Hybrid/Remote vCenter Server Job Trends

VMware vCenter Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring vCenter Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 384 490
Rank change year-on-year +1 +106 +92
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 20 17 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.28% 0.95% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15 17 77
10th Percentile - £43,974 £47,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,956 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +43.52% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £66,188 £92,500 -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,568 1,787 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.89% 13.51% 11.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,351 3,072
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,625 £115,000 £102,500
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing vCenter Server and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

vCenter Server job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

vCenter Server
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vCenter Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vCenter Server

vCenter Server
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

vCenter Server salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

vCenter Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (30.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) DNS
2 10 (50.00%) DHCP
3 6 (30.00%) VPN
4 5 (25.00%) WAN
5 4 (20.00%) BGP
5 4 (20.00%) MPLS
5 4 (20.00%) SAN
6 2 (10.00%) Firewall
6 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.00%) SMTP
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Virtualisation Technical Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Replication
2 4 (20.00%) PKI
3 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (35.00%) Linux
4 4 (20.00%) Unix
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.00%) CentOS
5 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) SIEM
4 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security
6 1 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
1 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (85.00%) Active Directory
1 17 (85.00%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (50.00%) vSphere
3 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (30.00%) DFS Replication
4 6 (30.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.00%) KVM
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) SCCM
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) Veeam
4 4 (20.00%) 3PAR
4 4 (20.00%) NetApp
4 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (20.00%) Splunk
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow