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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 435 454 502
Rank change year-on-year +19 +48 +42
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 96 73 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.01% 1.66% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 47 50
10th Percentile £411 £400 £356
25th Percentile £488 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £547
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.59% -0.55%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £625
90th Percentile £588 £680 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £66.80 - £45.25
25th Percentile £68.38 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +79.20% -9.42%
75th Percentile £86.32 - £71.88
90th Percentile £88.30 - £76.75
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% +79.20% -9.42%

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 4,779 4,403 5,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.24% 14.16% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,181 2,863 4,174
10th Percentile £304 £316 £313
25th Percentile £412 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 50 155
10th Percentile £18.55 £19.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.13 £23.80 £26.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -24.83% +96.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.88 £74.06
90th Percentile £79.13 £75.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £35.08 £50.00
% change year-on-year -22.33% -29.84% +100.00%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +13 37 £500 -13.04% 31
South West +16 18 £555 +3.26% 2
London +8 15 £520 +9.47% 8
North of England -45 14 £425 -10.53% 9
Yorkshire - 8 £413 -
East of England -9 6 £623 -
North West -34 6 £425 -10.53% 9
Midlands -18 3 £508 - 3
West Midlands -16 2 £365 - 2
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 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.13%) Confluence
4 3 (3.13%) IIS
5 1 (1.04%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.71%) Azure
2 10 (10.42%) AWS
3 9 (9.38%) OpenShift
4 6 (6.25%) IaaS
5 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.21%) Nutanix
6 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.13%) GitHub
7 2 (2.08%) GCP
7 2 (2.08%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.04%) PaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Route 53
8 1 (1.04%) SaaS
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (36.46%) DNS
2 17 (17.71%) Cisco Firepower
2 17 (17.71%) Cisco IOS
2 17 (17.71%) Cisco ISE
2 17 (17.71%) Junos
3 16 (16.67%) Firewall
4 15 (15.63%) VSAN
5 9 (9.38%) DHCP
5 9 (9.38%) TCP/IP
6 8 (8.33%) SAN
6 8 (8.33%) Skype
7 6 (6.25%) VLAN
8 5 (5.21%) NAS
9 4 (4.17%) iSCSI
9 4 (4.17%) PCoIP
9 4 (4.17%) VPN
10 3 (3.13%) WAN
11 2 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.25%) Git
2 6 (6.25%) GitLab
3 5 (5.21%) JIRA
4 3 (3.13%) Subversion
5 2 (2.08%) Mercurial
5 2 (2.08%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (14.58%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.50%) Finance
2 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.08%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Electronics
6 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.08%) Marketing
6 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Network Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 17 (17.71%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 17 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
4 16 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 15 (15.63%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 15 (15.63%) Network Support
5 15 (15.63%) Network Support Engineer
6 14 (14.58%) Architect
7 8 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Senior
9 5 (5.21%) Developer
9 5 (5.21%) ETL Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) VMware Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) REST
2 5 (5.21%) RESTful
3 4 (4.17%) JSON
3 4 (4.17%) Middleware
3 4 (4.17%) XML
4 2 (2.08%) ModSecurity
4 2 (2.08%) Node.js
4 2 (2.08%) pytest
5 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) PKI
2 9 (9.38%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.29%) Replication
4 6 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.13%) Blog
7 3 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.08%) Clustering
8 2 (2.08%) e-Learning
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 52 (54.17%) Windows
2 34 (35.42%) Linux
3 31 (32.29%) Windows Server
4 15 (15.63%) Windows 10
5 7 (7.29%) VMS
6 5 (5.21%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.04%) CentOS
9 1 (1.04%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) Service Management
2 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (20.83%) ITSM
4 19 (19.79%) Migration
5 16 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (12.50%) DevOps
8 10 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.38%) Containerisation
9 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (9.38%) RBAC
10 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.33%) ITIL
11 7 (7.29%) Load Balancing
12 6 (6.25%) Agile
12 6 (6.25%) High Availability
13 5 (5.21%) Capacity Management
13 5 (5.21%) Data Protection
13 5 (5.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.00%) Python
2 14 (14.58%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.38%) SQL
4 8 (8.33%) Bash
5 4 (4.17%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.17%) VBA
6 3 (3.13%) C++
6 3 (3.13%) Go
6 3 (3.13%) Java
6 3 (3.13%) PHP
7 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (55.21%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.13%) DV Cleared
3 25 (26.04%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.17%) Degree
6 4 (4.17%) VCAP
7 3 (3.13%) CCNA
7 3 (3.13%) CCNP
8 2 (2.08%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.13%) GDPR
2 3 (3.13%) NCSC
2 3 (3.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (63.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (43.75%) VMware NSX
3 40 (41.67%) Active Directory
4 38 (39.58%) VMware ESXi
5 28 (29.17%) vSphere
6 25 (26.04%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (7.29%) Docker
8 4 (4.17%) Firmware
8 4 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
10 2 (2.08%) NFS
10 2 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (1.04%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (23.96%) Ansible
2 21 (21.88%) Terraform
3 8 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (8.33%) Argo
3 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.29%) vMotion
5 6 (6.25%) WSUS
6 5 (5.21%) PowerCLI
7 4 (4.17%) Control-M
7 4 (4.17%) vRealize
8 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.13%) NetApp OnCommand
8 3 (3.13%) OPNET
8 3 (3.13%) Puppet
9 2 (2.08%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (2.08%) FortiGate
9 2 (2.08%) VxRail
10 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (1.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 77 (80.21%) VMware
2 38 (39.58%) Cisco
2 38 (39.58%) Microsoft
3 24 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 17 (17.71%) Juniper
5 11 (11.46%) Veeam
6 9 (9.38%) Dell
7 8 (8.33%) Red Hat
8 7 (7.29%) Citrix
8 7 (7.29%) Pure Storage
9 6 (6.25%) F5
10 5 (5.21%) EMC
10 5 (5.21%) NetApp
11 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
11 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.08%) Aruba
12 2 (2.08%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.08%) CheckPoint
12 2 (2.08%) IBM
12 2 (2.08%) SAP