VMware ESXi Contracts in the South West

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 132 154
Rank change year-on-year +25 +22 -36
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 45 42 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.41% 1.15% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 12.57% 7.12% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 12
10th Percentile £428 £416 £165
25th Percentile £463 £452 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +6.44% +10.53%
75th Percentile £593 £584 £638
90th Percentile £645 £634 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 - £49.28
Median hourly rate £72.75 - £52.56
75th Percentile £76.31 - £55.83
90th Percentile £77.33 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £52.82 £46.79
% change year-on-year +27.80% +12.88% -8.25%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 358 590 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.23% 16.09% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 445 441
10th Percentile £153 £200 £185
25th Percentile £263 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year - +4.82% +9.03%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £700 £719 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 45 20
10th Percentile - £13.90 £15.79
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.25 £36.12
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £49.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +21.24% +24.25%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.42 £61.74
England median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +163.16% -1.30%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South West.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Wiltshire +6 23 £475 -13.64% 13
Bristol +27 14 £500 -10.71% 1
Gloucestershire +7 4 £600 +20.00% 4
Devon +2 4 £550 +37.50%
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (24.44%) Confluence
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) nginx
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.44%) AWS
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 20 (44.44%) VSAN
2 12 (26.67%) Firewall
2 12 (26.67%) SAN
3 6 (13.33%) DNS
3 6 (13.33%) FTP
3 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.89%) DHCP
4 4 (8.89%) LAN
4 4 (8.89%) WAN
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (4.44%) Skype
5 2 (4.44%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.22%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.22%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JIRA
2 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
General
1 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) Electronics
6 2 (4.44%) Finance
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) VMware Engineer
2 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Network Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Senior
5 4 (8.89%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Flash
2 4 (8.89%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (35.56%) PKI
2 13 (28.89%) Data Centre
3 9 (20.00%) Clustering
4 7 (15.56%) Replication
5 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (64.44%) Linux
2 25 (55.56%) Windows
3 21 (46.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
4 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.44%) Unix
5 2 (4.44%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (28.89%) Converged Infrastructure
3 10 (22.22%) Agile
4 8 (17.78%) Critical Thinking
4 8 (17.78%) High Availability
5 7 (15.56%) Change Management
5 7 (15.56%) ITIL
5 7 (15.56%) NsoIT
5 7 (15.56%) Service Management
5 7 (15.56%) System Testing
5 7 (15.56%) Validation
5 7 (15.56%) Waterfall
6 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (13.33%) Power Management
7 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
7 4 (8.89%) DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.89%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.89%) Bash
2 4 (8.89%) C
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) C#
3 2 (4.44%) Java
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (82.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (57.78%) DV Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 9 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (17.78%) Degree
6 6 (13.33%) CCNA
6 6 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (13.33%) Master's Degree
7 4 (8.89%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) MCSE
8 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (82.22%) VMware NSX
2 21 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (42.22%) vSphere
4 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
5 2 (4.44%) Docker
5 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.44%) XenApp
5 2 (4.44%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (48.89%) vCenter Server
2 9 (20.00%) Ansible
3 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (8.89%) SCCM
4 4 (8.89%) Terraform
5 2 (4.44%) VxRail
5 2 (4.44%) WSUS
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (86.67%) VMware
2 20 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 13 (28.89%) Atlassian
4 12 (26.67%) Cisco
5 10 (22.22%) Veeam
6 7 (15.56%) Palo Alto
7 6 (13.33%) CheckPoint
8 4 (8.89%) CyberArk
9 3 (6.67%) Dell
10 2 (4.44%) Citrix
10 2 (4.44%) HP
10 2 (4.44%) SAP
10 2 (4.44%) Splunk
11 1 (2.22%) Ivanti
11 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
11 1 (2.22%) Veritas