vCenter Server Job Trends in the South East

VMware vCenter Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 246 317
Rank change year-on-year -50 +71 -11
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 22 32 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.75% 4.86% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 21 30 65
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,469 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +18.56% -1.02%
75th Percentile £80,000 £58,750 £59,000
90th Percentile - £62,000 £67,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 799 659 1,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.12% 7.75% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 674 435 1,149
10th Percentile £31,355 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in the South East

vCenter Server
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing vCenter Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the South East over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Hampshire -41 15 £75,000 +30.43% 8
Surrey -21 5 £27,000 -53.04% 1
Thames Valley +7 1 - - 4
Berkshire +3 1 - - 1
West Sussex -19 1 £39,000 -
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (45.45%) SaaS
3 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
5 3 (13.64%) Mimecast
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 4 (18.18%) VLAN
3 3 (13.64%) DNS
3 3 (13.64%) LAN
3 3 (13.64%) VPN
3 3 (13.64%) WAN
3 3 (13.64%) Wireless
4 2 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (4.55%) Junos
5 1 (4.55%) NX-OS
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Back Office
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) IT Support
3 5 (22.73%) IT Support Technician
3 5 (22.73%) IT Technician
3 5 (22.73%) Lead
3 5 (22.73%) Support Technician
4 3 (13.64%) Team Leader
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Leader
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Team Leader
5 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) PKI
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Windows
2 17 (77.27%) Windows Server
3 10 (45.45%) Linux
4 7 (31.82%) CentOS
4 7 (31.82%) Ubuntu
4 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (27.27%) Apple iOS
6 5 (22.73%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (36.36%) Change Control
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Application Packaging
3 7 (31.82%) DevSecOps
4 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 5 (22.73%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
5 5 (22.73%) Service Management
6 4 (18.18%) Change Management
6 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.64%) Presales
7 3 (13.64%) Process Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) NCSC
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
2 13 (59.09%) vSphere
3 12 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (9.09%) UAG
5 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
3 7 (31.82%) Ansible
3 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 7 (31.82%) Nessus
4 5 (22.73%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (9.09%) SCCM
7 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) VMware
2 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
3 7 (31.82%) Red Hat
4 6 (27.27%) Apple
5 3 (13.64%) Cisco
5 3 (13.64%) Sophos
5 3 (13.64%) Symantec
5 3 (13.64%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (9.09%) Becrypt
7 1 (4.55%) Broadcom
7 1 (4.55%) Citrix
7 1 (4.55%) Juniper
7 1 (4.55%) MobileIron
7 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds