vCenter Server Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware vCenter Server
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring vCenter Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vCenter Server over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 134 152
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 28 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.05% 0.42% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.33% 3.63% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 7
10th Percentile £483 £363 £381
25th Percentile £603 £425 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% +14.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £608 £519 £514
90th Percentile - £530 £551
South East median daily rate £605 £481 £425
% change year-on-year +25.71% +13.24% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

vCenter Server falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 300 331 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.20% 11.50% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 243 261
10th Percentile £213 £309 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £669 £600
90th Percentile £650 £735 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -8.97% +9.85% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 8
10th Percentile £18.80 £45.50 £10.88
25th Percentile £23.00 £58.91 £12.78
Median hourly rate £30.00 £68.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -55.88% +62.87% +5.70%
75th Percentile £39.38 £75.56 £68.75
90th Percentile £45.00 £81.98 £72.88
South East median hourly rate £38.50 £58.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.47% +173.26% -43.05%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the Thames Valley

vCenter Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for vCenter Server in the Thames Valley

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vCenter Server in the Thames Valley

vCenter Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for vCenter Server in the Thames Valley

vCenter Server
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Berkshire +18 28 £605 +24.74% 5
vCenter Server
South East

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
1 14 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) DHCP
1 18 (64.29%) DNS
1 18 (64.29%) SAN
2 14 (50.00%) Firewall
3 9 (32.14%) VSAN
4 4 (14.29%) NAS
5 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (14.29%) MySQL
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 21 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) VMware Expert
4 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Server Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) Fat Client
2 4 (14.29%) PKI
2 4 (14.29%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (64.29%) Linux
1 18 (64.29%) Windows
1 18 (64.29%) Windows Server
1 18 (64.29%) Windows Server 2019
2 14 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 14 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 14 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 4 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (53.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (50.00%) Break/Fix
3 14 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 14 (50.00%) ITIL
3 14 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 14 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (50.00%) Project Management
3 14 (50.00%) Server Management
3 14 (50.00%) Storage Management
4 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (25.00%) DevOps
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (25.00%) Time Management
4 7 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) CCNA
2 14 (50.00%) CCNP
2 14 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (50.00%) Degree
2 14 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 26 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (67.86%) Active Directory
2 19 (67.86%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (32.14%) vCloud
4 9 (32.14%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) WSUS
2 14 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 14 (50.00%) SCCM
2 14 (50.00%) SCOM
3 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 4 (14.29%) Nessus
4 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (14.29%) ZABBIX
5 2 (7.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 18 (64.29%) Oracle
2 18 (64.29%) Veeam
3 14 (50.00%) 3PAR
3 14 (50.00%) Cisco
3 14 (50.00%) Dell
3 14 (50.00%) EMC
3 14 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
3 14 (50.00%) HP
3 14 (50.00%) Juniper
3 14 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 14 (50.00%) Symantec
4 4 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix