vCenter Server Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware vCenter Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 324 384
Rank change year-on-year +48 +60 +158
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 28 21 93
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.14% 0.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.83% 1.28% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 65
10th Percentile £351 £331 £415
25th Percentile £492 £382 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -0.99% +6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £575
90th Percentile £594 £643 £642
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £522
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.57% +15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £75.75
25th Percentile - - £76.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - £105.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% +58.82% -26.09%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

vCenter Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vCenter Server trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing vCenter Server.

vCenter Server daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

vCenter Server daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing vCenter Server.

vCenter Server hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (39.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) DHCP
1 12 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) VSAN
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Administrator
2 4 (14.29%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (14.29%) Wintel Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (3.57%) Lead
4 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) Flash
2 2 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Clustering
2 9 (32.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
1 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (10.71%) Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
4 1 (3.57%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (39.29%) Critical Thinking
3 11 (39.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 11 (39.29%) NsoIT
3 11 (39.29%) Validation
3 11 (39.29%) Waterfall
4 10 (35.71%) Computer Science
4 10 (35.71%) High Availability
4 10 (35.71%) Power Management
4 10 (35.71%) Service Management
4 10 (35.71%) System Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Patch Management
5 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
6 2 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.57%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (46.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (42.86%) Degree
5 11 (39.29%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (35.71%) CCNA
6 10 (35.71%) Master's Degree
7 2 (7.14%) OCA
7 2 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (3.57%) CCNP
8 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (3.57%) MCSA
8 1 (3.57%) MCSE
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.57%) RHCA
8 1 (3.57%) RHCE
8 1 (3.57%) VCAP
System Software
1 23 (82.14%) VMware ESXi
2 19 (67.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 12 (42.86%) VMware NSX
4 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
5 3 (10.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.57%) Cloudify
4 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (42.86%) Cisco
3 11 (39.29%) Atlassian
4 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Dell
6 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.57%) Juniper
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.57%) Veeam