vCenter Server Jobs

VMware vCenter Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring vCenter Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 632 615 696
Rank change year-on-year -17 +81 +245
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 60 292 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.21% 2.92% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 58 208 172
10th Percentile £35,225 £34,188 £32,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £46,050 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66,563 £67,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,978 10,017 15,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 10.17% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,344 7,239 9,373
10th Percentile £37,075 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,150 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server.

Salary trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 12 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England -24 56 £57,500 +9.52% 40
UK excluding London +32 42 £55,000 +7.84% 36
South East +56 28 £56,250 +15.98% 14
London +59 17 £75,000 -9.09% 6
Work from Home +65 16 £70,000 +16.67% 22
East of England +57 5 £62,500 +38.89%
Midlands +67 3 £45,750 -15.28% 7
Yorkshire +53 3 £48,750 -23.53%
North of England +50 3 £48,750 -23.53% 7
Wales +44 3 £49,104 - 1
West Midlands +39 2 £36,500 -32.41% 5
East Midlands +46 1 £55,000 - 1

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 38 (63.33%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (30.00%) AWS
4 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.33%) GCP
4 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.00%) SaaS
6 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.33%) IaaS
6 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.67%) Cohesity
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 42 (70.00%) DNS
2 36 (60.00%) DHCP
3 31 (51.67%) Firewall
4 12 (20.00%) VSAN
5 10 (16.67%) LAN
5 10 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
5 10 (16.67%) WAN
6 9 (15.00%) Network Security
6 9 (15.00%) SAN
7 8 (13.33%) VPN
8 7 (11.67%) NAS
8 7 (11.67%) SMTP
9 4 (6.67%) NetScaler
9 4 (6.67%) TCP/IP
10 3 (5.00%) VLAN
11 1 (1.67%) HTTP
11 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (18.33%) Finance
4 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Retail
7 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Games
8 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (28.33%) Support Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (11.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Technical Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) VMware Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) VMware Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Help Desk Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (8.33%) Help Desk Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Support Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) Technical Support
6 5 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.67%) LDAP
1 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Clustering
2 7 (11.67%) PKI
3 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.67%) Online Games
8 1 (1.67%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 52 (86.67%) Windows
2 47 (78.33%) Windows Server
3 22 (36.67%) Linux
4 9 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 5 (8.33%) Windows 10
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.33%) CentOS
8 2 (3.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.67%) Unix
9 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (26.67%) High Availability
3 13 (21.67%) Customer Service
4 12 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (18.33%) Incident Management
5 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (18.33%) Task Automation
6 9 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (13.33%) Business Continuity
7 8 (13.33%) Change Control
7 8 (13.33%) ITIL
8 7 (11.67%) Service Management
8 7 (11.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 6 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (10.00%) Security Hardening
9 6 (10.00%) Time Management
9 6 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
10 5 (8.33%) CRM
10 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.33%) SQL
3 3 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.67%) DV Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.00%) MCP
6 3 (5.00%) MCSA
7 2 (3.33%) CCNA
7 2 (3.33%) CCNP
7 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.33%) CISSP
7 2 (3.33%) Degree
8 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.67%) MCSE
8 1 (1.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 44 (73.33%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (40.00%) Hyper-V
5 23 (38.33%) vSphere
6 12 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (16.67%) Docker
8 8 (13.33%) VMware NSX
9 7 (11.67%) BitLocker
9 7 (11.67%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (11.67%) Terminal Services
10 5 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (5.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (3.33%) Firmware
13 1 (1.67%) GPFS
13 1 (1.67%) NFS
13 1 (1.67%) vCloud
13 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (26.67%) Ansible
2 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (21.67%) Puppet
3 12 (20.00%) SCCM
3 12 (20.00%) vMotion
4 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (13.33%) vRealize
5 7 (11.67%) WSUS
6 6 (10.00%) PowerCLI
6 6 (10.00%) VxRail
7 5 (8.33%) Nagios
7 5 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (8.33%) Terraform
8 4 (6.67%) SCOM
9 3 (5.00%) Avamar
9 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
10 2 (3.33%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (1.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 57 (95.00%) VMware
2 40 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 19 (31.67%) Citrix
4 16 (26.67%) Cisco
5 12 (20.00%) Veeam
6 10 (16.67%) Dell
6 10 (16.67%) HP
7 7 (11.67%) EMC
8 5 (8.33%) Google
8 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
8 5 (8.33%) Sophos
8 5 (8.33%) Symantec
8 5 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (6.67%) Bloomberg
9 4 (6.67%) FactSet
9 4 (6.67%) Fortinet
9 4 (6.67%) Mitel
9 4 (6.67%) NetApp
9 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
9 4 (6.67%) Refinitiv