vCenter Server Contracts in the South East

VMware vCenter Server
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 191 216
Rank change year-on-year +32 +25 -29
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 37 25 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 0.45% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.18% 3.29% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 31
10th Percentile £358 £363 £285
25th Percentile £475 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% +12.36% +6.91%
75th Percentile £608 £545 £531
90th Percentile - £698 £570
England median daily rate £525 £513 £467
% change year-on-year +2.44% +9.74% +11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +71.18% -15.84% -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 714 760 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.14% 13.60% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 561 739
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% +7.99%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £614
90th Percentile £653 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.91 £48.50 £18.31
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -37.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £35.63
90th Percentile £55.25 £75.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.16%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the South East.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the South East

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Thames Valley +26 30 £605 +21.00% 4
Berkshire +10 30 £605 +24.74% 3
Hampshire -7 5 £500 -20.00% 8
West Sussex - 1 £475 -
East Sussex - 1 £475 -
vCenter Server
England

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) OCI
3 2 (5.41%) IaaS
3 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (62.16%) DNS
2 22 (59.46%) DHCP
3 18 (48.65%) SAN
4 16 (43.24%) Firewall
5 14 (37.84%) VSAN
6 4 (10.81%) NAS
7 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
7 1 (2.70%) Skype
7 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (10.81%) MySQL
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (64.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) VMware Expert
4 5 (13.51%) Server Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) VMware Consultant
8 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.51%) PKI
3 4 (10.81%) Fat Client
3 4 (10.81%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 23 (62.16%) Windows
1 23 (62.16%) Windows Server
2 20 (54.05%) Windows Server 2019
3 19 (51.35%) Linux
4 16 (43.24%) Windows 10
4 16 (43.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (40.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (37.84%) Windows XP
7 4 (10.81%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (43.24%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (43.24%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (40.54%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (40.54%) Server Management
4 14 (37.84%) Break/Fix
4 14 (37.84%) Converged Infrastructure
4 14 (37.84%) ITIL
4 14 (37.84%) Performance Monitoring
4 14 (37.84%) Proactive Monitoring
4 14 (37.84%) Project Management
4 14 (37.84%) Storage Management
5 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.92%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (18.92%) DevOps
5 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (18.92%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (18.92%) Time Management
5 7 (18.92%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.70%) Python
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) Security Cleared
2 19 (51.35%) SC Cleared
3 16 (43.24%) DV Cleared
4 15 (40.54%) Degree
5 14 (37.84%) CCNA
5 14 (37.84%) CCNP
5 14 (37.84%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 31 (83.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (64.86%) Active Directory
3 22 (59.46%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (43.24%) Hyper-V
5 11 (29.73%) VMware NSX
6 9 (24.32%) vCloud
7 6 (16.22%) vSphere
8 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) WSUS
2 15 (40.54%) SCCM
3 14 (37.84%) EMC NetWorker
3 14 (37.84%) NetBackup
3 14 (37.84%) SCOM
4 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
5 5 (13.51%) Nessus
6 4 (10.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (10.81%) Ansible
6 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (10.81%) ZABBIX
7 3 (8.11%) vRealize
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (5.41%) Rancher
9 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (2.70%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (2.70%) vMotion
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (51.35%) Microsoft
2 19 (51.35%) Veeam
3 18 (48.65%) Oracle
4 15 (40.54%) Juniper
4 15 (40.54%) Symantec
5 14 (37.84%) 3PAR
5 14 (37.84%) Cisco
5 14 (37.84%) Dell
5 14 (37.84%) EMC
5 14 (37.84%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (37.84%) HP
5 14 (37.84%) Palo Alto
6 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.70%) Citrix
8 1 (2.70%) NETGEAR
8 1 (2.70%) Qualys
8 1 (2.70%) Splunk