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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 410 418
Rank change year-on-year -36 +8 +75
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 196 104 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.89% 2.70% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 75 77
10th Percentile £380 £406 £325
25th Percentile £463 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £600
90th Percentile £725 £650 £608
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £48.40 £66.80 £65.18
25th Percentile £52.18 £68.38 £67.31
Median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +5.84% +71.18%
75th Percentile - £86.32 £76.31
90th Percentile - £88.30 £77.33
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £77.00 £72.75
% change year-on-year -12.38% +5.84% +58.12%

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 5,043 3,851 3,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 13.88% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,552 2,782
10th Percentile £310 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £710
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 60 67
10th Percentile £20.65 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £45.43 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.47 £51.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% +41.02% -31.11%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.63 £62.25
90th Percentile £84.72 £82.96 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +111.60% -17.05% -38.27%

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 23 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing vCenter Server in England over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

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 23 August 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 -7 88 £575 - 9
London -70 40 £500 -3.85% 5
North of England -50 36 £483 +15.34% 5
North West -34 20 £482 +24.26% 4
Yorkshire -39 15 £519 +20.77% 1
South West -48 12 £600 +6.67% 6
East of England -15 11 £545 -0.91% 2
Midlands -42 6 £563 +2.36% 1
West Midlands -46 6 £563 +23.06%
North East - 1 £500 -
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 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.06%) Confluence
2 6 (3.06%) nginx
3 5 (2.55%) Apache
4 4 (2.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.73%) Azure
2 14 (7.14%) IaaS
3 13 (6.63%) AWS
4 12 (6.12%) OpenShift
5 11 (5.61%) PaaS
6 8 (4.08%) GitHub
7 5 (2.55%) GCP
8 4 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (2.04%) Azure Stack
8 4 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.02%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.02%) Datadog
10 2 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.02%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.02%) OCI
11 1 (0.51%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 62 (31.63%) DNS
2 50 (25.51%) VSAN
3 25 (12.76%) Firewall
4 24 (12.24%) DHCP
5 15 (7.65%) SAN
6 13 (6.63%) VPN
7 12 (6.12%) NAS
7 12 (6.12%) VLAN
8 7 (3.57%) Network Security
8 7 (3.57%) SMTP
9 4 (2.04%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.04%) LAN
9 4 (2.04%) WAN
10 3 (1.53%) DMZ
10 3 (1.53%) NetScaler
10 3 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.02%) WLAN
12 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.53%) Big Data
3 3 (1.53%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.06%) JIRA
3 5 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (2.55%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.02%) Git
4 2 (1.02%) GitLab
4 2 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 36 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (3.06%) Finance
5 4 (2.04%) Banking
6 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.02%) Advertising
7 2 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (22.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (19.39%) VMware Engineer
3 26 (13.27%) Support Engineer
4 23 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (11.22%) Senior
6 21 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 19 (9.69%) Storage Engineer
8 17 (8.67%) Lead
9 14 (7.14%) Senior VMware Engineer
9 14 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (6.63%) Architect
11 11 (5.61%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Consultant
12 10 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) VMware Consultant
13 9 (4.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) Wintel Engineer
14 7 (3.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.80%) Terraform
2 5 (2.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (2.04%) REST
4 3 (1.53%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.02%) Flash
6 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.51%) LDAP
6 1 (0.51%) OAuth
6 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.51%) OpenID
6 1 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Clustering
2 23 (11.73%) PKI
3 20 (10.20%) Replication
4 16 (8.16%) Data Centre
4 16 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.10%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (5.10%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.08%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.08%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.08%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.53%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.53%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (1.53%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 117 (59.69%) Windows
2 91 (46.43%) Windows Server
3 39 (19.90%) Linux
4 13 (6.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.57%) VMS
6 6 (3.06%) Data ONTAP
6 6 (3.06%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.55%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (2.04%) SUSE
9 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.51%) Rocky
10 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (29.59%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (26.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (20.41%) High Availability
4 38 (19.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 36 (18.37%) ITSM
6 35 (17.86%) Change Management
7 33 (16.84%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (13.27%) Agile
8 26 (13.27%) Network Virtualisation
9 25 (12.76%) Migration
10 22 (11.22%) ITIL
11 21 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
12 19 (9.69%) DevOps
12 19 (9.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (9.18%) Load Balancing
13 18 (9.18%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (8.16%) CI/CD
14 16 (8.16%) Security Hardening
14 16 (8.16%) Service Management
14 16 (8.16%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.69%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.73%) Python
3 15 (7.65%) SQL
4 13 (6.63%) Bash
5 3 (1.53%) Java
6 1 (0.51%) Bicep
6 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (69.39%) Security Cleared
2 86 (43.88%) DV Cleared
3 52 (26.53%) SC Cleared
4 43 (21.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 30 (15.31%) VCAP
6 18 (9.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (7.14%) MCSA
8 11 (5.61%) MCSE
9 9 (4.59%) Degree
10 6 (3.06%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.04%) OCP
11 4 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.53%) CCA
12 3 (1.53%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.02%) NCDA
13 2 (1.02%) NCIE
14 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.10%) SLA
2 3 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.02%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) NCSC
4 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 154 (78.57%) VMware ESXi
2 151 (77.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 92 (46.94%) VMware NSX
4 83 (42.35%) vSphere
5 69 (35.20%) Active Directory
6 27 (13.78%) vCloud
7 26 (13.27%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (8.67%) Hyper-V
9 7 (3.57%) BitLocker
9 7 (3.57%) Firmware
9 7 (3.57%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (3.06%) Docker
11 5 (2.55%) UAG
12 4 (2.04%) Terminal Services
13 3 (1.53%) NFS
14 2 (1.02%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (1.02%) SRDF
15 1 (0.51%) Samba
Systems Management
1 46 (23.47%) SCOM
2 42 (21.43%) Ansible
3 31 (15.82%) Kubernetes
4 17 (8.67%) vMotion
4 17 (8.67%) vRealize
5 15 (7.65%) PowerCLI
6 14 (7.14%) Avamar
7 9 (4.59%) NetBackup
7 9 (4.59%) Puppet
8 8 (4.08%) Argo
8 8 (4.08%) Grafana
8 8 (4.08%) VxRail
9 6 (3.06%) SCCM
10 5 (2.55%) Packer
11 4 (2.04%) Dell DRAC
11 4 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.04%) Nessus
11 4 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 196 (100.00%) VMware
2 51 (26.02%) Microsoft
3 28 (14.29%) Dell
4 20 (10.20%) Cisco
5 17 (8.67%) Broadcom
6 14 (7.14%) Citrix
6 14 (7.14%) NetApp
7 13 (6.63%) SolarWinds
7 13 (6.63%) Thales
7 13 (6.63%) Veeam
8 9 (4.59%) Pure Storage
8 9 (4.59%) Red Hat
8 9 (4.59%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.57%) EMC
10 6 (3.06%) Remedy
10 6 (3.06%) Splunk
10 6 (3.06%) Tenable
11 5 (2.55%) Symantec
11 5 (2.55%) Tanium
11 5 (2.55%) Zerto