vCenter Server Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

VMware vCenter Server
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.088% - 0.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.47% - 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £341
25th Percentile £358 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.79%
75th Percentile £373 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.09%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 426 192 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.85% 11.53% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 126 174
10th Percentile £282 £194 £259
25th Percentile £413 £366 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -12.37%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £547
90th Percentile £655 £685 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £43.30 £12.18 -
25th Percentile £54.25 £12.94 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +363.25% -70.56% +210.38%
75th Percentile £77.38 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £77.45 £18.13 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.31% -40.99% +31.94%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing vCenter Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing vCenter Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam