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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 432 481
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 +6
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 111 67 74
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.26% 1.71% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 45 50
10th Percentile £460 £370 £347
25th Percentile £500 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £675 £625
90th Percentile £638 £683 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -6.82% +7.84% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £66.80 £74.40 -
25th Percentile £68.38 £88.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% - -
75th Percentile £86.32 - -
90th Percentile £88.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £112.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +86.67% +15.10%

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 4,920 3,926 4,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.71% 14.51% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,396 2,550 3,509
10th Percentile £313 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -8.09%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 50 148
10th Percentile £18.42 £14.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.17 £21.01 £21.00
Median hourly rate £50.61 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +90.98% -42.62% +24.07%
75th Percentile £63.32 £61.88 £65.31
90th Percentile £80.60 £78.50 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +106.78% -47.64% +31.94%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +16 58 £500 -13.04% 16
South West -14 18 £555 +0.91% 4
London -10 14 £528 +17.22% 4
North of England -49 11 £456 +17.68% 5
North West -34 9 £456 +17.68% 2
East of England -16 6 £685 +14.17% 3
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 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 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.60%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.80%) IIS
5 1 (0.90%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.22%) Azure
2 13 (11.71%) IaaS
3 10 (9.01%) OpenShift
4 9 (8.11%) AWS
5 8 (7.21%) PaaS
6 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub
8 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.80%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.80%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.90%) GCP
9 1 (0.90%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (35.14%) DNS
2 25 (22.52%) Firewall
3 22 (19.82%) Cisco Firepower
3 22 (19.82%) Cisco IOS
3 22 (19.82%) Cisco ISE
3 22 (19.82%) Junos
4 12 (10.81%) VSAN
5 11 (9.91%) DHCP
6 10 (9.01%) VLAN
7 8 (7.21%) Skype
8 7 (6.31%) VPN
9 6 (5.41%) SAN
9 6 (5.41%) TCP/IP
10 5 (4.50%) NX-OS
11 4 (3.60%) PCoIP
12 3 (2.70%) NAS
12 3 (2.70%) SMTP
13 2 (1.80%) iSCSI
13 2 (1.80%) WAN
13 2 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.80%) GitLab
2 2 (1.80%) JIRA
General
1 18 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.70%) Banking
6 2 (1.80%) Finance
6 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Legal
7 1 (0.90%) Police
7 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (27.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 25 (22.52%) Network Engineer
3 24 (21.62%) Architect
4 22 (19.82%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 21 (18.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (18.92%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 19 (17.12%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 18 (16.22%) Support Engineer
8 16 (14.41%) 3rd Line Support
8 16 (14.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (13.51%) Network Support
9 15 (13.51%) Network Support Engineer
10 9 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (7.21%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (7.21%) VMware Engineer
12 7 (6.31%) Senior
13 6 (5.41%) VMware Architect
14 4 (3.60%) Infrastructure Architect
14 4 (3.60%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.80%) JSON
2 2 (1.80%) ModSecurity
2 2 (1.80%) REST
2 2 (1.80%) RESTful
2 2 (1.80%) XML
3 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.90%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) PKI
2 11 (9.91%) Replication
3 9 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.31%) Clustering
6 5 (4.50%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (55.86%) Windows
2 41 (36.94%) Windows Server
3 32 (28.83%) Linux
4 15 (13.51%) Windows 10
5 8 (7.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (5.41%) VMS
7 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.80%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.90%) CentOS
9 1 (0.90%) Solaris
9 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.03%) ITSM
2 26 (23.42%) Service Management
3 19 (17.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 18 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (14.41%) Migration
6 13 (11.71%) ITIL
7 12 (10.81%) CI/CD
7 12 (10.81%) DevOps
7 12 (10.81%) High Availability
8 11 (9.91%) Containerisation
8 11 (9.91%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (9.91%) Network Virtualisation
8 11 (9.91%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (9.91%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (9.01%) Agile
10 9 (8.11%) Change Management
10 9 (8.11%) Load Balancing
11 8 (7.21%) Roadmaps
12 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (6.31%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.71%) Python
3 11 (9.91%) Bash
4 5 (4.50%) SQL
5 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.80%) VBA
6 1 (0.90%) Perl
6 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (79.28%) Security Cleared
2 48 (43.24%) DV Cleared
3 36 (32.43%) SC Cleared
4 12 (10.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.31%) VCAP
6 4 (3.60%) MCSA
6 4 (3.60%) MCSE
7 3 (2.70%) Degree
8 2 (1.80%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) GDPR
2 3 (2.70%) NCSC
3 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.80%) SLA
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (53.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (38.74%) VMware NSX
3 42 (37.84%) Active Directory
3 42 (37.84%) vSphere
4 41 (36.94%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (19.82%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (9.91%) Docker
7 6 (5.41%) Firmware
8 5 (4.50%) Hyper-V
9 4 (3.60%) vCloud
9 4 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (2.70%) BitLocker
10 3 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.80%) NFS
11 2 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.90%) KVM
Systems Management
1 24 (21.62%) Ansible
2 18 (16.22%) Terraform
3 14 (12.61%) Kubernetes
4 10 (9.01%) Argo
5 8 (7.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (6.31%) SCOM
6 7 (6.31%) vMotion
6 7 (6.31%) VxRail
7 6 (5.41%) SCCM
7 6 (5.41%) WSUS
8 3 (2.70%) Grafana
8 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.70%) OPNET
8 3 (2.70%) Puppet
9 2 (1.80%) Control-M
9 2 (1.80%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.80%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.80%) NetApp OnCommand
9 2 (1.80%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 83 (74.77%) VMware
2 41 (36.94%) Cisco
3 39 (35.14%) Microsoft
4 29 (26.13%) SolarWinds
5 22 (19.82%) Juniper
6 17 (15.32%) Veeam
7 14 (12.61%) Dell
8 13 (11.71%) Red Hat
9 9 (8.11%) Pure Storage
10 8 (7.21%) NetApp
11 5 (4.50%) Broadcom
11 5 (4.50%) Citrix
12 3 (2.70%) EMC
12 3 (2.70%) Palo Alto
12 3 (2.70%) Splunk
13 2 (1.80%) Aruba
13 2 (1.80%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.80%) Google
13 2 (1.80%) Wyse