vCenter Server Contracts in the North of England

VMware vCenter Server
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 164 184
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 23 21 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.44% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.76% 3.90% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 7
10th Percentile £316 £317 £291
25th Percentile - £320 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £370 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -15.43% +5.42%
75th Percentile £495 £538 £475
90th Percentile £534 £620 £515
England median daily rate £575 £530 £513
% change year-on-year +8.49% +3.41% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 23
10th Percentile - - £26.10
25th Percentile - - £29.30
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £49.46
90th Percentile - - £51.61
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.65% +71.18% -20.56%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 612 538 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.57% 11.28% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 379 635
10th Percentile £254 £239 £325
25th Percentile £379 £400 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -12.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £638
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 22 52
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.89 £17.53
25th Percentile £51.38 £17.72 £22.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £22.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% -40.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £74.50 £48.75 £50.17
90th Percentile £80.95 £80.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +23 14 £350 -39.13% 6
Yorkshire +9 9 £488 +43.38% 1
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.04%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
3 4 (17.39%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) SAN
2 10 (43.48%) DNS
3 6 (26.09%) DHCP
4 4 (17.39%) NAS
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) Network Security
5 3 (13.04%) WLAN
6 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
1 4 (17.39%) GitLab
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (17.39%) Legal
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Administrator
2 6 (26.09%) VMWare Administrator
2 6 (26.09%) Wintel Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Industrial Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (78.26%) Windows
1 18 (78.26%) Windows Server
2 14 (60.87%) Windows Server 2019
3 12 (52.17%) Linux
4 11 (47.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (43.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (17.39%) Unix
7 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (39.13%) Migration
3 7 (30.43%) High Availability
3 7 (30.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) ITIL
4 6 (26.09%) Patch Management
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) E-Discovery
6 4 (17.39%) Kanban
6 4 (17.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 4 (17.39%) RBAC
6 4 (17.39%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Asset Management
7 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
7 3 (13.04%) Data Management
7 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (13.04%) Proactive Maintenance
7 3 (13.04%) Resource Management
7 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (17.39%) MCSE
3 4 (17.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Active Directory
2 17 (73.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (69.57%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (43.48%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (34.78%) VMware NSX
6 6 (26.09%) Hyper-V
7 4 (17.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) WSUS
2 5 (21.74%) vRealize
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Backup Exec
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (13.04%) NetApp OnCommand
4 3 (13.04%) vMotion
5 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) VMware
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Citrix
4 4 (17.39%) Veeam
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco
5 3 (13.04%) Symantec
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat