VMware ESXi Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 120 138
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 23 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 0.95% 0.75%
As % of the System Software category 6.67% 7.89% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 19
10th Percentile £439 £354 £384
25th Percentile £586 £409 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £455 £460
Median % change year-on-year +32.97% -1.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £608 £519 £525
90th Percentile £610 £544 £570
South East median daily rate £605 £475 £439
% change year-on-year +27.37% +8.26% +2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.50 -
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £54.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -61.47% -31.88% -

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 345 355 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.91% 12.08% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 265 391
10th Percentile £175 £230 £150
25th Percentile £310 £365 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £453
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +6.20% +3.43%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.86 £10.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.18 £12.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £14.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +270.37% -36.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £53.25
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire +6 18 £605 +39.08% 4
Buckinghamshire +11 3 £590 +29.67%
Oxfordshire +4 2 £465 -7.00%
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) OCI
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.70%) Google Workspace
3 2 (8.70%) IaaS
3 2 (8.70%) PaaS
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (82.61%) DNS
2 17 (73.91%) DHCP
2 17 (73.91%) SAN
3 15 (65.22%) Firewall
4 4 (17.39%) NAS
5 3 (13.04%) SNA
5 3 (13.04%) VSAN
6 2 (8.70%) LAN
6 2 (8.70%) VPN
6 2 (8.70%) WAN
6 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (17.39%) MySQL
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) PowerShell Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Server Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Fat Client
2 4 (17.39%) PKI
2 4 (17.39%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
1 19 (82.61%) Windows Server
2 17 (73.91%) Linux
2 17 (73.91%) Windows Server 2019
3 13 (56.52%) Windows 10
3 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2012
3 13 (56.52%) Windows Server 2016
3 13 (56.52%) Windows XP
4 4 (17.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (65.22%) Server Management
3 14 (60.87%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (56.52%) Break/Fix
4 13 (56.52%) Converged Infrastructure
4 13 (56.52%) ITIL
4 13 (56.52%) Performance Monitoring
4 13 (56.52%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (56.52%) Proactive Monitoring
4 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (56.52%) Project Management
4 13 (56.52%) Storage Management
5 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
6 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (13.04%) Network Architecture
6 3 (13.04%) SDLC
7 2 (8.70%) Information Security
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (4.35%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) SC Cleared
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) CCNA
2 13 (56.52%) CCNP
2 13 (56.52%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (56.52%) Degree
2 13 (56.52%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 20 (86.96%) Active Directory
2 18 (78.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (56.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.04%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (91.30%) vCenter Server
2 17 (73.91%) WSUS
3 15 (65.22%) SCCM
4 13 (56.52%) EMC NetWorker
4 13 (56.52%) NetBackup
4 13 (56.52%) SCOM
5 7 (30.43%) Ansible
6 4 (17.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (17.39%) Nessus
6 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (17.39%) ZABBIX
7 3 (13.04%) Terraform
7 3 (13.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (82.61%) Microsoft
3 17 (73.91%) Oracle
3 17 (73.91%) Veeam
4 15 (65.22%) Cisco
5 13 (56.52%) 3PAR
5 13 (56.52%) Dell
5 13 (56.52%) EMC
5 13 (56.52%) Extreme Networks
5 13 (56.52%) HP
5 13 (56.52%) Juniper
5 13 (56.52%) Palo Alto
5 13 (56.52%) Symantec
6 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
7 2 (8.70%) Google
7 2 (8.70%) Meraki
8 1 (4.35%) Citrix