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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 434 500
Rank change year-on-year +5 +66 +27
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 103 77 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.08% 1.74% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 51 49
10th Percentile £413 £400 £345
25th Percentile £500 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £558 £613 £650
90th Percentile £588 £675 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £66.80 £74.40 -
25th Percentile £68.38 £88.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +40.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £86.32 - -
90th Percentile £88.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £78.50 £112.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -29.91% +60.00% +1.45%

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 4,944 4,419 5,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 14.24% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,835 3,985
10th Percentile £310 £313 £307
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £695 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 58 159
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.71 £17.74
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £24.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £36.83 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -22.99% +82.63%
75th Percentile £66.50 £61.88 £72.20
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.36 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.32 £27.13 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.13% -44.64% +90.59%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +11 42 £500 -13.04% 30
South West +3 18 £555 +5.71% 3
London +1 18 £520 +9.47% 7
North of England -47 13 £425 -10.53% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £413 - 1
East of England -9 6 £623 - 3
North West -24 6 £425 -10.53%
Midlands -28 3 £508 - 1
West Midlands -19 2 £365 -
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 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.88%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.94%) Confluence
4 2 (1.94%) IIS
5 1 (0.97%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.97%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.56%) Azure
2 11 (10.68%) OpenShift
3 9 (8.74%) AWS
4 6 (5.83%) IaaS
5 5 (4.85%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.88%) GitHub
7 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.94%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.97%) GCP
9 1 (0.97%) PaaS
9 1 (0.97%) Route 53
9 1 (0.97%) SaaS
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (37.86%) DNS
2 21 (20.39%) Cisco Firepower
2 21 (20.39%) Cisco IOS
2 21 (20.39%) Cisco ISE
2 21 (20.39%) Junos
3 20 (19.42%) Firewall
4 15 (14.56%) VSAN
5 9 (8.74%) DHCP
5 9 (8.74%) TCP/IP
6 8 (7.77%) SAN
6 8 (7.77%) Skype
7 6 (5.83%) VLAN
8 5 (4.85%) NAS
9 4 (3.88%) NX-OS
9 4 (3.88%) PCoIP
9 4 (3.88%) VPN
10 3 (2.91%) iSCSI
10 3 (2.91%) WAN
11 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 16 (15.53%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.83%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) GitLab
3 4 (3.88%) JIRA
4 3 (2.91%) Subversion
5 2 (1.94%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.94%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.56%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.71%) Finance
4 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Banking
6 3 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.94%) Electronics
7 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Legal
8 1 (0.97%) Police
8 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) Network Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 21 (20.39%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 20 (19.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (19.42%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 18 (17.48%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 18 (17.48%) Support Engineer
6 16 (15.53%) 3rd Line Support
6 16 (15.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 16 (15.53%) Architect
7 15 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (14.56%) Network Support
7 15 (14.56%) Network Support Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) VMware Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Senior
11 5 (4.85%) Developer
11 5 (4.85%) ETL Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Storage Engineer
12 4 (3.88%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.83%) REST
2 5 (4.85%) RESTful
3 4 (3.88%) JSON
3 4 (3.88%) Middleware
3 4 (3.88%) XML
4 3 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.94%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.94%) Node.js
5 2 (1.94%) pytest
6 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.97%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.53%) PKI
2 9 (8.74%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.77%) Replication
4 7 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.83%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.91%) Blog
7 3 (2.91%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.94%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 53 (51.46%) Windows
2 33 (32.04%) Linux
3 32 (31.07%) Windows Server
4 15 (14.56%) Windows 10
5 10 (9.71%) VMS
6 4 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.94%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.97%) CentOS
9 1 (0.97%) Solaris
9 1 (0.97%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.24%) ITSM
2 25 (24.27%) Service Management
3 21 (20.39%) Migration
4 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (17.48%) CI/CD
6 14 (13.59%) DevOps
6 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.65%) Containerisation
8 11 (10.68%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (10.68%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (9.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (9.71%) ITIL
10 9 (8.74%) High Availability
10 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (8.74%) Load Balancing
11 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (7.77%) RBAC
12 7 (6.80%) Agile
13 6 (5.83%) Change Management
13 6 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.27%) Python
2 18 (17.48%) PowerShell
3 11 (10.68%) Bash
4 9 (8.74%) SQL
5 4 (3.88%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.88%) VBA
6 3 (2.91%) C++
6 3 (2.91%) Go
6 3 (2.91%) Java
6 3 (2.91%) PHP
7 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.97%) Perl
8 1 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 61 (59.22%) Security Cleared
2 35 (33.98%) DV Cleared
3 25 (24.27%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.85%) Degree
5 5 (4.85%) VCAP
6 3 (2.91%) CCNA
6 3 (2.91%) CCNP
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.94%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.88%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.88%) GDPR
2 3 (2.91%) NCSC
3 2 (1.94%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (60.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (46.60%) VMware NSX
3 40 (38.83%) Active Directory
4 37 (35.92%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (33.01%) vSphere
6 25 (24.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (7.77%) Docker
8 6 (5.83%) Firmware
9 4 (3.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.94%) NFS
10 2 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.97%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (24.27%) Ansible
2 23 (22.33%) Terraform
3 11 (10.68%) Kubernetes
4 10 (9.71%) Argo
5 8 (7.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (4.85%) PowerCLI
6 5 (4.85%) WSUS
7 4 (3.88%) Control-M
7 4 (3.88%) SCOM
7 4 (3.88%) vMotion
7 4 (3.88%) vRealize
8 3 (2.91%) Grafana
8 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.91%) OPNET
8 3 (2.91%) Puppet
8 3 (2.91%) SCCM
9 2 (1.94%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.94%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.94%) NetApp OnCommand
Vendors
1 81 (78.64%) VMware
2 39 (37.86%) Cisco
3 36 (34.95%) Microsoft
4 28 (27.18%) SolarWinds
5 21 (20.39%) Juniper
6 13 (12.62%) Veeam
7 11 (10.68%) Red Hat
8 9 (8.74%) Dell
8 9 (8.74%) Pure Storage
9 6 (5.83%) Broadcom
9 6 (5.83%) F5
10 5 (4.85%) EMC
10 5 (4.85%) NetApp
11 4 (3.88%) Citrix
12 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
12 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.91%) Splunk
13 2 (1.94%) Aruba
13 2 (1.94%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.94%) SAP