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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 449 498
Rank change year-on-year +42 +49 +64
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 94 84 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.15% 1.88% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 64 70
10th Percentile £409 £325 £374
25th Percentile £491 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -3.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £608 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £66.80 - £41.25
25th Percentile £68.38 - £43.32
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £49.52
75th Percentile £86.32 - £60.19
90th Percentile £88.30 - £71.88
UK median hourly rate £77.00 - £49.52

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 4,367 4,465 6,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 13.66% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,056 4,481
10th Percentile £300 £307 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 159
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.15
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £25.73
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -20.00% +109.12%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.25
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.83
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +30 30 £550 -9.09% 12
North of England +1 23 £419 +11.67% 4
London +32 19 £520 +30.00% 4
South West +12 17 £555 +5.71% 7
Yorkshire - 12 £413 - 2
North West -14 11 £425 +13.33% 2
East of England +8 4 £623 -
Midlands -18 2 £508 +69.45% 4
West Midlands -18 1 £365 +21.87%
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 4
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.26%) IIS
3 3 (3.19%) Confluence
3 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.13%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.06%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.06%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.77%) AWS
2 10 (10.64%) GCP
2 10 (10.64%) OpenShift
3 9 (9.57%) IaaS
3 9 (9.57%) PaaS
4 8 (8.51%) Azure
5 5 (5.32%) Nutanix
6 4 (4.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.06%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.06%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.06%) Route 53
8 1 (1.06%) SaaS
8 1 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (38.30%) DNS
2 21 (22.34%) Firewall
3 17 (18.09%) DHCP
4 16 (17.02%) VSAN
5 15 (15.96%) SAN
6 12 (12.77%) VPN
7 10 (10.64%) SMTP
8 9 (9.57%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (9.57%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (9.57%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (9.57%) Junos
8 9 (9.57%) NAS
9 7 (7.45%) TCP/IP
10 6 (6.38%) Skype
11 4 (4.26%) iSCSI
11 4 (4.26%) LAN
11 4 (4.26%) VLAN
12 3 (3.19%) Network Security
12 3 (3.19%) WLAN
13 2 (2.13%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (9.57%) Big Data
2 9 (9.57%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (9.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Git
1 11 (11.70%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.51%) GitLab
3 5 (5.32%) JIRA
4 3 (3.19%) Subversion
5 2 (2.13%) Mercurial
5 2 (2.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (24.47%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.77%) Finance
3 11 (11.70%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.13%) Electronics
6 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (25.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 18 (19.15%) 3rd Line Support
3 18 (19.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 18 (19.15%) Support Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Network Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) VMware Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Network Support
8 8 (8.51%) Network Support Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) VMware Specialist
10 5 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) Middleware
2 5 (5.32%) REST
2 5 (5.32%) RESTful
3 4 (4.26%) JSON
3 4 (4.26%) XML
4 2 (2.13%) ModSecurity
4 2 (2.13%) Node.js
4 2 (2.13%) pytest
5 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.21%) Data Centre
2 17 (18.09%) PKI
3 12 (12.77%) Clustering
4 7 (7.45%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.38%) Private Cloud
5 6 (6.38%) Replication
6 3 (3.19%) Blog
6 3 (3.19%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.13%) e-Learning
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 57 (60.64%) Windows
2 41 (43.62%) Linux
3 40 (42.55%) Windows Server
4 10 (10.64%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.51%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (7.45%) Ubuntu
6 7 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (4.26%) VMS
7 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.06%) CentOS
10 1 (1.06%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (17.02%) Service Management
3 14 (14.89%) Migration
4 13 (13.83%) ITSM
4 13 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (12.77%) ITIL
6 11 (11.70%) Agile
6 11 (11.70%) DevOps
6 11 (11.70%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (9.57%) Machine Learning
7 9 (9.57%) Software Deployment
8 7 (7.45%) CI/CD
8 7 (7.45%) High Availability
8 7 (7.45%) Kanban
8 7 (7.45%) Roadmaps
8 7 (7.45%) Scrum
8 7 (7.45%) Storage Management
9 6 (6.38%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.53%) PowerShell
2 20 (21.28%) Python
3 10 (10.64%) SQL
4 6 (6.38%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.26%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.26%) VBA
6 3 (3.19%) C++
6 3 (3.19%) Go
6 3 (3.19%) Java
6 3 (3.19%) PHP
7 2 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (56.38%) Security Cleared
2 34 (36.17%) DV Cleared
3 19 (20.21%) SC Cleared
4 15 (15.96%) Degree
5 7 (7.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.26%) CCNP
8 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.19%) CCNA
9 3 (3.19%) VCAP
10 2 (2.13%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
11 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.06%) OCA
11 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (1.06%) RHCA
11 1 (1.06%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.26%) SLA
2 3 (3.19%) NCSC
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 66 (70.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (58.51%) VMware ESXi
3 47 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 33 (35.11%) VMware NSX
5 25 (26.60%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (24.47%) vSphere
7 14 (14.89%) Hyper-V
8 10 (10.64%) BitLocker
8 10 (10.64%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (10.64%) Terminal Services
9 9 (9.57%) Docker
10 4 (4.26%) Firmware
11 2 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (1.06%) KVM
Systems Management
1 28 (29.79%) Ansible
2 16 (17.02%) vMotion
3 13 (13.83%) Puppet
4 11 (11.70%) Kubernetes
5 10 (10.64%) Terraform
6 9 (9.57%) Nagios
6 9 (9.57%) vRealize
7 6 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (6.38%) PowerCLI
7 6 (6.38%) WSUS
8 4 (4.26%) Control-M
8 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (4.26%) NetApp OnCommand
9 3 (3.19%) Backup Exec
9 3 (3.19%) OPNET
10 2 (2.13%) SCCM
10 2 (2.13%) SCOM
10 2 (2.13%) VxRail
11 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 81 (86.17%) VMware
2 45 (47.87%) Microsoft
3 30 (31.91%) Cisco
4 16 (17.02%) Citrix
5 15 (15.96%) SolarWinds
6 12 (12.77%) Symantec
6 12 (12.77%) Veeam
7 10 (10.64%) HP
8 9 (9.57%) Google
8 9 (9.57%) Juniper
9 6 (6.38%) Dell
10 5 (5.32%) EMC
10 5 (5.32%) F5
11 4 (4.26%) NetApp
12 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.13%) Broadcom
13 2 (2.13%) CheckPoint
13 2 (2.13%) IBM
13 2 (2.13%) Palo Alto
13 2 (2.13%) SAP