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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 374 432
Rank change year-on-year -55 +58 +32
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 153 105 118
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.75% 2.71% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 84 77
10th Percentile £429 £404 £325
25th Percentile £485 £513 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +4.32% +2.48%
75th Percentile £573 £613 £610
90th Percentile £670 £675 £672
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.23% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £46.40 - £65.18
25th Percentile £47.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £48.50 £65.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% -10.65% +58.15%
75th Percentile £49.50 - £76.31
90th Percentile £49.80 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +46.74%

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 5,555 3,881 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.60% 15.87% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,824 2,657 3,273
10th Percentile £313 £315 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £747 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 41 128
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.24 £21.05 £17.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £77.50 £68.19
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.45 £31.75
% change year-on-year +107.94% -16.69% -44.78%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -17 54 £531 -7.65% 10
North of England -46 45 £469 +7.25% 15
London -36 27 £525 - 10
North West -35 24 £458 +30.86% 9
Yorkshire -48 21 £500 +2.56% 6
South West -52 15 £538 -4.44% 5
East of England -28 7 £563 +2.27%
West Midlands -51 5 £532 -3.36% 1
Midlands -62 5 £532 -3.36% 2
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 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.26%) OpenShift
2 27 (17.65%) Azure
3 22 (14.38%) IaaS
4 20 (13.07%) GitHub
5 16 (10.46%) PaaS
6 13 (8.50%) AWS
7 7 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.61%) Azure Stack
8 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.96%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.31%) GCP
10 2 (1.31%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.65%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.65%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 41 (26.80%) DNS
2 32 (20.92%) Firewall
3 23 (15.03%) VSAN
4 17 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
4 17 (11.11%) VPN
5 15 (9.80%) VLAN
6 11 (7.19%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (7.19%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (7.19%) Junos
6 11 (7.19%) Network Security
7 10 (6.54%) DHCP
8 7 (4.58%) SMTP
9 6 (3.92%) BGP
9 6 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (3.92%) MPLS
9 6 (3.92%) NX-OS
9 6 (3.92%) TACACS
10 4 (2.61%) NAS
10 4 (2.61%) SAN
11 2 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.92%) DB2
2 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.96%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (16.99%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.31%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 37 (24.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.84%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.88%) Finance
4 7 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Banking
5 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.31%) Advertising
6 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.31%) Legal
7 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Police
7 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (21.57%) Architect
2 30 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (15.03%) VMware Engineer
4 22 (14.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 13 (8.50%) Network Engineer
6 12 (7.84%) VMware Architect
7 11 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 10 (6.54%) Lead
8 10 (6.54%) Senior
9 9 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
9 9 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Support Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Migration Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.80%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (3.92%) LDAP
3 4 (2.61%) Flash
4 2 (1.31%) REST
5 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Clustering
2 22 (14.38%) PKI
3 21 (13.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (11.76%) Replication
5 17 (11.11%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (3.92%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.96%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (38.56%) Windows
2 46 (30.07%) Windows Server
3 45 (29.41%) Linux
4 13 (8.50%) VMS
5 9 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (5.88%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.92%) AIX
6 6 (3.92%) Unix
6 6 (3.92%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.61%) SUSE
9 3 (1.96%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.96%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.65%) CentOS
11 1 (0.65%) Solaris
11 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.10%) High Availability
2 40 (26.14%) Migration
3 39 (25.49%) Disaster Recovery
4 34 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (18.30%) CI/CD
6 28 (18.30%) Containerisation
6 28 (18.30%) DevOps
7 25 (16.34%) Load Balancing
7 25 (16.34%) Network Virtualisation
8 21 (13.73%) Agile
9 20 (13.07%) RBAC
10 17 (11.11%) Change Management
11 16 (10.46%) Capacity Planning
11 16 (10.46%) ITSM
12 15 (9.80%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (8.50%) Data Migration
14 12 (7.84%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (7.19%) Virtual Environments
16 10 (6.54%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 49 (32.03%) PowerShell
2 38 (24.84%) Python
3 33 (21.57%) Bash
4 7 (4.58%) SQL
5 4 (2.61%) PHP
6 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (58.17%) Security Cleared
2 50 (32.68%) DV Cleared
3 40 (26.14%) SC Cleared
4 25 (16.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (11.11%) VCAP
6 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.23%) MCSA
7 8 (5.23%) MCSE
8 7 (4.58%) Degree
9 5 (3.27%) OCP
9 5 (3.27%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (2.61%) APMG
10 4 (2.61%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.61%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.61%) GIAC
10 4 (2.61%) SSCP
11 3 (1.96%) GSEC
12 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) NIST
2 6 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.61%) SLA
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
System Software
1 89 (58.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 85 (55.56%) vSphere
3 74 (48.37%) VMware ESXi
4 61 (39.87%) VMware NSX
5 33 (21.57%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (16.99%) Active Directory
7 21 (13.73%) Hyper-V
8 14 (9.15%) Docker
9 11 (7.19%) KVM
10 9 (5.88%) vCloud
11 8 (5.23%) Firmware
12 7 (4.58%) BitLocker
12 7 (4.58%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (1.31%) NFS
13 2 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.65%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.65%) UAG
Systems Management
1 53 (34.64%) Ansible
2 34 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 31 (20.26%) Terraform
4 27 (17.65%) Argo
5 15 (9.80%) Grafana
5 15 (9.80%) PowerCLI
6 11 (7.19%) vMotion
6 11 (7.19%) VxRail
7 10 (6.54%) SCOM
8 9 (5.88%) vRealize
9 6 (3.92%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (3.92%) Puppet
9 6 (3.92%) SCCM
10 5 (3.27%) NetBackup
11 4 (2.61%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (1.31%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (1.31%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 131 (85.62%) VMware
2 31 (20.26%) Microsoft
3 30 (19.61%) Cisco
4 26 (16.99%) Pure Storage
4 26 (16.99%) Red Hat
5 16 (10.46%) Dell
6 15 (9.80%) Splunk
7 12 (7.84%) SolarWinds
7 12 (7.84%) Veeam
8 11 (7.19%) Broadcom
8 11 (7.19%) Juniper
8 11 (7.19%) NetApp
9 9 (5.88%) Citrix
10 6 (3.92%) IBM
11 4 (2.61%) Veritas
11 4 (2.61%) Zerto
12 3 (1.96%) Google
13 2 (1.31%) Aruba
13 2 (1.31%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.31%) Wyse