VMware ESXi Contracts in England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VMware ESXi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 422 493
Rank change year-on-year -2 +71 -155
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 131 226 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 3.28% 3.55% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 166 222
10th Percentile £325 £400 £275
25th Percentile £436 £449 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £608 £625 £550
90th Percentile £636 £694 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £445
% change year-on-year +5.00% +12.36% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 6
10th Percentile £65.18 £42.81 £30.68
25th Percentile £67.31 £52.13 £41.87
Median hourly rate £72.75 £53.50 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year +35.98% +14.34% -10.02%
75th Percentile £76.31 £76.13 £54.02
90th Percentile £77.33 £78.00 £69.17
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £54.50 £52.56
% change year-on-year +33.49% +3.70% +1.07%

All System Software Skills
England

VMware ESXi is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,000 6,362 9,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.86% 12.95% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 4,605 7,110
10th Percentile £197 £204 £196
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 235 276
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.36 £13.40
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.38 £33.28
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.65 £56.27
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +18 42 £500 - 12
South East +1 34 £605 +27.37% 16
North of England +33 19 £340 -22.29% 10
London +35 18 £538 -2.27% 21
Midlands +36 16 £400 -12.17% 10
West Midlands +33 15 £400 -5.88% 9
Yorkshire +35 9 £340 - 5
North West +20 7 - - 3
North East +16 3 £600 +100.84% 2
East of England -1 2 £550 -20.00% 7
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (12.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) IIS
3 1 (0.76%) nginx
3 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.19%) Azure
2 15 (11.45%) OCI
3 14 (10.69%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (8.40%) AWS
5 5 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.82%) IaaS
5 5 (3.82%) PaaS
6 4 (3.05%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.05%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.29%) GCP
7 3 (2.29%) GitHub
7 3 (2.29%) SaaS
8 2 (1.53%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.53%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 61 (46.56%) DNS
2 55 (41.98%) DHCP
3 46 (35.11%) SAN
4 38 (29.01%) Firewall
5 28 (21.37%) VSAN
6 16 (12.21%) LAN
6 16 (12.21%) WAN
7 13 (9.92%) TCP/IP
8 12 (9.16%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (6.87%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (6.11%) SNA
11 7 (5.34%) VPN
12 6 (4.58%) FTP
13 5 (3.82%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (3.82%) NAS
14 4 (3.05%) NetScaler
15 2 (1.53%) Cisco ISE
15 2 (1.53%) Skype
15 2 (1.53%) Wireless
16 1 (0.76%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.05%) MySQL
2 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Git
1 10 (7.63%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.53%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 50 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.63%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.34%) Banking
3 7 (5.34%) Finance
4 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.05%) Legal
6 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.53%) Electronics
6 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.53%) Marketing
6 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Advertising
7 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (24.43%) VMware Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (6.11%) Data Centre Engineer
4 8 (6.11%) Lead
4 8 (6.11%) Network Engineer
4 8 (6.11%) Senior
4 8 (6.11%) Server Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Administrator
5 6 (4.58%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) SAN Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) SAN Storage Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (4.58%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) IT Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (3.82%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.11%) YAML
2 5 (3.82%) Flash
3 4 (3.05%) REST
4 2 (1.53%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.53%) LDAP
5 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.76%) JSON
5 1 (0.76%) OAuth
5 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.76%) OpenID
5 1 (0.76%) SAML
5 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (34.35%) Data Centre
2 28 (21.37%) PKI
3 14 (10.69%) Clustering
4 7 (5.34%) Replication
5 6 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.05%) Fat Client
6 4 (3.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (3.05%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.76%) CMDB
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 80 (61.07%) Windows
2 67 (51.15%) Linux
2 67 (51.15%) Windows Server
3 24 (18.32%) Windows 10
4 23 (17.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (16.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (16.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (10.69%) Windows XP
8 12 (9.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (9.16%) Unix
9 8 (6.11%) Ubuntu
9 8 (6.11%) Windows 7
10 5 (3.82%) Solaris
10 5 (3.82%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (3.05%) CentOS
12 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (19.85%) Converged Infrastructure
4 25 (19.08%) ITIL
5 21 (16.03%) Project Management
6 19 (14.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (14.50%) Server Management
7 16 (12.21%) Storage Management
8 15 (11.45%) CI/CD
8 15 (11.45%) Performance Monitoring
8 15 (11.45%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (11.45%) Proactive Monitoring
9 14 (10.69%) Break/Fix
10 12 (9.16%) Change Management
10 12 (9.16%) Computer Science
11 11 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (8.40%) Migration
12 10 (7.63%) Data Protection
12 10 (7.63%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.40%) PowerShell
2 19 (14.50%) Python
3 9 (6.87%) Bash
4 8 (6.11%) Java
5 7 (5.34%) C#
6 4 (3.05%) C
6 4 (3.05%) SQL
7 1 (0.76%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (57.25%) Security Cleared
2 52 (39.69%) DV Cleared
3 37 (28.24%) SC Cleared
4 29 (22.14%) Degree
5 23 (17.56%) CCNA
5 23 (17.56%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (13.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 14 (10.69%) CCNP
8 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.82%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.05%) A+ Certification
10 4 (3.05%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (3.05%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.53%) MCSE
13 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.76%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) NIST
2 4 (3.05%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 80 (61.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 60 (45.80%) Active Directory
3 56 (42.75%) VMware NSX
4 37 (28.24%) vSphere
5 26 (19.85%) Hyper-V
6 7 (5.34%) KVM
6 7 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (5.34%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (4.58%) Firmware
8 5 (3.82%) Docker
8 5 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (3.82%) VMware Server
9 2 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.76%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.76%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.76%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.76%) XenApp
10 1 (0.76%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 87 (66.41%) vCenter Server
2 36 (27.48%) SCCM
3 29 (22.14%) Ansible
4 23 (17.56%) WSUS
5 18 (13.74%) SCOM
5 18 (13.74%) Terraform
6 16 (12.21%) Kubernetes
7 14 (10.69%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (10.69%) NetBackup
8 10 (7.63%) vRealize
9 9 (6.87%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (6.11%) Nessus
11 5 (3.82%) VxRail
12 4 (3.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (3.05%) Rancher
12 4 (3.05%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 4 (3.05%) ZABBIX
13 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.76%) Puppet
14 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 125 (95.42%) VMware
2 62 (47.33%) Microsoft
3 37 (28.24%) Cisco
4 33 (25.19%) Veeam
5 27 (20.61%) Dell
6 23 (17.56%) HP
7 21 (16.03%) Palo Alto
8 19 (14.50%) Oracle
9 17 (12.98%) EMC
10 16 (12.21%) Symantec
11 14 (10.69%) 3PAR
11 14 (10.69%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (10.69%) Juniper
12 11 (8.40%) Atlassian
13 9 (6.87%) Red Hat
14 8 (6.11%) Citrix
14 8 (6.11%) IBM
15 6 (4.58%) CheckPoint
16 5 (3.82%) SolarWinds
17 4 (3.05%) Splunk