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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 421 452
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 +45
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 22 8 73
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.10% 0.048% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.19% 0.40% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 59
10th Percentile - £46,250 £48,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,875 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £57,188 £75,625
90th Percentile £112,500 £61,125 £87,500
UK median annual salary £64,125 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.59% +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 1,843 1,998 2,954
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.44% 12.10% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,143 2,163
10th Percentile £37,075 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,165 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,125 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.35% +4.00% -7.41%

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 27 July 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 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) DNS
2 6 (27.27%) DHCP
3 5 (22.73%) VPN
3 5 (22.73%) VSAN
3 5 (22.73%) WAN
4 4 (18.18%) BGP
4 4 (18.18%) MPLS
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall
5 1 (4.55%) NAS
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) SMTP
5 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Presales Solution Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Virtualisation Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Server Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
1 7 (31.82%) Replication
2 5 (22.73%) PKI
3 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Clustering
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 6 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (18.18%) Unix
5 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.55%) CentOS
5 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (22.73%) ITIL
3 5 (22.73%) Presales
4 4 (18.18%) Change Advisory Board
4 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (18.18%) SIEM
4 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (9.09%) High Availability
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (4.55%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.55%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (4.55%) DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (4.55%) Software Deployment
7 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Bicep
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) VCAP
2 5 (22.73%) VCDX
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 15 (68.18%) vSphere
2 14 (63.64%) Active Directory
3 13 (59.09%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (50.00%) VMware NSX
5 6 (27.27%) DFS Replication
6 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.55%) KVM
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) SCCM
4 1 (4.55%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.55%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) Broadcom
4 4 (18.18%) Splunk
5 2 (9.09%) Citrix
6 1 (4.55%) Apple
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam