vCenter Server Contracts in the North West

VMware vCenter Server
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 123 121
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +42
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 15 10 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.77% 0.38% 1.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.12% 3.82% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £313 £346 £366
25th Percentile £322 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £444
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +1.41% +2.60%
75th Percentile - £541 £500
90th Percentile £538 £584 £545
England median daily rate £556 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +5.95% +0.96% +10.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 24
10th Percentile - - £26.28
25th Percentile - - £29.30
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £49.43
90th Percentile - - £51.35
England median hourly rate - £72.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +71.18% -15.84%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 293 262 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.12% 9.89% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 188 367
10th Percentile £260 £212 £325
25th Percentile £378 £375 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £658 £677
England median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 44
10th Percentile £55.33 £16.64 £16.25
25th Percentile £62.86 - £21.91
Median hourly rate £63.40 £17.72 £29.65
Median % change year-on-year +257.79% -40.24% +36.13%
75th Percentile £84.69 £59.38 £47.25
90th Percentile £88.18 £93.00 £52.13
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.77 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.56% -50.92% +144.19%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the North West

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the North West

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the North West

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the North West

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Cheshire -4 7 £338 -41.30% 4
Lancashire - 7 £438 - 2
Manchester +17 1 - - 5
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (26.67%) IIS
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (26.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DHCP
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
1 7 (46.67%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) LAN
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 3 (20.00%) WLAN
3 1 (6.67%) VSAN
General
1 4 (26.67%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) VMWare Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Wintel Administrator
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Industrial Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
1 14 (93.33%) Windows Server
1 14 (93.33%) Windows Server 2019
2 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 11 (73.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (46.67%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Unix
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) High Availability
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 7 (46.67%) Patch Management
2 7 (46.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) E-Discovery
3 4 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (26.67%) RBAC
3 4 (26.67%) Resource Management
4 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Data Management
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (26.67%) MCSE
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Active Directory
2 12 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (53.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (46.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) WSUS
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (26.67%) NetApp OnCommand
2 4 (26.67%) vMotion
3 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) Symantec
4 3 (20.00%) Veeam