VMware ESXi Contracts in the North of England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 198 220
Rank change year-on-year +35 +22 -88
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 20 14 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 3.64% 1.70% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 24
10th Percentile £315 £319 £329
25th Percentile £319 £382 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £444 £420
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% +5.65% +5.00%
75th Percentile £435 £491 £438
90th Percentile £560 £549 £493
England median daily rate £525 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £35.87 -
25th Percentile - £42.81 £20.04
Median hourly rate - £52.13 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - +144.17% -
75th Percentile - - £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £53.82 £46.79
% change year-on-year +35.19% +15.01% -10.02%

All System Software Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 550 825 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.76% 14.51% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 613 767
10th Percentile £178 £182 £156
25th Percentile £275 £308 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +0.72%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 47
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.78 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% +52.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £18.97 £63.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.53 £25.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Yorkshire +27 9 £340 - 5
North West +12 8 £500 +11.11% 3
North East +14 3 £600 +93.55% 2
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) DNS
2 10 (50.00%) DHCP
3 7 (35.00%) Remote Desktop
3 7 (35.00%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (30.00%) SAN
5 3 (15.00%) Firewall
6 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (5.00%) LAN
6 1 (5.00%) SMTP
6 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.00%) VLAN
6 1 (5.00%) VPN
6 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) SAN Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) SAN Storage Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Storage Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) IT Technician
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (15.00%) Data Technician
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (70.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 4 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows 10
2 7 (35.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) VMS
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (35.00%) Runbook
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Validation
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
6 1 (5.00%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (5.00%) Service Migration
6 1 (5.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (30.00%) Degree
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (20.00%) A+ Certification
4 4 (20.00%) CCNA
4 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (35.00%) Firmware
4 7 (35.00%) KVM
4 7 (35.00%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (5.00%) Terminal Services
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (10.00%) vRealize
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) vMotion
3 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) EMC
4 1 (5.00%) F5
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.00%) Symantec