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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 397 433
Rank change year-on-year -40 +36 +43
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 179 99 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.04% 2.46% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 74 83
10th Percentile £413 £425 £321
25th Percentile £463 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £589 £590 £608
90th Percentile £650 £658 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £46.40 - £65.18
25th Percentile £47.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £72.75
75th Percentile £49.50 - £76.31
90th Percentile £49.80 - £77.33
UK median hourly rate £48.50 - £72.75
% change year-on-year - - +71.18%

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 5,885 4,027 4,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.43% 15.71% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 2,689 3,353
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £520
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.92% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 44 96
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.63 £16.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.34 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £48.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% +55.20% -43.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.49 £49.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.61 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £35.14 £32.50
% change year-on-year +57.25% +8.11% -43.48%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -25 60 £565 -1.74% 13
North of England -43 56 £483 +20.75% 2
North West -20 31 £466 +33.14% 1
London -56 31 £500 -4.76% 8
Yorkshire -38 24 £511 +4.72%
South West -45 14 £536 -6.74% 5
East of England -17 10 £569 +3.41% 1
West Midlands -46 8 £532 +16.17% 2
Midlands -53 8 £532 -3.36% 2
North East - 1 £500 - 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 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.68%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.64%) OpenShift
2 21 (11.73%) Azure
3 20 (11.17%) GitHub
4 17 (9.50%) IaaS
5 15 (8.38%) PaaS
6 10 (5.59%) AWS
7 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.79%) GCP
9 4 (2.23%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.23%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.68%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.12%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.12%) Datadog
11 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 51 (28.49%) DNS
2 34 (18.99%) VSAN
3 24 (13.41%) Firewall
4 21 (11.73%) VPN
5 18 (10.06%) DHCP
6 13 (7.26%) VLAN
7 12 (6.70%) Network Security
7 12 (6.70%) SAN
8 10 (5.59%) NAS
9 9 (5.03%) SMTP
10 6 (3.35%) BGP
10 6 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (3.35%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (3.35%) MPLS
10 6 (3.35%) TACACS
11 3 (1.68%) DMZ
11 3 (1.68%) LAN
11 3 (1.68%) NetScaler
11 3 (1.68%) WAN
11 3 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.35%) Db2
4 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.68%) Big Data
5 3 (1.68%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.12%) Git
2 2 (1.12%) GitLab
2 2 (1.12%) Subversion
3 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 37 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.03%) Finance
5 6 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.12%) Advertising
9 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (23.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (17.32%) VMware Engineer
3 23 (12.85%) Architect
4 19 (10.61%) Storage Engineer
4 19 (10.61%) Support Engineer
5 18 (10.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 17 (9.50%) Senior
7 16 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (7.82%) Wintel Engineer
9 11 (6.15%) Lead
9 11 (6.15%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) Consultant
10 9 (5.03%) VMware Architect
10 9 (5.03%) VMware Consultant
10 9 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (3.91%) LDAP
3 3 (1.68%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.68%) Flash
3 3 (1.68%) REST
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.56%) OpenID
4 1 (0.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.76%) Clustering
2 27 (15.08%) PKI
3 25 (13.97%) Replication
4 18 (10.06%) Cloud Native
5 17 (9.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (8.38%) Data Centre
7 11 (6.15%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (5.59%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (3.35%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.23%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.68%) EMC VMAX
12 3 (1.68%) EMC VNX
13 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 89 (49.72%) Windows
2 73 (40.78%) Windows Server
3 43 (24.02%) Linux
4 8 (4.47%) Ubuntu
4 8 (4.47%) VMS
5 7 (3.91%) Data ONTAP
5 7 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.91%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (3.35%) AIX
6 6 (3.35%) Unix
6 6 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.23%) SUSE
8 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.56%) CentOS
9 1 (0.56%) Rocky
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.93%) High Availability
2 48 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (26.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (24.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 38 (21.23%) Migration
6 30 (16.76%) Network Virtualisation
7 26 (14.53%) DevOps
8 25 (13.97%) Capacity Planning
9 23 (12.85%) Change Management
9 23 (12.85%) CI/CD
9 23 (12.85%) Load Balancing
10 21 (11.73%) ITSM
11 20 (11.17%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.50%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (8.94%) Project Delivery
13 16 (8.94%) RBAC
14 15 (8.38%) Agile
14 15 (8.38%) Data Migration
14 15 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (7.82%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.75%) PowerShell
2 33 (18.44%) Python
3 28 (15.64%) Bash
4 19 (10.61%) SQL
5 4 (2.23%) PHP
6 2 (1.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 113 (63.13%) Security Cleared
2 64 (35.75%) DV Cleared
3 52 (29.05%) SC Cleared
4 41 (22.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (14.53%) VCAP
6 19 (10.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (8.94%) MCSA
8 15 (8.38%) MCSE
9 11 (6.15%) Degree
10 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.35%) OCP
10 6 (3.35%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (2.23%) APMG
11 4 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.23%) GIAC
11 4 (2.23%) SSCP
12 3 (1.68%) CCA
12 3 (1.68%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (1.68%) GSEC
13 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.59%) SLA
2 9 (5.03%) NIST
3 7 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.12%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 133 (74.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 121 (67.60%) VMware ESXi
3 91 (50.84%) vSphere
4 75 (41.90%) VMware NSX
5 45 (25.14%) Active Directory
6 36 (20.11%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (15.64%) Hyper-V
8 19 (10.61%) vCloud
9 10 (5.59%) KVM
10 9 (5.03%) BitLocker
10 9 (5.03%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (4.47%) Docker
12 4 (2.23%) Terminal Services
12 4 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.68%) Firmware
13 3 (1.68%) NFS
13 3 (1.68%) UAG
14 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (1.12%) SRDF
15 1 (0.56%) Samba
Systems Management
1 56 (31.28%) Ansible
2 39 (21.79%) Kubernetes
3 29 (16.20%) SCOM
4 26 (14.53%) Terraform
5 20 (11.17%) Argo
6 15 (8.38%) Grafana
6 15 (8.38%) PowerCLI
6 15 (8.38%) vMotion
6 15 (8.38%) vRealize
7 10 (5.59%) Puppet
7 10 (5.59%) VxRail
8 9 (5.03%) Avamar
8 9 (5.03%) NetBackup
9 6 (3.35%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (3.35%) SCCM
10 4 (2.23%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.23%) Nessus
10 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 170 (94.97%) VMware
2 50 (27.93%) Microsoft
3 31 (17.32%) Cisco
4 23 (12.85%) Dell
5 21 (11.73%) Pure Storage
6 16 (8.94%) Citrix
6 16 (8.94%) NetApp
6 16 (8.94%) Red Hat
7 15 (8.38%) Veeam
8 12 (6.70%) Splunk
9 11 (6.15%) Broadcom
10 9 (5.03%) Thales
11 8 (4.47%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.35%) IBM
13 5 (2.79%) Google
13 5 (2.79%) Symantec
13 5 (2.79%) Tenable
14 4 (2.23%) Remedy
14 4 (2.23%) Veritas
14 4 (2.23%) Zerto