vCenter Server Job Trends in the Thames Valley

VMware vCenter Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 181 168
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +95
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 1 12 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.029% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% 2.52% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 10
10th Percentile - £45,500 -
25th Percentile - £49,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £51,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year - +23.64% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £93,750 £56,250
90th Percentile - £94,000 -
South East median annual salary £53,750 £49,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.14% -6.19% +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 329 477 549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.46% 11.06% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 154 274 426
10th Percentile £30,750 £40,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £47,500 £41,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £65,000 £55,763
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +16.57% -7.06%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,963 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +6.15% +2.77%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

vCenter Server
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing vCenter Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Berkshire +2 1 - - 5
vCenter Server
South East

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware