VMware vCenter Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for vCenter Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited vCenter Server over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 621 697 928
Rank change year-on-year +76 +231 -188
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 289 287 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.92% 1.94% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 204 168 206
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £41,250 £36,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +5.82% -17.83%
75th Percentile £69,063 £64,125 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £75,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% +11.11% -2.17%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,900 14,758 28,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 14.61% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,125 9,159 14,065
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

vCenter Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing vCenter Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing vCenter Server.

Salary trend for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing vCenter Server over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vCenter Server within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +109 261 £52,750 +5.50% 36
UK excluding London +2 217 £51,000 +2.00% 31
Work from Home +132 148 £60,000 +14.29% 15
South East +24 75 £48,500 -1.02% 11
London +118 69 £82,500 +37.50% 4
South West +5 53 £51,000 +27.50% 9
North of England +59 40 £63,750 +30.77% 4
Yorkshire +103 28 £63,750 +123.68% 3
Midlands -30 18 £54,000 +2.86% 5
Scotland -58 16 £65,000 +22.07% 1
West Midlands +1 13 £54,000 +8.00% 3
North West -2 11 £82,500 +50.00%
Northern Ireland +21 6 £51,000 -
Wales +7 5 - -
East of England -10 5 £45,000 -16.28% 1
East Midlands -31 5 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 1

vCenter Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 54 (18.69%) Apache
2 52 (17.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.46%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.77%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 150 (51.90%) Azure
2 98 (33.91%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (26.30%) Entra ID
4 64 (22.15%) Amazon S3
5 45 (15.57%) AWS
6 26 (9.00%) OneDrive
7 17 (5.88%) SaaS
8 15 (5.19%) Nutanix
9 12 (4.15%) OCI
10 10 (3.46%) GCP
11 9 (3.11%) IaaS
12 8 (2.77%) OpenShift
13 6 (2.08%) WhatsApp
14 5 (1.73%) PaaS
15 4 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (1.38%) Azure Storage
16 1 (0.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 98 (33.91%) Firewall
2 75 (25.95%) Internet
3 74 (25.61%) SNMP
4 63 (21.80%) VPN
5 61 (21.11%) SAN
6 60 (20.76%) DNS
7 54 (18.69%) IPsec
8 45 (15.57%) DHCP
9 26 (9.00%) NAS
10 22 (7.61%) TCP/IP
11 21 (7.27%) VSAN
11 21 (7.27%) WAN
12 20 (6.92%) LAN
13 16 (5.54%) Fibre Channel
14 14 (4.84%) Unified Communications
15 13 (4.50%) NetScaler
16 12 (4.15%) SMTP
17 11 (3.81%) iSCSI
17 11 (3.81%) Wireless
18 10 (3.46%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (22.49%) Elasticsearch
2 64 (22.15%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.23%) MySQL
4 15 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) Big Data
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.92%) JIRA
2 10 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 72 (24.91%) Finance
1 72 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.96%) Law
3 20 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (3.81%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.81%) Telecoms
5 8 (2.77%) Aerospace
5 8 (2.77%) Legal
6 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.69%) Banking
9 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.35%) French Language
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 101 (34.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 62 (21.45%) Consultant
3 54 (18.69%) NetApp Consultant
4 51 (17.65%) Senior
5 34 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 32 (11.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (8.65%) Infrastructure Support
7 25 (8.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 22 (7.61%) Lead
8 22 (7.61%) Systems Engineer
9 21 (7.27%) VMware Engineer
10 19 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 17 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
12 14 (4.84%) Backup Engineer
12 14 (4.84%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.84%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 12 (4.15%) Team Leader
14 11 (3.81%) Linux Engineer
14 11 (3.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.15%) YAML
2 56 (19.38%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.38%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.38%) ARM Templates
4 4 (1.38%) XMPP
5 2 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.35%) JSON
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 97 (33.56%) Data Centre
2 42 (14.53%) Clustering
3 19 (6.57%) PKI
4 18 (6.23%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.88%) EMC VNX
6 15 (5.19%) Replication
6 15 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.77%) EFT
8 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.73%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.04%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.04%) Smartcard
11 2 (0.69%) CMDB
11 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.35%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.35%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 247 (85.47%) Windows
2 166 (57.44%) Windows Server
3 158 (54.67%) Linux
4 55 (19.03%) Data ONTAP
4 55 (19.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 40 (13.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 40 (13.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (7.96%) CentOS
7 21 (7.27%) Ubuntu
8 20 (6.92%) Windows 10
9 12 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (4.15%) Windows XP
10 4 (1.38%) Debian
10 4 (1.38%) Rocky
11 2 (0.69%) Unix
11 2 (0.69%) VMS
12 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (36.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 92 (31.83%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (25.26%) Project Management
4 68 (23.53%) Storage Management
5 55 (19.03%) Infrastructure Management
5 55 (19.03%) Release Management
6 54 (18.69%) Actionable Insight
6 54 (18.69%) Project Planning
7 45 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (12.80%) Migration
9 35 (12.11%) Mentoring
10 34 (11.76%) ITIL
11 32 (11.07%) Disaster Recovery
12 29 (10.03%) Agile
13 27 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (8.65%) Incident Management
15 24 (8.30%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (7.61%) Time Management
17 21 (7.27%) Information Security
17 21 (7.27%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (34.95%) PowerShell
2 87 (30.10%) Python
3 31 (10.73%) Bash
4 11 (3.81%) ActionScript
5 10 (3.46%) Perl
5 10 (3.46%) VB
6 6 (2.08%) SQL
7 1 (0.35%) Java
7 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 27 (9.34%) Degree
5 21 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (6.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 18 (6.23%) CCNA
7 18 (6.23%) CCNP
8 14 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.46%) MCSE
10 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.69%) MCSA
12 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Architect
12 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.88%) SLA
2 8 (2.77%) PMO
3 4 (1.38%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.69%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.35%) GxP
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 201 (69.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 169 (58.48%) VMware ESXi
3 156 (53.98%) Active Directory
4 76 (26.30%) Docker
5 75 (25.95%) vSphere
6 20 (6.92%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.46%) OpenSSH
7 10 (3.46%) XenApp
8 8 (2.77%) Firmware
8 8 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.77%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (2.42%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.38%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.35%) KVM
11 1 (0.35%) NFS
11 1 (0.35%) Samba
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (32.53%) Ansible
2 80 (27.68%) Kubernetes
3 54 (18.69%) Prometheus
4 41 (14.19%) SCCM
5 38 (13.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (10.03%) EMC NetWorker
7 28 (9.69%) Nagios
7 28 (9.69%) Puppet
7 28 (9.69%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (9.00%) WSUS
9 20 (6.92%) Microsoft Clustering
10 16 (5.54%) Terraform
11 15 (5.19%) PowerCLI
11 15 (5.19%) SCOM
12 14 (4.84%) vRealize
13 13 (4.50%) NetBackup
14 11 (3.81%) HAProxy
15 10 (3.46%) Grafana
15 10 (3.46%) Graphite
15 10 (3.46%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 278 (96.19%) VMware
2 99 (34.26%) Microsoft
3 78 (26.99%) Red Hat
4 70 (24.22%) NetApp
5 68 (23.53%) Palo Alto
6 57 (19.72%) Veeam
7 54 (18.69%) SolidFire
8 41 (14.19%) Citrix
9 35 (12.11%) Cisco
10 30 (10.38%) EMC
11 28 (9.69%) SolarWinds
12 26 (9.00%) Dell
12 26 (9.00%) ServiceNow
13 24 (8.30%) Commvault
14 22 (7.61%) 3PAR
15 20 (6.92%) Sun
16 19 (6.57%) Brocade
17 17 (5.88%) HP
17 17 (5.88%) Oracle
18 14 (4.84%) Juniper