vCenter Server Job Trends in England

VMware vCenter Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 548 586
Rank change year-on-year -29 +38 +155
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 72 80 205
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.81% 1.73% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 46 70 178
10th Percentile £27,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £62,000 £88,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

vCenter Server falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,975 4,622 7,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.01% 11.98% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,850 3,220 6,622
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £32,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £51,237 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing vCenter Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in England

vCenter Server
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing vCenter Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in England

vCenter Server
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the England region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +4 41 £47,500 -7.32% 13
London +12 14 £50,000 -35.48% 15
South West -20 7 £58,750 +29.12% 4
East of England -12 6 £46,160 -26.14% 1
North of England -54 2 - - 11
Midlands -23 1 - - 2
North West -29 1 - - 4
East Midlands -33 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -43 1 - - 7
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) Azure
2 20 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 7 (9.72%) SaaS
5 6 (8.33%) IaaS
6 5 (6.94%) AWS
6 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
6 5 (6.94%) PaaS
7 3 (4.17%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.17%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.39%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 28 (38.89%) Firewall
2 18 (25.00%) DNS
3 17 (23.61%) DHCP
4 12 (16.67%) VLAN
5 11 (15.28%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (13.89%) Cisco IOS
6 10 (13.89%) Cisco ISE
6 10 (13.89%) Junos
6 10 (13.89%) SAN
7 9 (12.50%) NX-OS
8 8 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
10 6 (8.33%) VPN
11 5 (6.94%) VSAN
12 3 (4.17%) WAN
13 2 (2.78%) LAN
13 2 (2.78%) NetScaler
13 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
13 2 (2.78%) Wireless
14 1 (1.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.78%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.39%) MySQL
3 1 (1.39%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) JIRA
2 5 (6.94%) GitLab
3 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.78%) Git
4 2 (2.78%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.78%) Selenium
4 2 (2.78%) TestRail
General
1 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Finance
3 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.17%) Retail
5 2 (2.78%) Games
6 1 (1.39%) Advertising
6 1 (1.39%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (48.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Network Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Consultant
6 6 (8.33%) IT Support
6 6 (8.33%) IT Support Technician
6 6 (8.33%) IT Technician
6 6 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Support Technician
7 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 5 (6.94%) Senior
7 5 (6.94%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
8 4 (5.56%) Network Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) LDAP
2 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.78%) Playwright
2 2 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) PKI
2 6 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Clustering
4 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) CCTV
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) Replication
6 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (70.83%) Windows
2 42 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 20 (27.78%) Linux
4 10 (13.89%) Mac OS
5 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (9.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (8.33%) Apple iOS
8 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (5.56%) CentOS
9 4 (5.56%) VMS
10 3 (4.17%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (51.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (26.39%) ITSM
3 15 (20.83%) Change Management
3 15 (20.83%) Service Management
4 14 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.28%) DevOps
6 11 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (13.89%) ITIL
8 7 (9.72%) Agile
8 7 (9.72%) AI
8 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (9.72%) Security Operations
9 6 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
9 6 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
9 6 (8.33%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.33%) Runbook
9 6 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.72%) SQL
3 6 (8.33%) Python
4 4 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (2.78%) Bicep
5 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (40.28%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.56%) DV Cleared
3 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 6 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (5.56%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.39%) CCIE
8 1 (1.39%) CCNP
8 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.39%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.78%) GDPR
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (59.72%) Active Directory
2 37 (51.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (41.67%) vSphere
5 16 (22.22%) VMware NSX
6 11 (15.28%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (12.50%) Firmware
8 4 (5.56%) Docker
9 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.39%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (23.61%) SCCM
3 8 (11.11%) Terraform
4 6 (8.33%) Ansible
4 6 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
5 5 (6.94%) SCOM
5 5 (6.94%) ZABBIX
6 4 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (5.56%) FortiGate
6 4 (5.56%) Nagios
6 4 (5.56%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.17%) VxRail
8 2 (2.78%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (2.78%) Grafana
8 2 (2.78%) Kibana
8 2 (2.78%) logstash
9 1 (1.39%) Galera Cluster
9 1 (1.39%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 56 (77.78%) VMware
2 38 (52.78%) Microsoft
3 28 (38.89%) SolarWinds
4 20 (27.78%) Cisco
5 13 (18.06%) NetApp
6 12 (16.67%) Fortinet
7 10 (13.89%) Juniper
7 10 (13.89%) Veeam
8 9 (12.50%) Broadcom
9 7 (9.72%) 3PAR
9 7 (9.72%) Red Hat
10 6 (8.33%) Apple
11 4 (5.56%) Dell
11 4 (5.56%) McAfee
11 4 (5.56%) Meraki
11 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
12 3 (4.17%) Citrix
12 3 (4.17%) NVIDIA
13 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
13 2 (2.78%) Splunk