vCenter Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware vCenter Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 273 335
Rank change year-on-year -1 +62 +52
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 81 113 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.78% 4.65% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 73 63
10th Percentile £396 £316 £400
25th Percentile £519 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -0.94% +17.78%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £579
90th Percentile £661 £608 £645
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 25
10th Percentile - £65.18 £26.45
25th Percentile - £67.31 £29.30
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +71.18% -26.09%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £49.52
90th Percentile - £77.33 £68.85
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +71.18% -26.09%

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 2,141 2,429 3,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.13% 11.47% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,762 2,356
10th Percentile £235 £225 £294
25th Percentile £375 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 61 111
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.39 £17.72 £21.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%
75th Percentile £68.44 £48.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £83.11 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the UK excluding London

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the UK excluding London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the UK excluding London

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 West +24 29 £575 +9.52% 6
North of England +18 24 £400 +20.30% 13
South East +24 21 £575 -4.96% 18
Yorkshire +14 12 £488 +47.73% 7
North West +9 12 £350 -22.22% 6
East of England +29 6 £550 - 5
Midlands +1 3 £550 +37.50% 5
West Midlands -5 2 £458 +14.38% 2
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 3
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (24.69%) Confluence
2 13 (16.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.47%) IIS
5 1 (1.23%) Anypoint
Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.81%) AWS
2 9 (11.11%) GCP
3 8 (9.88%) Azure
3 8 (9.88%) IaaS
3 8 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (9.88%) OpenShift
3 8 (9.88%) PaaS
4 5 (6.17%) Entra ID
4 5 (6.17%) GitHub
5 4 (4.94%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.23%) Route 53
6 1 (1.23%) Serverless
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.16%) DNS
2 21 (25.93%) Firewall
3 16 (19.75%) VSAN
4 13 (16.05%) DHCP
5 11 (13.58%) SAN
6 8 (9.88%) SMTP
6 8 (9.88%) VPN
7 7 (8.64%) Network Security
8 6 (7.41%) BGP
8 6 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (7.41%) OSPF
8 6 (7.41%) VXLAN
9 5 (6.17%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (6.17%) DMVPN
10 4 (4.94%) LAN
10 4 (4.94%) NAS
11 3 (3.70%) WLAN
12 2 (2.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 1 (1.23%) Multicast
13 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.88%) Big Data
2 8 (9.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) JIRA
2 17 (20.99%) Jenkins
3 15 (18.52%) Git
4 11 (13.58%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.94%) GitLab
6 1 (1.23%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (23.46%) Public Sector
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.41%) Finance
4 4 (4.94%) Legal
5 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (38.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (19.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 11 (13.58%) VMware Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (9.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Support Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) VMware Specialist
10 3 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Industrial Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) VMWare Administrator
10 3 (3.70%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.81%) REST
2 11 (13.58%) Flash
3 10 (12.35%) SOAP
4 5 (6.17%) Middleware
4 5 (6.17%) Spine.js
5 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Clustering
2 16 (19.75%) Data Centre
3 10 (12.35%) PKI
4 8 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.47%) Replication
7 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (54.32%) Windows
2 41 (50.62%) Windows Server
3 34 (41.98%) Linux
4 14 (17.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (9.88%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (9.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (8.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.94%) Unix
8 3 (3.70%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.70%) Windows 10
9 2 (2.47%) VMS
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (1.23%) CentOS
10 1 (1.23%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (53.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (40.74%) Agile
3 28 (34.57%) Service Management
4 27 (33.33%) Validation
5 25 (30.86%) System Testing
6 24 (29.63%) Network Virtualisation
6 24 (29.63%) NsoIT
7 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (23.46%) High Availability
9 16 (19.75%) Waterfall
10 15 (18.52%) Infrastructure Automation
11 13 (16.05%) DevOps
11 13 (16.05%) Power Management
12 11 (13.58%) Computer Science
12 11 (13.58%) Configuration Management
12 11 (13.58%) Critical Thinking
12 11 (13.58%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (13.58%) Reverse Engineering
13 9 (11.11%) Migration
14 8 (9.88%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.98%) PowerShell
2 21 (25.93%) Python
3 10 (12.35%) Bash
4 4 (4.94%) Shell Script
4 4 (4.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 38 (46.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 37 (45.68%) SC Cleared
4 24 (29.63%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (24.69%) Degree
5 20 (24.69%) DV Cleared
6 15 (18.52%) CCNP
7 11 (13.58%) OCA
7 11 (13.58%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (12.35%) RHCA
8 10 (12.35%) RHCE
9 9 (11.11%) CCNA
9 9 (11.11%) Master's Degree
10 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (7.41%) VCAP
12 5 (6.17%) MCSE
13 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
14 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (1.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) SLA
2 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 62 (76.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (56.79%) VMware ESXi
3 32 (39.51%) Active Directory
4 30 (37.04%) VMware NSX
5 20 (24.69%) vSphere
6 15 (18.52%) Hyper-V
7 12 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (9.88%) BitLocker
8 8 (9.88%) Docker
8 8 (9.88%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (9.88%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (37.04%) Ansible
2 18 (22.22%) Puppet
3 10 (12.35%) Progress Chef
3 10 (12.35%) vMotion
3 10 (12.35%) WSUS
4 9 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 9 (11.11%) PowerCLI
5 8 (9.88%) Nagios
5 8 (9.88%) Terraform
6 6 (7.41%) vRealize
7 5 (6.17%) SCCM
7 5 (6.17%) VxRail
8 4 (4.94%) SCOM
9 3 (3.70%) Backup Exec
9 3 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (3.70%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (2.47%) NetApp OnCommand
11 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 75 (92.59%) VMware
2 29 (35.80%) Cisco
3 26 (32.10%) Microsoft
4 17 (20.99%) Atlassian
5 16 (19.75%) Citrix
6 14 (17.28%) Symantec
7 11 (13.58%) Oracle
8 9 (11.11%) HP
9 8 (9.88%) Google
10 7 (8.64%) Veeam
11 6 (7.41%) Dell
11 6 (7.41%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.47%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.47%) F5
12 2 (2.47%) IBM
12 2 (2.47%) Juniper
12 2 (2.47%) McAfee
12 2 (2.47%) NETGEAR
12 2 (2.47%) TP-LINK
13 1 (1.23%) Zscaler