
3 1 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.86%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.97%) PKI
2 16 (13.79%) Replication
3 12 (10.34%) Clustering
4 9 (7.76%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.31%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.59%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (56.03%) Windows
2 46 (39.66%) Windows Server
3 35 (30.17%) Linux
4 15 (12.93%) Windows 10
5 8 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (5.17%) VMS
7 4 (3.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.86%) CentOS
9 1 (0.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.14%) ITSM
2 24 (20.69%) Service Management
3 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (14.66%) High Availability
5 16 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (13.79%) Migration
5 16 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
5 16 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 12 (10.34%) DevOps
7 11 (9.48%) Agile
7 11 (9.48%) Containerisation
7 11 (9.48%) ITIL
7 11 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (9.48%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (7.76%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (7.76%) Change Management
8 9 (7.76%) Load Balancing
9 8 (6.90%) Roadmaps
10 7 (6.03%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.72%) PowerShell
2 12 (10.34%) Python
3 11 (9.48%) Bash
4 3 (2.59%) SQL
5 1 (0.86%) Perl
5 1 (0.86%) PHP
5 1 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (81.03%) Security Cleared
2 49 (42.24%) DV Cleared
3 42 (36.21%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (9.48%) VCAP
6 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (6.90%) MCSA
7 8 (6.90%) MCSE
8 1 (0.86%) APMG
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.86%) Degree
8 1 (0.86%) GIAC
8 1 (0.86%) GSEC
8 1 (0.86%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.59%) NCSC
1 3 (2.59%) NIST
2 2 (1.72%) GDPR
2 2 (1.72%) SLA
3 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (58.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (41.38%) VMware ESXi
3 47 (40.52%) vSphere
4 43 (37.07%) VMware NSX
5 42 (36.21%) Active Directory
6 27 (23.28%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (9.48%) Docker
8 6 (5.17%) Firmware
9 5 (4.31%) Hyper-V
10 4 (3.45%) vCloud
10 4 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (2.59%) BitLocker
11 3 (2.59%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.72%) KVM
12 2 (1.72%) NFS
12 2 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (24.14%) Ansible
2 19 (16.38%) Terraform
3 14 (12.07%) Kubernetes
4 10 (8.62%) Argo
5 8 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (6.90%) SCOM
6 7 (6.03%) vMotion
6 7 (6.03%) VxRail
7 6 (5.17%) SCCM
7 6 (5.17%) WSUS
8 3 (2.59%) Grafana
8 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.59%) OPNET
8 3 (2.59%) PowerCLI
8 3 (2.59%) Puppet
9 2 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.72%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.72%) NetApp OnCommand
10 1 (0.86%) Podman
Vendors
1 90 (77.59%) VMware
2 47 (40.52%) Cisco
3 39 (33.62%) Microsoft
4 29 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 22 (18.97%) Juniper
6 17 (14.66%) Veeam
7 14 (12.07%) Dell
8 13 (11.21%) Red Hat
9 9 (7.76%) Pure Storage
10 8 (6.90%) NetApp
11 5 (4.31%) Broadcom
11 5 (4.31%) Citrix
12 3 (2.59%) Splunk
13 2 (1.72%) Aruba
13 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.72%) Google
13 2 (1.72%) Wyse
14 1 (0.86%) EMC
14 1 (0.86%) F5
14 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto