vCenter Server Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware vCenter Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 263 329
Rank change year-on-year -37 +66 -2
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 94 84 75
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.32% 4.05% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 40 43
10th Percentile £433 £411 £301
25th Percentile - £459 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £618
90th Percentile £620 £678 £725
UK median daily rate £509 £535 £510
% change year-on-year -4.86% +4.90% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £67.85 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile £88.78 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £112.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +86.67% -4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,831 2,076 2,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.50% 14.23% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,979 1,333 1,801
10th Percentile £262 £230 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.69% -4.57%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £606
90th Percentile £651 £656 £694
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 41 122
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.50 £16.59
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.64 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +111.95% -47.64% +53.50%
75th Percentile £67.00 £44.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.00 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £24.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +96.44% -47.64% +37.85%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vCenter Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCenter Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the UK excluding London

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCenter Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing vCenter Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for vCenter Server in the UK excluding London

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
South East +26 53 £500 -13.04% 28
South West -2 18 £555 +0.91% 2
North of England -50 14 £436 +2.59% 7
North West -25 9 £456 +7.29% 2
East of England -14 6 £685 +14.17% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £413 - 4
Wales - 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 4
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.26%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (2.13%) IIS
5 1 (1.06%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.83%) Azure
2 9 (9.57%) IaaS
3 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
4 7 (7.45%) AWS
5 4 (4.26%) PaaS
6 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.13%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.06%) GCP
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub
8 1 (1.06%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (38.30%) DNS
2 22 (23.40%) Firewall
3 21 (22.34%) Cisco Firepower
3 21 (22.34%) Cisco IOS
3 21 (22.34%) Cisco ISE
3 21 (22.34%) Junos
4 14 (14.89%) VSAN
5 8 (8.51%) Skype
5 8 (8.51%) VLAN
6 7 (7.45%) DHCP
6 7 (7.45%) SAN
7 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.26%) NAS
8 4 (4.26%) NX-OS
8 4 (4.26%) PCoIP
9 2 (2.13%) LAN
9 2 (2.13%) VPN
9 2 (2.13%) WAN
9 2 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.13%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.32%) GitLab
3 4 (4.26%) JIRA
4 3 (3.19%) Git
General
1 15 (15.96%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.13%) Banking
4 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Legal
5 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 24 (25.53%) Network Engineer
3 21 (22.34%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 20 (21.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (21.28%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 19 (20.21%) Architect
5 19 (20.21%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 18 (19.15%) Support Engineer
7 16 (17.02%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (17.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 15 (15.96%) Network Support
8 15 (15.96%) Network Support Engineer
9 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (9.57%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Senior
12 5 (5.32%) Storage Engineer
13 4 (4.26%) Server Engineer
13 4 (4.26%) VMware Architect
13 4 (4.26%) VMware Specialist
13 4 (4.26%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) Middleware
2 2 (2.13%) LDAP
2 2 (2.13%) ModSecurity
2 2 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) PKI
2 8 (8.51%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.51%) Replication
3 5 (5.32%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.32%) Private Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.26%) Clustering
4 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (63.83%) Windows
2 39 (41.49%) Windows Server
3 31 (32.98%) Linux
4 15 (15.96%) Windows 10
5 6 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (5.32%) VMS
7 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.06%) CentOS
10 1 (1.06%) Solaris
10 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.79%) ITSM
2 26 (27.66%) Service Management
3 17 (18.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (15.96%) Migration
4 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (12.77%) Agile
5 12 (12.77%) ITIL
6 11 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
6 11 (11.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (10.64%) DevOps
8 9 (9.57%) Change Management
8 9 (9.57%) CI/CD
8 9 (9.57%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (8.51%) Containerisation
9 8 (8.51%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (7.45%) High Availability
10 7 (7.45%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (7.45%) Load Balancing
10 7 (7.45%) Roadmaps
11 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.60%) PowerShell
2 13 (13.83%) Python
3 10 (10.64%) Bash
4 5 (5.32%) SQL
5 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.06%) Perl
6 1 (1.06%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (77.66%) Security Cleared
2 43 (45.74%) DV Cleared
3 28 (29.79%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.32%) Degree
7 4 (4.26%) MCSA
7 4 (4.26%) MCSE
7 4 (4.26%) VCAP
8 2 (2.13%) A+ Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) GDPR
2 3 (3.19%) NCSC
3 2 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (55.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (44.68%) Active Directory
3 40 (42.55%) VMware NSX
4 31 (32.98%) VMware ESXi
4 31 (32.98%) vSphere
5 18 (19.15%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (7.45%) Docker
7 5 (5.32%) Firmware
8 4 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (3.19%) vCloud
10 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
10 2 (2.13%) NFS
10 2 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (21.28%) Ansible
2 15 (15.96%) Terraform
3 8 (8.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (8.51%) Argo
3 8 (8.51%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.45%) WSUS
5 6 (6.38%) SCCM
5 6 (6.38%) SCOM
6 5 (5.32%) VxRail
7 3 (3.19%) Nessus
7 3 (3.19%) OPNET
7 3 (3.19%) vRealize
8 2 (2.13%) Check_MK
8 2 (2.13%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.13%) FortiGate
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.13%) NetApp OnCommand
8 2 (2.13%) vMotion
9 1 (1.06%) Avamar
Vendors
1 69 (73.40%) VMware
2 42 (44.68%) Cisco
3 34 (36.17%) Microsoft
4 28 (29.79%) SolarWinds
5 21 (22.34%) Juniper
6 14 (14.89%) Veeam
7 12 (12.77%) Red Hat
8 11 (11.70%) Dell
9 7 (7.45%) Pure Storage
10 5 (5.32%) NetApp
10 5 (5.32%) Palo Alto
11 4 (4.26%) Broadcom
11 4 (4.26%) F5
11 4 (4.26%) Fortinet
12 3 (3.19%) Splunk
13 2 (2.13%) Aruba
13 2 (2.13%) Citrix
13 2 (2.13%) Google
13 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.13%) Tenable