vCenter Server Contracts in the South East

VMware vCenter Server
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for vCenter Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vCenter Server over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 200 223
Rank change year-on-year +42 +23 -59
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 41 24 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 0.41% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.82% 2.94% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 33
10th Percentile £359 £363 £304
25th Percentile £475 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £513 £445
Median % change year-on-year +18.05% +15.17% +2.06%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £538
90th Percentile £610 £738 £574
England median daily rate £530 £516 £450
% change year-on-year +2.66% +14.72% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £42.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +71.18% -20.56% -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

vCenter Server is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 705 815 1,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.70% 13.97% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 594 784
10th Percentile £209 £308 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.44% +8.50% +6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.27 £13.05
25th Percentile £21.72 £47.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £61.38 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.94% +185.47% -23.89%
75th Percentile £49.06 £74.03 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.31 £68.00
England median hourly rate £26.38 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -54.12% +167.44% -8.92%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +33 33 £605 +24.10% 6
Berkshire +17 30 £605 +34.44% 4
Hampshire -1 6 £500 -20.00% 9
Buckinghamshire +26 3 £590 +18.00% 1
West Sussex - 1 £475 -
East Sussex - 1 £475 -
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 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Azure
2 13 (31.71%) OCI
3 3 (7.32%) IaaS
4 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (58.54%) DNS
2 22 (53.66%) DHCP
3 18 (43.90%) SAN
3 18 (43.90%) VSAN
4 16 (39.02%) Firewall
5 4 (9.76%) NAS
6 3 (7.32%) SNA
7 1 (2.44%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.44%) Skype
7 1 (2.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.76%) MySQL
2 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
General
1 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) VMware Expert
4 5 (12.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Server Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Support Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.20%) PKI
3 4 (9.76%) Fat Client
3 4 (9.76%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.44%) Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Windows
1 24 (58.54%) Windows Server
2 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2019
3 19 (46.34%) Linux
4 16 (39.02%) Windows 10
5 15 (36.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (34.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (31.71%) Windows XP
8 4 (9.76%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.44%) CentOS
9 1 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (36.59%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (34.15%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (34.15%) Server Management
4 13 (31.71%) Break/Fix
4 13 (31.71%) Converged Infrastructure
4 13 (31.71%) ITIL
4 13 (31.71%) Performance Monitoring
4 13 (31.71%) Proactive Monitoring
4 13 (31.71%) Project Management
4 13 (31.71%) Storage Management
5 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
5 10 (24.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.07%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (17.07%) DevOps
6 7 (17.07%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (17.07%) Time Management
6 7 (17.07%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.76%) Python
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (56.10%) Security Cleared
2 21 (51.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (36.59%) DV Cleared
4 14 (34.15%) Degree
5 13 (31.71%) CCNA
5 13 (31.71%) CCNP
5 13 (31.71%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 32 (78.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (60.98%) Active Directory
2 25 (60.98%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (36.59%) Hyper-V
4 14 (34.15%) VMware NSX
5 9 (21.95%) vCloud
6 6 (14.63%) vSphere
7 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (56.10%) WSUS
2 14 (34.15%) SCCM
3 13 (31.71%) EMC NetWorker
3 13 (31.71%) NetBackup
3 13 (31.71%) SCOM
4 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
5 7 (17.07%) Ansible
5 7 (17.07%) vRealize
6 5 (12.20%) Nessus
7 4 (9.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (9.76%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (9.76%) ZABBIX
8 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (7.32%) Terraform
9 2 (4.88%) Rancher
10 1 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (2.44%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (2.44%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (2.44%) vMotion
Vendors
1 41 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
3 18 (43.90%) Veeam
4 17 (41.46%) Oracle
5 14 (34.15%) Juniper
5 14 (34.15%) Symantec
6 13 (31.71%) 3PAR
6 13 (31.71%) Cisco
6 13 (31.71%) Dell
6 13 (31.71%) EMC
6 13 (31.71%) Extreme Networks
6 13 (31.71%) HP
6 13 (31.71%) Palo Alto
7 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.44%) Citrix
9 1 (2.44%) McAfee
9 1 (2.44%) NETGEAR
9 1 (2.44%) Qualys
9 1 (2.44%) Splunk