vCenter Server Contracts in the South East

VMware vCenter Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 133 164 199
Rank change year-on-year +31 +35 +20
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 26 41 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.86% 0.74% 0.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.14% 5.73% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 16
10th Percentile £541 £359 £363
25th Percentile £559 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +21.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £581
90th Percentile £675 £610 £738
England median daily rate £575 £530 £513
% change year-on-year +8.49% +3.41% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -10.65% +71.18% -20.56%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the South East.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +41 21 £575 +15.00% 7
Thames Valley +13 3 £580 -4.13% 3
Berkshire +4 3 £580 -4.13% 3
West Sussex +13 2 - - 2
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) OpenShift
2 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) GCP
2 8 (30.77%) IaaS
2 8 (30.77%) PaaS
3 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (26.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) DNS
2 10 (38.46%) Firewall
3 8 (30.77%) DHCP
3 8 (30.77%) SMTP
3 8 (30.77%) VPN
4 6 (23.08%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (30.77%) Big Data
1 8 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (42.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Support Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (7.69%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Clustering
2 10 (38.46%) Data Centre
3 8 (30.77%) PKI
4 7 (26.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (26.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
1 21 (80.77%) Windows Server
2 15 (57.69%) Linux
3 7 (26.92%) CentOS
3 7 (26.92%) Ubuntu
3 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (30.77%) DevOps
2 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 8 (30.77%) Software Deployment
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) Application Packaging
3 7 (26.92%) Change Control
3 7 (26.92%) DevSecOps
4 5 (19.23%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (11.54%) ITSM
5 3 (11.54%) Service Management
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Patch Management
6 2 (7.69%) Power Management
6 2 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (3.85%) Antivirus Management
7 1 (3.85%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (96.15%) Security Cleared
2 18 (69.23%) DV Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) Degree
4 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.85%) VCAP
5 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
3 13 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (50.00%) vSphere
4 11 (42.31%) Hyper-V
5 8 (30.77%) BitLocker
5 8 (30.77%) Docker
5 8 (30.77%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (30.77%) Terminal Services
6 5 (19.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Ansible
1 15 (57.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (30.77%) Nagios
2 8 (30.77%) Puppet
2 8 (30.77%) vMotion
3 7 (26.92%) Nessus
3 7 (26.92%) Terraform
4 3 (11.54%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (11.54%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (11.54%) SCCM
4 3 (11.54%) SCOM
4 3 (11.54%) WSUS
5 1 (3.85%) PowerCLI
5 1 (3.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (88.46%) VMware
2 15 (57.69%) Microsoft
3 11 (42.31%) Symantec
4 8 (30.77%) Citrix
4 8 (30.77%) Google
4 8 (30.77%) HP
5 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
6 5 (19.23%) SolarWinds
7 2 (7.69%) Juniper
7 2 (7.69%) McAfee
7 2 (7.69%) NETGEAR
7 2 (7.69%) TP-LINK
8 1 (3.85%) Veeam