vCenter Server Contracts with Work from Home Options

VMware vCenter Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 367 523
Rank change year-on-year +41 +156 -59
Contract jobs citing vCenter Server 15 90 100
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.38% 0.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.90% 2.35% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 63 54
10th Percentile £315 £420 £265
25th Percentile £391 £470 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £522 £576 £584
90th Percentile £646 £654 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £42.50 £39.43
% change year-on-year +71.18% +7.80% -12.74%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,671 3,829 7,036
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 16.04% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 2,832 5,257
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £445 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.88% +7.62%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.25 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £55.63 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £60.88 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% +161.36% -44.30%

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 12 June 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 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) VSAN
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (13.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (13.33%) Firewall
4 2 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 1 (6.67%) LAN
5 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
5 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Data Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Migration Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Migration Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Architect
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (13.33%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.67%) CentOS
5 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Migration
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Capacity Management
3 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
3 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (26.67%) Kanban
3 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
5 2 (13.33%) Server Migrations
5 2 (13.33%) Service Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) ActionScript
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.67%) MCSE
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (66.67%) vSphere
2 6 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (20.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) VxRail
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Backup Exec
4 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Nessus
4 1 (6.67%) SCOM
4 1 (6.67%) SCOrch
4 1 (6.67%) SCVMM
4 1 (6.67%) vRealize
4 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Dell
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Citrix
4 2 (13.33%) F5
5 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (6.67%) EMC
5 1 (6.67%) McAfee
5 1 (6.67%) Qualys
5 1 (6.67%) Varonis
5 1 (6.67%) Veritas