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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 618 738 949
Rank change year-on-year +120 +211 -240
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 290 259 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.25% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.90% 1.67% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 206 175 200
10th Percentile £34,063 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,050 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 10,014 15,475 27,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 14.77% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,250 9,481 14,202
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £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 £86,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +142 263 £52,500 +5.00% 40
UK excluding London +29 220 £51,000 +2.00% 33
Work from Home +142 145 £55,750 +6.19% 14
South East +54 81 £48,500 +2.11% 15
London +150 67 £82,500 +40.43% 4
South West +6 53 £51,000 +27.50% 8
North of England +58 38 £63,750 +41.67% 3
Yorkshire +110 26 £63,750 +145.19% 3
Midlands -7 18 £54,000 +5.37% 6
Scotland -55 15 £65,000 +22.07%
West Midlands +27 13 £54,000 +8.00% 5
North West +6 11 £82,500 +53.49%
Northern Ireland +28 6 £51,000 -
Wales +11 5 - -
East of England -10 5 £45,000 -14.29% 1
East Midlands -31 5 - - 1
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 (18.62%) Apache
2 52 (17.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 147 (50.69%) Azure
2 94 (32.41%) Microsoft 365
3 73 (25.17%) Entra ID
4 64 (22.07%) Amazon S3
5 45 (15.52%) AWS
6 24 (8.28%) OneDrive
7 17 (5.86%) SaaS
8 15 (5.17%) Nutanix
9 12 (4.14%) OCI
10 10 (3.45%) GCP
11 8 (2.76%) IaaS
11 8 (2.76%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.72%) WhatsApp
13 4 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.38%) Azure Storage
13 4 (1.38%) PaaS
14 1 (0.34%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 97 (33.45%) Firewall
2 75 (25.86%) Internet
3 74 (25.52%) SNMP
4 62 (21.38%) VPN
5 58 (20.00%) DNS
5 58 (20.00%) SAN
6 54 (18.62%) IPsec
7 44 (15.17%) DHCP
8 24 (8.28%) NAS
9 21 (7.24%) TCP/IP
9 21 (7.24%) VSAN
9 21 (7.24%) WAN
10 20 (6.90%) LAN
11 16 (5.52%) Fibre Channel
12 14 (4.83%) Unified Communications
13 12 (4.14%) NetScaler
13 12 (4.14%) SMTP
14 11 (3.79%) iSCSI
14 11 (3.79%) Wireless
15 10 (3.45%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (22.41%) Elasticsearch
2 64 (22.07%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.21%) MySQL
4 13 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.34%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (6.90%) JIRA
2 10 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.03%) GitLab
General
1 71 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 70 (24.14%) Finance
3 20 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.90%) Law
4 11 (3.79%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.79%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.76%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.41%) Legal
7 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Banking
9 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) French Language
10 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.34%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 100 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 62 (21.38%) Consultant
3 54 (18.62%) NetApp Consultant
4 51 (17.59%) Senior
5 39 (13.45%) Support Engineer
6 32 (11.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (8.62%) Infrastructure Support
7 25 (8.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 22 (7.59%) Lead
9 21 (7.24%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (7.24%) VMware Engineer
10 19 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (6.21%) Storage Engineer
12 15 (5.17%) Backup Engineer
12 15 (5.17%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 15 (5.17%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 13 (4.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 12 (4.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 12 (4.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.07%) YAML
2 56 (19.31%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.38%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.38%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.38%) XMPP
5 2 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.34%) JSON
6 1 (0.34%) OAuth
6 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 97 (33.45%) Data Centre
2 41 (14.14%) Clustering
3 18 (6.21%) EMC VNX
3 18 (6.21%) PKI
4 17 (5.86%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.17%) Replication
5 15 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.76%) EFT
7 5 (1.72%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.72%) Onboarding
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%) FlexPod
10 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.34%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 248 (85.52%) Windows
2 167 (57.59%) Windows Server
3 162 (55.86%) Linux
4 55 (18.97%) Data ONTAP
5 53 (18.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 39 (13.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 38 (13.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (7.93%) CentOS
9 21 (7.24%) Ubuntu
10 18 (6.21%) Windows 10
11 12 (4.14%) Windows XP
12 11 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.38%) Debian
13 4 (1.38%) Rocky
14 2 (0.69%) VMS
15 1 (0.34%) Unix
15 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (36.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 92 (31.72%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (25.17%) Project Management
4 68 (23.45%) Storage Management
5 54 (18.62%) Actionable Insight
5 54 (18.62%) Infrastructure Management
5 54 (18.62%) Project Planning
5 54 (18.62%) Release Management
6 45 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (12.07%) Migration
8 34 (11.72%) ITIL
9 33 (11.38%) Mentoring
10 32 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (10.34%) Incident Management
12 29 (10.00%) Agile
13 27 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
14 24 (8.28%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (7.59%) Problem Management
15 22 (7.59%) Time Management
16 21 (7.24%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 100 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 87 (30.00%) Python
3 31 (10.69%) Bash
4 11 (3.79%) ActionScript
5 10 (3.45%) Perl
5 10 (3.45%) VB
6 5 (1.72%) SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Java
7 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.76%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.72%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.97%) Degree
5 21 (7.24%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (6.21%) CCNA
6 18 (6.21%) CCNP
7 17 (5.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.76%) MCSE
10 7 (2.41%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.34%) MCSA
12 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.86%) SLA
2 8 (2.76%) PMO
3 4 (1.38%) 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 (70.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 170 (58.62%) VMware ESXi
3 156 (53.79%) Active Directory
4 76 (26.21%) Docker
5 73 (25.17%) vSphere
6 20 (6.90%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.45%) OpenSSH
7 10 (3.45%) XenApp
8 8 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (2.41%) Firmware
9 7 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (2.41%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.41%) XenDesktop
10 4 (1.38%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.34%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) Samba
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (32.41%) Ansible
2 80 (27.59%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.62%) Prometheus
4 41 (14.14%) SCCM
5 38 (13.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (10.34%) EMC NetWorker
7 29 (10.00%) Nagios
8 28 (9.66%) Puppet
9 27 (9.31%) Single Sign-On
10 26 (8.97%) WSUS
11 20 (6.90%) Microsoft Clustering
12 16 (5.52%) Terraform
13 15 (5.17%) PowerCLI
14 14 (4.83%) SCOM
14 14 (4.83%) vRealize
15 13 (4.48%) NetBackup
16 10 (3.45%) Grafana
16 10 (3.45%) Graphite
16 10 (3.45%) IBM BigFix
16 10 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 279 (96.21%) VMware
2 95 (32.76%) Microsoft
3 77 (26.55%) Red Hat
4 70 (24.14%) NetApp
5 68 (23.45%) Palo Alto
6 57 (19.66%) Veeam
7 54 (18.62%) SolidFire
8 40 (13.79%) Citrix
9 34 (11.72%) Cisco
10 31 (10.69%) EMC
11 29 (10.00%) SolarWinds
12 26 (8.97%) Dell
13 25 (8.62%) ServiceNow
14 24 (8.28%) Commvault
15 22 (7.59%) 3PAR
16 20 (6.90%) Brocade
16 20 (6.90%) Sun
17 17 (5.86%) HP
18 16 (5.52%) Oracle
19 14 (4.83%) Juniper