vCenter Server Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware vCenter Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 447 567
Rank change year-on-year -59 +120 +17
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 59 47 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.093% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.47% 1.75% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 38 45 152
10th Percentile £27,000 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,956 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £58,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,313
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,387 2,689 6,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.75% 10.11% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,757 1,674 4,494
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

vCenter Server job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

vCenter Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCenter Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the UK excluding London

vCenter Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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 -39 29 £52,500 +5.00% 11
South West -50 8 - - 5
East of England -33 6 £46,160 -26.14% 1
Isle of Man - 6 £45,000 -
Wales -28 4 £65,000 +32.37% 3
Midlands -31 3 - -
North of England -68 3 £50,000 +5.26% 5
East Midlands - 3 - -
North West -36 2 £50,000 +5.26% 4
Yorkshire -60 1 - - 1
vCenter Server
UK

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) Azure
2 20 (33.90%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (23.73%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.86%) OpenShift
4 7 (11.86%) SaaS
5 4 (6.78%) AWS
5 4 (6.78%) IaaS
5 4 (6.78%) PaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.90%) DNS
2 19 (32.20%) Firewall
3 14 (23.73%) DHCP
4 9 (15.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (15.25%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (15.25%) Cisco ISE
4 9 (15.25%) Junos
4 9 (15.25%) NX-OS
5 7 (11.86%) SAN
5 7 (11.86%) VPN
6 6 (10.17%) VLAN
6 6 (10.17%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (6.78%) BGP
7 4 (6.78%) MPLS
7 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
7 4 (6.78%) WAN
8 3 (5.08%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (5.08%) MQTT
9 2 (3.39%) NetScaler
9 2 (3.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (6.78%) InfluxDB
1 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.08%) MySQL
2 3 (5.08%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) GitLab
2 4 (6.78%) Cypress.io
2 4 (6.78%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.78%) JIRA
2 4 (6.78%) Robot Framework
2 4 (6.78%) Selenium
2 4 (6.78%) TestRail
General
1 12 (20.34%) Finance
2 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Law
5 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) IT Support
3 6 (10.17%) IT Support Technician
3 6 (10.17%) IT Technician
3 6 (10.17%) Support Technician
3 6 (10.17%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Consultant
5 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (6.78%) Playwright
1 4 (6.78%) pytest
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.03%) PKI
2 10 (16.95%) Replication
3 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.08%) Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.08%) IoT
6 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) CCTV
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (71.19%) Windows
2 31 (52.54%) Windows Server
3 23 (38.98%) Linux
4 7 (11.86%) CentOS
4 7 (11.86%) Mac OS
4 7 (11.86%) Ubuntu
4 7 (11.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (10.17%) Apple iOS
6 5 (8.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (6.78%) Unix
7 4 (6.78%) VMS
7 4 (6.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (25.42%) Change Management
3 14 (23.73%) ITSM
4 13 (22.03%) Service Management
5 12 (20.34%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (18.64%) ITIL
6 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.86%) Agile
9 7 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (10.17%) AI
10 6 (10.17%) Data Loss Prevention
10 6 (10.17%) Mobile Device Management
10 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.47%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (8.47%) Computer Science
11 5 (8.47%) High Availability
12 4 (6.78%) SIEM
12 4 (6.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.86%) SQL
3 5 (8.47%) Python
4 4 (6.78%) Bash
4 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 28 (47.46%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.59%) DV Cleared
3 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Degree
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (3.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 39 (66.10%) Active Directory
2 33 (55.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (52.54%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (42.37%) vSphere
5 15 (25.42%) VMware NSX
6 12 (20.34%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (15.25%) Firmware
8 6 (10.17%) DFS Replication
9 4 (6.78%) Docker
10 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
10 1 (1.69%) KVM
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (18.64%) Ansible
3 9 (15.25%) SCCM
4 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (11.86%) Terraform
5 6 (10.17%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (6.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (6.78%) Grafana
6 4 (6.78%) Kibana
6 4 (6.78%) logstash
6 4 (6.78%) SCOM
6 4 (6.78%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (5.08%) Galera Cluster
7 3 (5.08%) Nessus
8 2 (3.39%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (3.39%) VxRail
9 1 (1.69%) Nagios
9 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (81.36%) VMware
2 32 (54.24%) Microsoft
3 22 (37.29%) SolarWinds
4 10 (16.95%) Cisco
5 9 (15.25%) Broadcom
5 9 (15.25%) Juniper
5 9 (15.25%) Red Hat
6 8 (13.56%) Splunk
7 7 (11.86%) NetApp
7 7 (11.86%) Veeam
8 6 (10.17%) Apple
9 4 (6.78%) 3PAR
9 4 (6.78%) Atlassian
9 4 (6.78%) Dell
9 4 (6.78%) McAfee
10 2 (3.39%) Citrix
10 2 (3.39%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.39%) NVIDIA
11 1 (1.69%) Meraki
11 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow