vCenter Server Contracts in the North of England

VMware vCenter Server
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for vCenter Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vCenter Server over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 178 230
Rank change year-on-year +6 +52 -56
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 14 34 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.61% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.64% 3.98% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile £314 £321 £255
25th Percentile £319 £344 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £438 £415
Median % change year-on-year -22.29% +5.42% +10.67%
75th Percentile £613 £475 £506
90th Percentile £635 £535 £538
England median daily rate £525 £513 £458
% change year-on-year +2.44% +12.02% +8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 24 1
10th Percentile - £26.28 -
25th Percentile - £29.30 £20.04
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - +99.06% -
75th Percentile - £49.43 £22.67
90th Percentile - £51.35 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +71.18% -15.84% -

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 531 855 1,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.44% 15.30% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 624 811
10th Percentile £237 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £445 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £619
90th Percentile £645 £700 £675
England median daily rate £521 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 51 19
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.25 £15.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.27 £16.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -19.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.52 £41.85
90th Percentile £80.38 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.89%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the North of England

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -4 9 £575 +29.58%
Yorkshire - 4 £338 - 4
North East +10 1 £600 +93.55%
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
1 6 (42.86%) SAN
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
3 4 (28.57%) Firewall
4 3 (21.43%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (7.14%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) SMTP
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) VSAN
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) SAN Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) SAN Storage Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) Storage Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (14.29%) Data Technician
4 2 (14.29%) IT Technician
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (14.29%) Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Runbook
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.14%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (7.14%) High Availability
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Server Building
4 1 (7.14%) Service Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Software Deployment
4 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (21.43%) A+ Certification
2 3 (21.43%) CCNA
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) Firmware
3 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (21.43%) KVM
5 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (21.43%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (7.14%) Terminal Services
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (7.14%) Nagios
1 1 (7.14%) SCOM
1 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
1 1 (7.14%) vMotion
1 1 (7.14%) VxRail
1 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) Symantec
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix
5 1 (7.14%) EMC
5 1 (7.14%) F5
5 1 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) Veeam