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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 602 691 959
Rank change year-on-year +89 +268 -218
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 291 292 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.91% 1.92% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 207 171 204
10th Percentile £34,450 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,150 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £68,125 £62,500 £67,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £79,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +11.11% -2.17%

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 10,004 15,239 28,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 14.68% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 9,353 14,177
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,420 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,185 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 17 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 2 May 2024. 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 +92 263 £52,500 +5.00% 36
UK excluding London +5 220 £51,000 +2.00% 29
Work from Home +153 147 £60,000 +14.29% 13
South East +42 80 £48,500 +0.52% 12
London +128 68 £82,500 +37.50% 6
South West -1 53 £51,000 +27.50% 7
North of England +52 38 £63,750 +41.67% 2
Yorkshire +104 26 £63,750 +145.19% 2
Midlands -9 18 £54,000 +5.37% 6
Scotland -56 16 £65,000 +22.07% 1
West Midlands +25 13 £54,000 +8.00% 4
North West 0 11 £82,500 +50.00%
Northern Ireland +34 6 £51,000 -
Wales +13 5 - -
East of England -18 5 £45,000 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -32 5 - - 2
North East - 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 54 (18.56%) Apache
2 52 (17.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.44%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 149 (51.20%) Azure
2 95 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (25.09%) Entra ID
4 64 (21.99%) Amazon S3
5 45 (15.46%) AWS
6 24 (8.25%) OneDrive
7 17 (5.84%) SaaS
8 15 (5.15%) Nutanix
9 12 (4.12%) OCI
10 10 (3.44%) GCP
11 8 (2.75%) IaaS
11 8 (2.75%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.06%) WhatsApp
13 4 (1.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.37%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.37%) PaaS
14 1 (0.34%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 98 (33.68%) Firewall
2 75 (25.77%) Internet
3 74 (25.43%) SNMP
4 63 (21.65%) VPN
5 59 (20.27%) DNS
5 59 (20.27%) SAN
6 54 (18.56%) IPsec
7 44 (15.12%) DHCP
8 24 (8.25%) NAS
9 22 (7.56%) TCP/IP
10 21 (7.22%) VSAN
10 21 (7.22%) WAN
11 20 (6.87%) LAN
12 16 (5.50%) Fibre Channel
13 14 (4.81%) Unified Communications
14 13 (4.47%) NetScaler
15 12 (4.12%) iSCSI
15 12 (4.12%) SMTP
16 11 (3.78%) Wireless
17 10 (3.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (22.34%) Elasticsearch
2 64 (21.99%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.19%) MySQL
4 14 (4.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.34%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (6.87%) JIRA
2 10 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.03%) GitLab
General
1 71 (24.40%) Finance
1 71 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 20 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (6.87%) Law
3 11 (3.78%) Public Sector
3 11 (3.78%) Telecoms
4 8 (2.75%) Aerospace
5 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.41%) Legal
6 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Banking
8 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.34%) French Language
9 1 (0.34%) Front Office
9 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.34%) Marketing
9 1 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 102 (35.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 62 (21.31%) Consultant
3 54 (18.56%) NetApp Consultant
4 51 (17.53%) Senior
5 38 (13.06%) Support Engineer
6 32 (11.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (8.59%) Infrastructure Support
7 25 (8.59%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 22 (7.56%) Lead
9 21 (7.22%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (7.22%) VMware Engineer
10 19 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (6.19%) Storage Engineer
12 15 (5.15%) Backup Engineer
12 15 (5.15%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.15%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 15 (5.15%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 12 (4.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 12 (4.12%) Team Leader
14 11 (3.78%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.99%) YAML
2 56 (19.24%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.37%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.37%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.37%) XMPP
5 2 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.34%) JSON
6 1 (0.34%) OAuth
6 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 97 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 41 (14.09%) Clustering
3 18 (6.19%) EMC VNX
3 18 (6.19%) PKI
3 18 (6.19%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.15%) Replication
4 15 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.75%) EFT
6 6 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.03%) Smartcard
9 2 (0.69%) CMDB
9 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.34%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 249 (85.57%) Windows
2 167 (57.39%) Windows Server
3 162 (55.67%) Linux
4 55 (18.90%) Data ONTAP
5 54 (18.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 40 (13.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 39 (13.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (7.90%) CentOS
9 21 (7.22%) Ubuntu
10 19 (6.53%) Windows 10
11 12 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (4.12%) Windows XP
12 4 (1.37%) Debian
12 4 (1.37%) Rocky
13 2 (0.69%) VMS
14 1 (0.34%) Unix
14 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (36.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 92 (31.62%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (25.09%) Project Management
4 68 (23.37%) Storage Management
5 54 (18.56%) Actionable Insight
5 54 (18.56%) Infrastructure Management
5 54 (18.56%) Project Planning
5 54 (18.56%) Release Management
6 45 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (12.03%) Migration
8 34 (11.68%) ITIL
9 33 (11.34%) Mentoring
10 32 (11.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 29 (9.97%) Agile
11 29 (9.97%) Incident Management
12 27 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (8.25%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (7.56%) Time Management
15 21 (7.22%) Information Security
15 21 (7.22%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.36%) PowerShell
2 87 (29.90%) Python
3 31 (10.65%) Bash
4 11 (3.78%) ActionScript
5 10 (3.44%) Perl
5 10 (3.44%) VB
6 5 (1.72%) SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Java
7 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (31.27%) Security Cleared
2 65 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.93%) Degree
5 21 (7.22%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (6.19%) CCNA
6 18 (6.19%) CCNP
6 18 (6.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 13 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.09%) MCSE
9 8 (2.75%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.34%) MCSA
11 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.84%) SLA
2 8 (2.75%) PMO
3 4 (1.37%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.34%) GxP
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 205 (70.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 171 (58.76%) VMware ESXi
3 157 (53.95%) Active Directory
4 76 (26.12%) Docker
5 74 (25.43%) vSphere
6 20 (6.87%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.44%) OpenSSH
7 10 (3.44%) XenApp
8 8 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.75%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.41%) Firmware
9 7 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (2.41%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.37%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.34%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) NFS
11 1 (0.34%) Samba
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (32.30%) Ansible
2 80 (27.49%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.56%) Prometheus
4 41 (14.09%) SCCM
5 38 (13.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (10.31%) EMC NetWorker
7 29 (9.97%) Nagios
8 28 (9.62%) Puppet
9 27 (9.28%) Single Sign-On
10 26 (8.93%) WSUS
11 20 (6.87%) Microsoft Clustering
12 16 (5.50%) Terraform
13 15 (5.15%) PowerCLI
14 14 (4.81%) SCOM
14 14 (4.81%) vRealize
15 13 (4.47%) NetBackup
16 11 (3.78%) HAProxy
17 10 (3.44%) Grafana
17 10 (3.44%) Graphite
17 10 (3.44%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 280 (96.22%) VMware
2 96 (32.99%) Microsoft
3 78 (26.80%) Red Hat
4 70 (24.05%) NetApp
5 68 (23.37%) Palo Alto
6 58 (19.93%) Veeam
7 54 (18.56%) SolidFire
8 41 (14.09%) Citrix
9 35 (12.03%) Cisco
10 31 (10.65%) EMC
11 29 (9.97%) SolarWinds
12 26 (8.93%) Dell
13 25 (8.59%) ServiceNow
14 24 (8.25%) Commvault
15 22 (7.56%) 3PAR
16 20 (6.87%) Brocade
16 20 (6.87%) Sun
17 17 (5.84%) HP
18 16 (5.50%) Oracle
19 14 (4.81%) Juniper