vCenter Server Contracts with Work from Home Options

VMware vCenter Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 330 379 539
Rank change year-on-year +49 +160 -86
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 17 89 83
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.04% 2.19% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 61 43
10th Percentile £315 £419 £275
25th Percentile £356 £456 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +6.12% +12.97%
75th Percentile £509 £575 £606
90th Percentile £646 £654 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +58.82% -15.84% +11.60%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,632 4,056 7,087
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.03% 16.46% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 3,003 5,288
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £472 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.44% +9.76%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £561 £565
% change year-on-year -8.38% -0.71% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 75 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £25.28 £15.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.75 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% +88.57% -24.28%
75th Percentile £56.88 £76.25 £64.19
90th Percentile £62.75 £87.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%

vCenter Server
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vCenter Server trend for jobs with a WFH option

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing vCenter Server.

vCenter Server daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

vCenter Server
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

vCenter Server daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vCenter Server
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing vCenter Server.

vCenter Server hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub
2 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 6 (35.29%) VSAN
3 5 (29.41%) DHCP
4 4 (23.53%) Firewall
5 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
6 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
6 1 (5.88%) SAN
6 1 (5.88%) VPN
6 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Consultant
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Data Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Migration Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Migration Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
1 4 (23.53%) VxBlock/Vblock
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
1 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) CentOS
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Migration
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Capacity Management
3 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
3 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Kanban
3 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
4 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (11.76%) Service Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) ActionScript
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (52.94%) vSphere
3 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
4 6 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
7 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
7 1 (5.88%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) VxRail
2 3 (17.65%) SCCM
2 3 (17.65%) WSUS
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Nessus
4 1 (5.88%) SCOM
4 1 (5.88%) SCOrch
4 1 (5.88%) SCVMM
4 1 (5.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Dell
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) Citrix
4 2 (11.76%) F5
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.88%) Qualys
5 1 (5.88%) Varonis