vCenter Server Contracts

VMware vCenter Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for vCenter Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vCenter Server over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 466 641
Rank change year-on-year +28 +175 -74
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 149 248 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.43% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.94% 2.68% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 174 121
10th Percentile £320 £404 £275
25th Percentile £458 £456 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £454
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +14.54% +8.10%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £570
90th Percentile £648 £654 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £528 £450
% change year-on-year -0.47% +17.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 28 3
10th Percentile £60.75 £26.98 £25.88
25th Percentile £61.88 £29.30 £34.64
Median hourly rate £67.50 £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.82% -15.84% +11.60%
75th Percentile £74.63 £50.17 £54.63
90th Percentile £76.65 £85.75 £56.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +58.82% -15.84% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

vCenter Server is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,068 9,241 14,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 16.03% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 6,639 10,128
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £562 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% -0.53% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 205 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.80 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -12.74%

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 14 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 13 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 14 May 2024. 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 +50 126 £525 +2.44% 36
UK excluding London +50 124 £525 -0.47% 31
South East +34 38 £605 +21.00% 10
South West +11 37 £525 -4.55% 7
Work from Home +45 19 £470 -9.62% 15
London +38 17 £600 +20.00% 4
Midlands +31 17 £400 -13.51% 8
Scotland +37 16 £623 +18.10% 1
West Midlands +27 16 £400 -13.51% 6
North of England +6 16 £340 -23.38% 4
North West +3 8 £575 +27.78%
Yorkshire - 7 £339 - 4
North East +11 1 £600 +93.55%

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 14 (9.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.36%) Confluence
3 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.82%) Azure
2 14 (9.40%) OCI
3 11 (7.38%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.03%) AWS
4 6 (4.03%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.68%) IaaS
6 3 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.01%) Nutanix
6 3 (2.01%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.34%) GitHub
8 1 (0.67%) GCP
8 1 (0.67%) PaaS
8 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 63 (42.28%) DNS
2 58 (38.93%) DHCP
3 48 (32.21%) Firewall
4 42 (28.19%) VSAN
5 41 (27.52%) SAN
6 13 (8.72%) Remote Desktop
7 10 (6.71%) LAN
7 10 (6.71%) WAN
8 8 (5.37%) VPN
9 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
10 6 (4.03%) FTP
10 6 (4.03%) SMTP
10 6 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (3.36%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (3.36%) NAS
12 4 (2.68%) SNA
13 2 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 2 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 2 (1.34%) Skype
13 2 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.68%) MySQL
4 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Big Data
5 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.05%) JIRA
2 4 (2.68%) Git
3 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
General
1 61 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.75%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.04%) Banking
4 7 (4.70%) Finance
5 6 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Legal
7 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.34%) Electronics
8 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.34%) Marketing
8 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (42.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (16.78%) VMware Engineer
3 23 (15.44%) Network Engineer
4 16 (10.74%) Storage Engineer
5 13 (8.72%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.04%) Architect
6 9 (6.04%) Senior
7 8 (5.37%) Data Centre Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Cisco Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Server Engineer
8 7 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.70%) VMware Expert
9 6 (4.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Consultant
9 6 (4.03%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) SAN Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 6 (4.03%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.36%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.03%) LDAP
2 5 (3.36%) Flash
3 4 (2.68%) YAML
4 2 (1.34%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.34%) JSON
5 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.24%) Data Centre
2 22 (14.77%) PKI
3 20 (13.42%) Clustering
4 15 (10.07%) Private Cloud
5 8 (5.37%) Replication
6 6 (4.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 4 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.68%) Fat Client
7 4 (2.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.68%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (51.01%) Windows
2 67 (44.97%) Windows Server
3 41 (27.52%) Linux
4 25 (16.78%) Windows 10
4 25 (16.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (13.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (12.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (9.40%) Windows XP
8 11 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (6.04%) Ubuntu
10 7 (4.70%) Unix
10 7 (4.70%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (4.03%) Windows 7
12 4 (2.68%) CentOS
12 4 (2.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (47.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (30.87%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (14.77%) ITIL
5 21 (14.09%) Project Management
5 21 (14.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 19 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (12.08%) Migration
7 18 (12.08%) Server Management
8 16 (10.74%) Data Protection
8 16 (10.74%) Storage Management
9 15 (10.07%) High Availability
9 15 (10.07%) Performance Monitoring
9 15 (10.07%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (9.40%) Break/Fix
10 14 (9.40%) CI/CD
10 14 (9.40%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (9.40%) Proactive Monitoring
11 13 (8.72%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.16%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.04%) Java
3 8 (5.37%) Python
4 7 (4.70%) C#
5 4 (2.68%) Bash
5 4 (2.68%) SQL
6 2 (1.34%) ActionScript
6 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 84 (56.38%) Security Cleared
2 58 (38.93%) SC Cleared
3 51 (34.23%) DV Cleared
4 30 (20.13%) Degree
5 23 (15.44%) CCNA
5 23 (15.44%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (13.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 14 (9.40%) CCNP
8 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.36%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.68%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.68%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (2.01%) MCSE
11 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) NIST
2 4 (2.68%) QA
3 2 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 106 (71.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 94 (63.09%) VMware ESXi
3 60 (40.27%) Active Directory
4 53 (35.57%) VMware NSX
5 47 (31.54%) vSphere
6 36 (24.16%) Hyper-V
7 13 (8.72%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (6.04%) vCloud
9 7 (4.70%) Docker
9 7 (4.70%) Firmware
9 7 (4.70%) KVM
10 6 (4.03%) BitLocker
10 6 (4.03%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (4.03%) Terminal Services
10 6 (4.03%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (3.36%) VMware Server
12 2 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (20.13%) SCCM
2 26 (17.45%) WSUS
3 16 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.74%) SCOM
4 14 (9.40%) Ansible
4 14 (9.40%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (9.40%) NetBackup
5 13 (8.72%) vRealize
6 12 (8.05%) vMotion
7 9 (6.04%) Terraform
8 8 (5.37%) VxRail
9 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Clustering
9 5 (3.36%) Nessus
10 4 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.68%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (2.68%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.34%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (1.34%) Rancher
13 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 147 (98.66%) VMware
2 59 (39.60%) Microsoft
3 42 (28.19%) Cisco
4 34 (22.82%) Veeam
5 29 (19.46%) Dell
6 22 (14.77%) Palo Alto
7 18 (12.08%) HP
7 18 (12.08%) Oracle
7 18 (12.08%) Symantec
8 16 (10.74%) EMC
9 15 (10.07%) Juniper
10 14 (9.40%) 3PAR
10 14 (9.40%) Extreme Networks
11 9 (6.04%) Citrix
12 7 (4.70%) Atlassian
13 6 (4.03%) CheckPoint
13 6 (4.03%) Infoblox
14 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
15 3 (2.01%) IBM
15 3 (2.01%) SolarWinds