vCenter Server Contracts in England

VMware vCenter Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring vCenter Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vCenter Server over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 417 440
Rank change year-on-year +27 +23 +163
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 96 119 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.32% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.50% 2.65% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 85 130
10th Percentile £363 £322 £400
25th Percentile £513 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.77% +9.68%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £588
90th Percentile £656 £645 £654
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 29
10th Percentile - £65.18 £27.15
25th Percentile - £67.31 £29.30
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +71.18% +7.80%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £52.13
90th Percentile - £77.33 £85.50
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £44.25
% change year-on-year - +64.41% +12.24%

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 3,838 4,485 7,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.84% 12.20% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 3,294 5,282
10th Percentile £313 £270 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £617 £625 £684
90th Percentile £713 £700 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.36% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 92 179
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.31
25th Percentile £21.39 £20.00 £25.71
Median hourly rate £33.25 £28.75 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.65% -46.11% +148.14%
75th Percentile £63.40 £51.44 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.89 £71.25 £83.15
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% -47.83% +162.68%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in England.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 31 May 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 West +42 34 £575 +9.52% 4
North of England +28 25 £350 +2.94% 5
South East +29 21 £575 -4.96% 7
North West +14 15 £350 -22.22% 4
London +47 12 £525 -12.50% 6
Yorkshire +21 10 £488 +47.73% 1
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
West Midlands -1 1 £550 +37.50% 2
Midlands -2 1 £550 +37.50% 2
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (21.88%) Confluence
2 15 (15.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.21%) IIS
4 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.04%) Anypoint
Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.54%) AWS
2 11 (11.46%) Azure
3 10 (10.42%) GCP
3 10 (10.42%) OpenShift
4 9 (9.38%) IaaS
4 9 (9.38%) PaaS
5 8 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 8 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.21%) GitHub
7 4 (4.17%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.04%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (28.13%) DNS
2 23 (23.96%) Firewall
3 19 (19.79%) DHCP
4 18 (18.75%) VSAN
5 14 (14.58%) SAN
6 10 (10.42%) SMTP
6 10 (10.42%) VPN
7 7 (7.29%) Network Security
8 6 (6.25%) BGP
8 6 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (6.25%) OSPF
8 6 (6.25%) VXLAN
9 5 (5.21%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (5.21%) DMVPN
9 5 (5.21%) NAS
10 3 (3.13%) iSCSI
10 3 (3.13%) LAN
10 3 (3.13%) WLAN
11 1 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (1.04%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (9.38%) Big Data
1 9 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (21.88%) JIRA
2 16 (16.67%) Git
3 14 (14.58%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.46%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.17%) GitLab
6 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.17%) Finance
3 4 (4.17%) Legal
4 2 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (19.79%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 17 (17.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (9.38%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Administrator
6 8 (8.33%) VMWare Administrator
6 8 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Wintel Administrator
7 7 (7.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior
10 4 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Industrial Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) Flash
2 12 (12.50%) REST
3 10 (10.42%) SOAP
4 5 (5.21%) Middleware
4 5 (5.21%) Spine.js
5 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.04%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.25%) Clustering
2 17 (17.71%) Data Centre
3 13 (13.54%) PKI
4 9 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 53 (55.21%) Windows
2 52 (54.17%) Windows Server
3 38 (39.58%) Linux
4 19 (19.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (15.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (9.38%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (5.21%) Ubuntu
9 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (4.17%) Unix
10 3 (3.13%) VMS
10 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
11 1 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (1.04%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (35.42%) Agile
3 31 (32.29%) Service Management
4 30 (31.25%) High Availability
5 29 (30.21%) Validation
6 28 (29.17%) Network Virtualisation
6 28 (29.17%) System Testing
7 27 (28.13%) NsoIT
8 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (19.79%) Waterfall
10 16 (16.67%) Power Management
11 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
11 14 (14.58%) Critical Thinking
12 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (12.50%) DevOps
14 11 (11.46%) Configuration Management
14 11 (11.46%) Deployment Automation
14 11 (11.46%) ITIL
14 11 (11.46%) Migration
14 11 (11.46%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 22 (22.92%) Python
3 11 (11.46%) Bash
4 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.13%) SQL
6 1 (1.04%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 65 (67.71%) Security Cleared
2 45 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 38 (39.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 27 (28.13%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (25.00%) Degree
6 22 (22.92%) DV Cleared
7 17 (17.71%) CCNP
8 12 (12.50%) CCNA
8 12 (12.50%) Master's Degree
9 11 (11.46%) OCA
9 11 (11.46%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (10.42%) RHCA
10 10 (10.42%) RHCE
11 7 (7.29%) MCSE
12 4 (4.17%) VCAP
13 3 (3.13%) MCSA
14 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (63.54%) VMware ESXi
3 41 (42.71%) Active Directory
4 32 (33.33%) VMware NSX
5 23 (23.96%) vSphere
6 22 (22.92%) Hyper-V
7 18 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (10.42%) BitLocker
8 10 (10.42%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (10.42%) Terminal Services
9 9 (9.38%) Docker
10 4 (4.17%) Firmware
11 1 (1.04%) KVM
Systems Management
1 32 (33.33%) Ansible
2 20 (20.83%) Puppet
3 17 (17.71%) vMotion
4 13 (13.54%) WSUS
5 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
6 10 (10.42%) Nagios
6 10 (10.42%) Progress Chef
7 7 (7.29%) PowerCLI
8 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (6.25%) SCOM
8 6 (6.25%) Terraform
8 6 (6.25%) vRealize
9 5 (5.21%) NetApp OnCommand
9 5 (5.21%) SCCM
9 5 (5.21%) VxRail
10 3 (3.13%) Backup Exec
10 3 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (3.13%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (1.04%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 89 (92.71%) VMware
2 34 (35.42%) Cisco
3 33 (34.38%) Microsoft
4 20 (20.83%) Atlassian
4 20 (20.83%) Citrix
5 15 (15.63%) Symantec
6 11 (11.46%) HP
6 11 (11.46%) Oracle
7 9 (9.38%) Google
8 7 (7.29%) Dell
9 6 (6.25%) SolarWinds
9 6 (6.25%) Veeam
10 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.08%) IBM
11 2 (2.08%) Juniper
11 2 (2.08%) McAfee
11 2 (2.08%) NETGEAR
11 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.08%) TP-LINK
12 1 (1.04%) Sun