vCenter Server Contracts in Lancashire

VMware vCenter Server
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 4 0 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.02% - 5.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.05% - 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
North West median daily rate £388 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -8.82% -2.86% +5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £26.46
25th Percentile - - £29.30
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £48.00
90th Percentile - - £49.52
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - £42.50

All Systems Management Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 19 11 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.60% 5.07% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 19
10th Percentile £375 £344 £351
25th Percentile £406 £373 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £426 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -12.11% -25.38%
75th Percentile £522 £480 £688
90th Percentile £544 £528 £700
North West median daily rate £473 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -1.56% -8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 30
10th Percentile - £30.24 £29.30
25th Percentile - £36.22 £41.25
Median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.29% - -8.01%
75th Percentile - - £47.96
90th Percentile - - £74.73
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +37.29% +8.66% +116.40%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in Lancashire

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in Lancashire

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in Lancashire

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Burnley - 3 - -
Preston - 1 £350 -
vCenter Server
North West

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Industrial Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Storage Management
2 3 (75.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) E-Discovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Symantec
2 3 (75.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix