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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 167 186
Rank change year-on-year +42 +19 +36
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 21 37 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 0.66% 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.34% 4.87% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 18
10th Percentile £550 £383 £363
25th Percentile £563 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +25.71% +8.76%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £530
90th Percentile £618 - £698
England median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +9.47%
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 - £72.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +71.18% -15.84%

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 393 760 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.40% 13.54% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 557 544
10th Percentile £260 £213 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £674 £700
England median daily rate £521 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.86% -8.70% +0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 21
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.98 £15.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £23.99 £34.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.97% -41.70% +173.26%
75th Percentile £25.99 £48.75 £73.71
90th Percentile £27.20 £49.88 £75.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £27.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.42% -50.45% +155.81%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +39 14 £575 +15.00% 4
Thames Valley +12 4 £580 -4.13% 9
Berkshire +2 4 £580 -4.13% 7
West Sussex +15 2 - - 2
Middlesex - 1 £500 -
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 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) GCP
1 8 (38.10%) IaaS
1 8 (38.10%) OpenShift
1 8 (38.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) DNS
1 11 (52.38%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) DHCP
2 8 (38.10%) SMTP
2 8 (38.10%) VPN
3 7 (33.33%) VSAN
4 1 (4.76%) BGP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Multicast
4 1 (4.76%) OSPF
4 1 (4.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (38.10%) Big Data
1 8 (38.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (38.10%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (38.10%) Support Engineer
4 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (9.52%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Clustering
2 10 (47.62%) Data Centre
3 8 (38.10%) PKI
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
1 14 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 9 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.76%) CentOS
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Machine Learning
2 8 (38.10%) Software Deployment
3 5 (23.81%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (14.29%) ITSM
4 3 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 3 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (9.52%) Migration
5 2 (9.52%) Power Management
5 2 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (4.76%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (4.76%) API Management
6 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (4.76%) High Availability
6 1 (4.76%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) Degree
4 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) VCAP
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 14 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (52.38%) Hyper-V
3 8 (38.10%) BitLocker
3 8 (38.10%) Docker
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (38.10%) Terminal Services
4 7 (33.33%) vSphere
5 5 (23.81%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.76%) Firmware
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Ansible
2 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (38.10%) Nagios
2 8 (38.10%) Puppet
2 8 (38.10%) vMotion
3 3 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (14.29%) SCCM
3 3 (14.29%) SCOM
3 3 (14.29%) WSUS
4 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) VMware
2 11 (52.38%) Symantec
3 8 (38.10%) Citrix
3 8 (38.10%) Google
3 8 (38.10%) HP
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (23.81%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Juniper
5 2 (9.52%) McAfee
5 2 (9.52%) NETGEAR
5 2 (9.52%) TP-LINK
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
6 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam