VMware vCenter Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for vCenter Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited vCenter Server over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 584 837 953
Rank change year-on-year +253 +116 -326
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 149 254 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.81% 1.29% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 104 202 131
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,783 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,565 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +17.65% -2.86%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

vCenter Server is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,232 19,722 21,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.21% 15.67% 16.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,489 11,664 13,956
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £103,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,525 £56,480 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.08% +2.69% +6.28%

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 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 13 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 29 November 2023. 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 +214 145 £49,565 -3.76% 49
UK excluding London +188 126 £49,565 -0.87% 37
South West +95 45 £41,500 -34.13% 5
Work from Home +164 43 £52,170 +4.34% 23
Midlands +119 38 £50,000 - 6
South East +130 32 £30,000 -41.75% 6
West Midlands +121 30 £49,565 -4.75% 5
London +211 20 £61,000 +10.91% 17
East Midlands +36 8 £50,000 - 1
East of England +83 7 £37,500 -28.57% 2
Scotland +59 3 £52,500 - 4
North of England +111 1 £82,500 +65.00% 15
North West +98 1 £82,500 +50.00% 7

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 32 (21.48%) MS Exchange
2 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.01%) IIS
4 2 (1.34%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.67%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.26%) Azure
2 41 (27.52%) AWS
3 40 (26.85%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (16.78%) Cloud Computing
5 22 (14.77%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.37%) IaaS
7 7 (4.70%) GCP
7 7 (4.70%) PaaS
8 4 (2.68%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.68%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.68%) SaaS
9 3 (2.01%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.34%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.67%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (32.21%) DNS
2 45 (30.20%) DHCP
3 26 (17.45%) TCP/IP
4 25 (16.78%) SNMP
4 25 (16.78%) Software-Defined Networking
5 24 (16.11%) SSL
6 23 (15.44%) FTP
6 23 (15.44%) HTTP
6 23 (15.44%) SMTP
6 23 (15.44%) SSH
6 23 (15.44%) Telnet
7 22 (14.77%) SAN
8 16 (10.74%) Firewall
9 8 (5.37%) LAN
9 8 (5.37%) WAN
10 5 (3.36%) VLAN
10 5 (3.36%) VSAN
11 4 (2.68%) WAAS
12 3 (2.01%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (2.01%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.01%) Big Data
4 3 (2.01%) MySQL
5 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) MSI
General
1 24 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.04%) Finance
3 8 (5.37%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.34%) Legal
6 2 (1.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Law
7 1 (0.67%) Military
7 1 (0.67%) Publishing
7 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (51.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (20.81%) VMware Engineer
3 28 (18.79%) Support Engineer
4 25 (16.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (16.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 22 (14.77%) Senior
7 15 (10.07%) 2nd Line Support
7 15 (10.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 14 (9.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Infrastructure Support
10 8 (5.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
11 7 (4.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Administrator
12 6 (4.03%) Architect
12 6 (4.03%) Consultant
12 6 (4.03%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.34%) YAML
2 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 44 (29.53%) Data Centre
2 28 (18.79%) Private Cloud
3 23 (15.44%) EFT
4 11 (7.38%) PKI
5 10 (6.71%) Clustering
6 7 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.70%) Replication
7 6 (4.03%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.34%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.67%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 98 (65.77%) Windows
2 86 (57.72%) Windows Server
3 34 (22.82%) Linux
4 23 (15.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (8.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (7.38%) Windows 10
7 8 (5.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (3.36%) CentOS
8 5 (3.36%) Data ONTAP
8 5 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (3.36%) Windows 2000
8 5 (3.36%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (3.36%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.67%) Debian
9 1 (0.67%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.67%) Unix
9 1 (0.67%) VMS
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (55.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (26.85%) ITIL
3 33 (22.15%) Server Management
4 30 (20.13%) Storage Management
5 29 (19.46%) Actionable Insight
6 24 (16.11%) Problem Management
7 23 (15.44%) Server Patching
8 18 (12.08%) Change Management
9 17 (11.41%) Incident Management
10 16 (10.74%) Agile
10 16 (10.74%) Customer Service
11 12 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (7.38%) DevOps
13 10 (6.71%) Mentoring
13 10 (6.71%) Time Management
14 9 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (6.04%) Scrum
15 8 (5.37%) Containerisation
15 8 (5.37%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.21%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.03%) SQL
3 2 (1.34%) Bash
3 2 (1.34%) Perl
3 2 (1.34%) Python
Qualifications
1 81 (54.36%) Security Cleared
2 72 (48.32%) SC Cleared
3 30 (20.13%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.05%) Degree
5 9 (6.04%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (5.37%) CCNP
7 6 (4.03%) CCNA
8 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.68%) MCSE
9 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.01%) CCDP
10 3 (2.01%) CCIE
10 3 (2.01%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 3 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.34%) MCP
11 2 (1.34%) MCSA
12 1 (0.67%) CCA
12 1 (0.67%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.67%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) SLA
2 5 (3.36%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 109 (73.15%) VMware ESXi
2 93 (62.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 91 (61.07%) Active Directory
4 29 (19.46%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (18.12%) Virtual Servers
6 17 (11.41%) Hyper-V
7 16 (10.74%) vSphere
8 8 (5.37%) Docker
8 8 (5.37%) Firmware
9 5 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (2.68%) BitLocker
11 3 (2.01%) KVM
12 2 (1.34%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.67%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.67%) XenApp
13 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (24.83%) SCCM
2 26 (17.45%) VxRail
3 11 (7.38%) vRealize
4 9 (6.04%) McAfee ePO
4 9 (6.04%) Nagios
5 8 (5.37%) WSUS
6 7 (4.70%) Ansible
6 7 (4.70%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (4.70%) SCOM
7 6 (4.03%) Kubernetes
7 6 (4.03%) NetBackup
8 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (3.36%) Puppet
9 3 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (2.01%) SCVMM
9 3 (2.01%) Terraform
10 2 (1.34%) Backup Exec
10 2 (1.34%) Opsview
10 2 (1.34%) vMotion
Vendors
1 146 (97.99%) VMware
2 60 (40.27%) Microsoft
3 39 (26.17%) Citrix
4 23 (15.44%) Globalscape
5 21 (14.09%) Veeam
6 15 (10.07%) Cisco
7 14 (9.40%) HP
8 12 (8.05%) Dell
9 11 (7.38%) Symantec
10 10 (6.71%) 3PAR
11 9 (6.04%) EMC
11 9 (6.04%) McAfee
11 9 (6.04%) NetApp
12 8 (5.37%) Juniper
12 8 (5.37%) SolarWinds
13 7 (4.70%) Veritas
14 6 (4.03%) Palo Alto
14 6 (4.03%) Red Hat
15 5 (3.36%) Extreme Networks
15 5 (3.36%) Oracle