vCenter Server Jobs

VMware vCenter Server
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring vCenter Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited vCenter Server over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 641 695
Rank change year-on-year -33 +54 +305
Permanent jobs citing vCenter Server 47 291 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.81% 2.94% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 44 198 141
10th Percentile £36,550 £41,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,656 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £59,563 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.28% +8.95% +11.76%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,783 9,884 13,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 9.11% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,115 6,957 8,638
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.60% +2.63%

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 June 2025.

Salary histogram for vCenter Server in the UK

vCenter Server
Top 12 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 June 2025. 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 -42 46 £57,500 +9.00% 55
UK excluding London +16 38 £55,000 +6.28% 47
South East +39 29 £57,500 +18.56% 18
London +72 8 £70,000 -15.15% 7
Work from Home -19 6 £55,000 +1.85% 17
North of England +26 5 £52,500 -17.65% 15
Yorkshire +37 4 £48,750 -23.53% 9
Midlands +58 2 £55,000 +1.85% 3
East Midlands +48 2 £55,000 -
South West +58 1 £55,000 +7.84% 5
East of England +35 1 £62,500 +15.74% 7
North West 0 1 £53,750 - 6

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 19 (40.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (12.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.26%) Confluence
4 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (61.70%) Azure
2 17 (36.17%) AWS
3 14 (29.79%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (14.89%) GCP
5 6 (12.77%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.13%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.13%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.13%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (65.96%) DNS
2 30 (63.83%) DHCP
3 29 (61.70%) Firewall
4 11 (23.40%) Remote Desktop
5 10 (21.28%) Network Security
6 8 (17.02%) NAS
6 8 (17.02%) SAN
6 8 (17.02%) SMTP
7 7 (14.89%) VPN
8 6 (12.77%) VSAN
9 5 (10.64%) LAN
9 5 (10.64%) WAN
10 4 (8.51%) NetScaler
11 3 (6.38%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (6.38%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (6.38%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (6.38%) Junos
11 3 (6.38%) NX-OS
12 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
13 1 (2.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (31.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Finance
4 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.13%) Games
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (40.43%) Support Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Support
3 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Senior
4 7 (14.89%) Technical Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) VMware Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) VMware Specialist
5 6 (12.77%) Support Specialist
5 6 (12.77%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 6 (12.77%) VMware Support Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Help Desk Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (10.64%) Help Desk Support Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Technical Support
6 5 (10.64%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
1 1 (2.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Clustering
2 11 (23.40%) PKI
3 6 (12.77%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (8.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.13%) Online Games
6 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 37 (78.72%) Windows
2 35 (74.47%) Windows Server
3 13 (27.66%) Linux
4 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (10.64%) Mac OS
5 5 (10.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.13%) Unix
7 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (31.91%) High Availability
3 12 (25.53%) Incident Management
3 12 (25.53%) Task Automation
4 9 (19.15%) Customer Service
4 9 (19.15%) Virtual Environments
5 8 (17.02%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (17.02%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (17.02%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 7 (14.89%) Security Hardening
7 6 (12.77%) Application Virtualisation
7 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
7 6 (12.77%) Disk Encryption
7 6 (12.77%) RBAC
7 6 (12.77%) Service Management
8 5 (10.64%) BCP
8 5 (10.64%) CRM
8 5 (10.64%) ITSM
8 5 (10.64%) Migration
8 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (55.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.64%) SQL
3 3 (6.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) DV Cleared
1 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.38%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) CISSP
5 2 (4.26%) MCP
5 2 (4.26%) MCSA
5 2 (4.26%) MCSE
5 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) CCNA
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.13%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 38 (80.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (76.60%) Active Directory
3 35 (74.47%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (51.06%) Hyper-V
5 20 (42.55%) vSphere
6 13 (27.66%) Docker
7 11 (23.40%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (17.02%) BitLocker
8 8 (17.02%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (17.02%) Terminal Services
9 5 (10.64%) VMware NSX
10 3 (6.38%) Firmware
10 3 (6.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (2.13%) NFS
11 1 (2.13%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 17 (36.17%) Ansible
2 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 14 (29.79%) vMotion
3 13 (27.66%) Puppet
4 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (14.89%) PowerCLI
5 7 (14.89%) vRealize
6 6 (12.77%) Nagios
6 6 (12.77%) SCCM
7 4 (8.51%) SCOM
7 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (8.51%) Terraform
7 4 (8.51%) WSUS
8 1 (2.13%) Avamar
8 1 (2.13%) Packer
8 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.13%) SCVMM
8 1 (2.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (91.49%) VMware
2 31 (65.96%) Microsoft
3 20 (42.55%) Citrix
4 14 (29.79%) Cisco
5 13 (27.66%) HP
6 12 (25.53%) Veeam
7 7 (14.89%) Google
8 6 (12.77%) Symantec
9 5 (10.64%) Sophos
9 5 (10.64%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (8.51%) Bloomberg
10 4 (8.51%) FactSet
10 4 (8.51%) Fortinet
10 4 (8.51%) Mitel
10 4 (8.51%) NetApp
10 4 (8.51%) Refinitiv
10 4 (8.51%) SolarWinds
11 3 (6.38%) Broadcom
11 3 (6.38%) Juniper
12 2 (4.26%) Dell
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