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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 374 445
Rank change year-on-year -60 +71 +9
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 150 98 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.74% 2.55% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 79 68
10th Percentile £425 £395 £324
25th Percentile £483 £513 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £569 £619 £611
90th Percentile £650 £678 £668
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% -
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 5,469 3,850 4,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.58% 15.86% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,775 2,619 3,261
10th Percentile £313 £313 £250
25th Percentile £413 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 39 131
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.68 £21.05 £18.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £57.75
90th Percentile £77.28 £77.74 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year +115.69% -20.93% -41.36%

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 25 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 25 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 -13 55 £513 -10.87% 10
North of England -48 45 £469 +7.25% 15
London -45 25 £528 +0.48% 10
North West -30 24 £458 +30.86% 9
Yorkshire -41 21 £500 +2.56% 6
South West -46 13 £535 -5.93% 5
East of England -31 7 £563 +2.27%
West Midlands -48 5 £532 -3.36% 1
Midlands -64 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 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.67%) OpenShift
2 25 (16.67%) Azure
3 22 (14.67%) IaaS
4 20 (13.33%) GitHub
5 16 (10.67%) PaaS
6 13 (8.67%) AWS
7 7 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.67%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.00%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.33%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.33%) GCP
10 2 (1.33%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.67%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 41 (27.33%) DNS
2 28 (18.67%) Firewall
3 20 (13.33%) VSAN
4 19 (12.67%) Cisco IOS
5 15 (10.00%) VPN
6 13 (8.67%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (8.67%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (8.67%) Junos
7 11 (7.33%) VLAN
8 10 (6.67%) DHCP
9 9 (6.00%) Network Security
10 7 (4.67%) SMTP
11 6 (4.00%) BGP
11 6 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (4.00%) MPLS
11 6 (4.00%) NX-OS
11 6 (4.00%) TACACS
12 4 (2.67%) NAS
12 4 (2.67%) SAN
13 2 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.00%) DB2
2 6 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.00%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.33%) GitLab
3 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 37 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.00%) Finance
4 7 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Banking
5 6 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Police
7 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (22.67%) Architect
2 28 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (16.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 23 (15.33%) VMware Engineer
5 15 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 13 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (8.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 12 (8.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 12 (8.00%) VMware Architect
8 11 (7.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Senior
9 10 (6.67%) Support Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Lead
10 9 (6.00%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Wintel Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (4.67%) Network Support
12 7 (4.67%) Network Support Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (4.00%) LDAP
3 4 (2.67%) Flash
4 2 (1.33%) REST
5 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) PKI
2 21 (14.00%) Clustering
2 21 (14.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (11.33%) Cloud Native
4 16 (10.67%) Replication
5 8 (5.33%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (4.00%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (39.33%) Windows
2 48 (32.00%) Windows Server
3 43 (28.67%) Linux
4 11 (7.33%) VMS
5 9 (6.00%) Ubuntu
6 7 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (4.00%) AIX
7 6 (4.00%) Unix
7 6 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.00%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.33%) SUSE
10 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.67%) CentOS
11 1 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.67%) Solaris
11 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.67%) High Availability
2 38 (25.33%) Migration
3 37 (24.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 34 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (20.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (18.67%) CI/CD
6 28 (18.67%) Containerisation
6 28 (18.67%) DevOps
7 24 (16.00%) Load Balancing
8 23 (15.33%) Network Virtualisation
9 21 (14.00%) Agile
10 19 (12.67%) RBAC
11 18 (12.00%) ITSM
12 17 (11.33%) Change Management
13 16 (10.67%) Capacity Planning
13 16 (10.67%) Performance Optimisation
14 13 (8.67%) Data Migration
15 11 (7.33%) Performance Tuning
15 11 (7.33%) Service Management
15 11 (7.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 47 (31.33%) PowerShell
2 38 (25.33%) Python
3 33 (22.00%) Bash
4 7 (4.67%) SQL
5 4 (2.67%) PHP
6 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (58.67%) Security Cleared
2 49 (32.67%) DV Cleared
3 41 (27.33%) SC Cleared
4 24 (16.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (11.33%) VCAP
6 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (5.33%) MCSA
7 8 (5.33%) MCSE
8 7 (4.67%) Degree
9 5 (3.33%) OCP
9 5 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (2.67%) APMG
10 4 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.67%) GIAC
10 4 (2.67%) SSCP
11 3 (2.00%) GSEC
12 2 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.67%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) NIST
2 6 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (2.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 85 (56.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (54.67%) vSphere
3 69 (46.00%) VMware ESXi
4 61 (40.67%) VMware NSX
5 29 (19.33%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (18.67%) Active Directory
7 19 (12.67%) Hyper-V
8 14 (9.33%) Docker
9 11 (7.33%) KVM
10 9 (6.00%) vCloud
11 7 (4.67%) BitLocker
11 7 (4.67%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (4.00%) Firmware
13 2 (1.33%) NFS
13 2 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.67%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.67%) UAG
Systems Management
1 53 (35.33%) Ansible
2 34 (22.67%) Kubernetes
3 31 (20.67%) Terraform
4 27 (18.00%) Argo
5 15 (10.00%) Grafana
6 13 (8.67%) PowerCLI
7 11 (7.33%) vMotion
8 10 (6.67%) SCOM
9 9 (6.00%) vRealize
9 9 (6.00%) VxRail
10 6 (4.00%) IBM BigFix
10 6 (4.00%) Puppet
10 6 (4.00%) SCCM
11 5 (3.33%) NetBackup
12 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (2.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (1.33%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (1.33%) FortiGate
13 2 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 126 (84.00%) VMware
2 32 (21.33%) Cisco
2 32 (21.33%) Microsoft
3 26 (17.33%) Pure Storage
3 26 (17.33%) Red Hat
4 15 (10.00%) Splunk
5 14 (9.33%) Dell
5 14 (9.33%) SolarWinds
6 13 (8.67%) Juniper
7 11 (7.33%) Broadcom
8 10 (6.67%) Veeam
9 9 (6.00%) Citrix
9 9 (6.00%) NetApp
10 6 (4.00%) IBM
11 4 (2.67%) Veritas
12 3 (2.00%) Google
13 2 (1.33%) Aruba
13 2 (1.33%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.33%) Wyse
13 2 (1.33%) Zerto