vCenter Server Contracts

VMware vCenter Server
UK

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 444 461
Rank change year-on-year +38 +17 +191
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 113 157 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.36% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.45% 3.05% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 101 185
10th Percentile £375 £356 £400
25th Percentile £513 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.57% +15.49%
75th Percentile £594 £608 £581
90th Percentile £675 £650 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +9.52% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 27
10th Percentile - £60.75 £26.80
25th Percentile - £61.88 £29.30
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +58.82% -26.09%
75th Percentile - £74.63 £50.83
90th Percentile - £76.65 £86.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +58.82% -18.27%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +30 100 £563 +6.13% 39
UK excluding London +14 90 £575 +9.52% 35
South West +43 37 £569 +8.33% 8
Work from Home +57 28 £535 +7.00% 21
South East +28 26 £575 -4.96% 13
North of England +30 23 £350 -5.41% 7
North West +17 14 £350 -39.13% 7
Yorkshire +16 9 £488 +43.38%
London +24 7 £525 -12.50% 6
East of England - 5 £550 -
Midlands +12 1 £550 +29.41% 6
West Midlands +5 1 £550 +29.41% 5

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (17.70%) Confluence
2 15 (13.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.42%) IIS
4 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (11.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.16%) Azure
1 16 (14.16%) OpenShift
2 14 (12.39%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.73%) AWS
4 9 (7.96%) GCP
4 9 (7.96%) IaaS
4 9 (7.96%) PaaS
5 7 (6.19%) SaaS
6 6 (5.31%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.54%) GitHub
7 4 (3.54%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 37 (32.74%) DNS
2 29 (25.66%) DHCP
3 22 (19.47%) Firewall
4 20 (17.70%) VSAN
5 13 (11.50%) SAN
6 10 (8.85%) SMTP
6 10 (8.85%) VPN
7 7 (6.19%) Network Security
8 5 (4.42%) BGP
8 5 (4.42%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (4.42%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (4.42%) DMVPN
8 5 (4.42%) OSPF
8 5 (4.42%) VXLAN
9 4 (3.54%) NAS
10 3 (2.65%) LAN
10 3 (2.65%) WLAN
11 2 (1.77%) FTP
11 2 (1.77%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (7.96%) Big Data
1 9 (7.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (17.70%) JIRA
2 16 (14.16%) Git
3 13 (11.50%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.73%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.54%) GitLab
General
1 24 (21.24%) Public Sector
1 24 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.54%) Legal
4 2 (1.77%) Banking
5 1 (0.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 38 (33.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (15.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 17 (15.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 13 (11.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (11.50%) VMware Engineer
4 11 (9.73%) Senior
5 9 (7.96%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (7.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) Administrator
6 8 (7.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.08%) VMWare Administrator
6 8 (7.08%) Wintel Administrator
7 7 (6.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.39%) Flash
2 11 (9.73%) REST
3 10 (8.85%) SOAP
4 5 (4.42%) Spine.js
5 4 (3.54%) Middleware
6 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.88%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.78%) Clustering
1 28 (24.78%) Data Centre
2 15 (13.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (12.39%) PKI
4 10 (8.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 64 (56.64%) Windows
2 61 (53.98%) Windows Server
3 47 (41.59%) Linux
4 22 (19.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (18.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (15.04%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (8.85%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (7.96%) Ubuntu
9 7 (6.19%) CentOS
10 5 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (4.42%) Unix
11 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
12 2 (1.77%) VMS
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.88%) VyOS
13 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (36.28%) Agile
3 31 (27.43%) Service Management
4 30 (26.55%) High Availability
5 29 (25.66%) Validation
6 28 (24.78%) Network Virtualisation
6 28 (24.78%) System Testing
7 27 (23.89%) NsoIT
8 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.93%) Waterfall
10 16 (14.16%) Power Management
11 14 (12.39%) Computer Science
11 14 (12.39%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (11.50%) Critical Thinking
13 12 (10.62%) DevOps
13 12 (10.62%) Migration
13 12 (10.62%) Patch Management
14 11 (9.73%) Configuration Management
14 11 (9.73%) Deployment Automation
15 10 (8.85%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.40%) PowerShell
2 20 (17.70%) Python
3 12 (10.62%) Bash
4 5 (4.42%) SQL
5 4 (3.54%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.88%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 78 (69.03%) Security Cleared
2 49 (43.36%) SC Cleared
3 40 (35.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 30 (26.55%) DV Cleared
5 29 (25.66%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (22.12%) Degree
7 17 (15.04%) CCNP
8 14 (12.39%) CCNA
9 12 (10.62%) Master's Degree
9 12 (10.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (10.62%) RHCE
10 11 (9.73%) OCA
10 11 (9.73%) Oracle Certification
11 10 (8.85%) RHCA
12 7 (6.19%) MCSE
13 4 (3.54%) VCAP
14 3 (2.65%) MCSA
15 2 (1.77%) CISSP
15 2 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (76.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (61.95%) VMware ESXi
3 51 (45.13%) Active Directory
4 34 (30.09%) vSphere
5 31 (27.43%) VMware NSX
6 24 (21.24%) Hyper-V
7 14 (12.39%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (8.85%) BitLocker
8 10 (8.85%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (8.85%) Terminal Services
9 9 (7.96%) Docker
10 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (34.51%) Ansible
2 20 (17.70%) Puppet
3 17 (15.04%) Kubernetes
4 15 (13.27%) vMotion
5 13 (11.50%) Terraform
5 13 (11.50%) WSUS
6 10 (8.85%) Nagios
6 10 (8.85%) Progress Chef
7 9 (7.96%) Nessus
8 8 (7.08%) PowerCLI
9 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (5.31%) vRealize
10 5 (4.42%) NetApp OnCommand
10 5 (4.42%) SCCM
10 5 (4.42%) SCOM
10 5 (4.42%) VxRail
11 3 (2.65%) Backup Exec
11 3 (2.65%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (2.65%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.88%) Cloudify
Vendors
1 107 (94.69%) VMware
2 47 (41.59%) Microsoft
3 33 (29.20%) Cisco
4 20 (17.70%) Atlassian
5 17 (15.04%) Citrix
6 15 (13.27%) Symantec
7 11 (9.73%) Oracle
7 11 (9.73%) Red Hat
8 10 (8.85%) HP
9 9 (7.96%) Google
10 8 (7.08%) Dell
10 8 (7.08%) SolarWinds
10 8 (7.08%) Veeam
11 3 (2.65%) Juniper
12 2 (1.77%) McAfee
12 2 (1.77%) NETGEAR
12 2 (1.77%) TP-LINK
13 1 (0.88%) Infoblox
13 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.88%) Veritas