vCenter Server Contracts in the South West

VMware vCenter Server
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 104 137
Rank change year-on-year +12 +33 -11
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 18 33 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.94% 1.19% 0.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.74% 8.21% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 10
10th Percentile - £463 £525
25th Percentile £525 £500 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.64% +2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £623
90th Percentile £688 £573 £656
England median daily rate £550 £525 £523
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.48% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.06% -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £72.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.84% +71.18% -

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 267 402 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.02% 14.51% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 308 368
10th Percentile £243 £254 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -2.23% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £690 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -2.38% -5.41% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 18
10th Percentile £17.13 £15.50 £19.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £59.88 £70.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% -5.13% +194.34%
75th Percentile £78.70 £74.44 £79.50
90th Percentile £80.59 £77.50 £86.50
England median hourly rate £54.50 £36.83 £49.63
% change year-on-year +47.97% -25.78% +120.56%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the South West

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the South West

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the South West over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the South West

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the South West

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Wiltshire +14 13 £575 +9.52% 5
Dorset - 4 £550 -
Gloucestershire +25 1 £555 +5.71% 3
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 8 (44.44%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
1 5 (27.78%) VSAN
2 3 (16.67%) Skype
3 2 (11.11%) BGP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (11.11%) DMVPN
3 2 (11.11%) OSPF
3 2 (11.11%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 4 (22.22%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Flash
2 4 (22.22%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) SOAP
3 2 (11.11%) ModSecurity
3 2 (11.11%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Clustering
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (16.67%) PKI
3 3 (16.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Service Management
2 13 (72.22%) NsoIT
2 13 (72.22%) Validation
3 12 (66.67%) System Testing
4 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (55.56%) Agile
6 9 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (38.89%) High Availability
7 7 (38.89%) Power Management
8 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
8 6 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
8 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
9 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
9 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (22.22%) Reverse Engineering
10 3 (16.67%) Design Patterns
10 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 2 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Bash
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (88.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (72.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (33.33%) CCNA
5 6 (33.33%) CCNP
5 6 (33.33%) Degree
5 6 (33.33%) Master's Degree
6 4 (22.22%) OCA
6 4 (22.22%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (22.22%) RHCA
6 4 (22.22%) RHCE
7 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (50.00%) VMware NSX
4 2 (11.11%) vSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
2 4 (22.22%) Puppet
3 3 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (16.67%) OPNET
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) Nessus
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) VxRail
4 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (66.67%) Cisco
3 8 (44.44%) Atlassian
4 4 (22.22%) Oracle
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) Dell