VMware ESXi Contracts

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 448 517
Rank change year-on-year +9 +69 -160
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 159 286 367
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 3.42% 3.62% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 213 269
10th Percentile £350 £400 £275
25th Percentile £463 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +13.89% +2.86%
75th Percentile £608 £610 £550
90th Percentile £678 £675 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile £29.15 £44.65 £37.06
25th Percentile £42.13 £52.13 £43.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £53.50 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year +26.17% +1.80% +3.05%
75th Percentile £74.63 £76.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.65 £78.00 £69.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £52.13 £52.56
% change year-on-year +29.48% -0.81% +10.64%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
UK excluding London +56 133 £550 +10.00% 64
England +29 132 £525 - 83
South West +24 45 £525 +5.00% 13
South East +11 34 £605 +27.37% 19
Work from Home +54 32 £550 +14.57% 26
Scotland +38 20 £688 +30.95% 2
North of England +38 20 £340 -19.05% 10
London +31 19 £525 -4.55% 19
Midlands +24 12 £488 +7.04% 12
West Midlands +35 11 £488 -2.50% 10
Yorkshire +28 9 £340 - 6
North West +13 7 - - 2
North East +20 4 £560 +87.45% 2
East of England +10 2 £550 -24.14% 10

VMware ESXi
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 23 (14.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.92%) Confluence
3 5 (3.14%) IIS
4 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.26%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.63%) nginx
5 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.79%) Azure
2 16 (10.06%) AWS
2 16 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (8.81%) OCI
4 7 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.77%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.77%) IaaS
5 6 (3.77%) PaaS
6 5 (3.14%) Nutanix
6 5 (3.14%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.52%) GitHub
8 3 (1.89%) GCP
8 3 (1.89%) SaaS
9 2 (1.26%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.26%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.63%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 70 (44.03%) DNS
2 58 (36.48%) DHCP
3 47 (29.56%) Firewall
4 46 (28.93%) SAN
5 37 (23.27%) VSAN
6 18 (11.32%) LAN
6 18 (11.32%) WAN
7 16 (10.06%) TCP/IP
8 13 (8.18%) VPN
9 9 (5.66%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (5.03%) SNA
11 6 (3.77%) FTP
11 6 (3.77%) SMTP
12 5 (3.14%) NAS
12 5 (3.14%) NetScaler
13 4 (2.52%) VLAN
14 3 (1.89%) Skype
14 3 (1.89%) Unified Communications
15 2 (1.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.52%) MySQL
4 4 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (8.81%) JIRA
2 10 (6.29%) Git
3 5 (3.14%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 62 (38.99%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.58%) Public Sector
3 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.40%) Banking
4 7 (4.40%) Finance
5 5 (3.14%) Legal
6 3 (1.89%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.26%) Electronics
7 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.26%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Advertising
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (22.64%) VMware Engineer
3 16 (10.06%) Storage Engineer
4 13 (8.18%) Lead
5 10 (6.29%) Network Engineer
6 9 (5.66%) Senior
7 8 (5.03%) Architect
7 8 (5.03%) Data Centre Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) SAN Storage Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Server Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.03%) YAML
2 7 (4.40%) LDAP
3 6 (3.77%) Flash
4 4 (2.52%) REST
5 2 (1.26%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.26%) JSON
6 1 (0.63%) .NET
6 1 (0.63%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.63%) OAuth
6 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.63%) OpenID
6 1 (0.63%) SAML
6 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.82%) Data Centre
2 33 (20.75%) PKI
3 23 (14.47%) Clustering
4 8 (5.03%) Replication
5 6 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.52%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.52%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.26%) CMDB
7 2 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.26%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.63%) FMCG
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (61.64%) Windows
2 83 (52.20%) Windows Server
3 68 (42.77%) Linux
4 29 (18.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (17.61%) Windows 10
5 28 (17.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (13.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (8.18%) Unix
7 13 (8.18%) Windows XP
8 11 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (5.66%) Windows 7
10 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (4.40%) Ubuntu
12 6 (3.77%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (3.14%) Solaris
14 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.26%) CentOS
15 1 (0.63%) Android
15 1 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (39.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (16.98%) ITIL
4 26 (16.35%) Converged Infrastructure
5 22 (13.84%) Project Management
6 20 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (11.95%) Server Management
8 18 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (10.69%) High Availability
10 16 (10.06%) Migration
11 15 (9.43%) CI/CD
11 15 (9.43%) Proactive Monitoring
11 15 (9.43%) Storage Management
12 14 (8.81%) Computer Science
12 14 (8.81%) Performance Monitoring
12 14 (8.81%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (8.18%) Break/Fix
14 12 (7.55%) Agile
14 12 (7.55%) Change Management
15 11 (6.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (40.25%) PowerShell
2 24 (15.09%) Python
3 9 (5.66%) Bash
3 9 (5.66%) Java
4 7 (4.40%) C#
5 5 (3.14%) SQL
6 4 (2.52%) C
7 2 (1.26%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 94 (59.12%) Security Cleared
2 65 (40.88%) DV Cleared
3 48 (30.19%) SC Cleared
4 32 (20.13%) Degree
5 27 (16.98%) CCNA
5 27 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (12.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 17 (10.69%) CCNP
8 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.77%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.52%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.52%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.89%) MCSE
12 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) NIST
2 4 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (55.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 76 (47.80%) Active Directory
3 61 (38.36%) VMware NSX
4 39 (24.53%) vSphere
5 36 (22.64%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.66%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (5.66%) VMware Workstation
7 8 (5.03%) KVM
7 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (3.77%) BitLocker
9 6 (3.77%) Docker
9 6 (3.77%) Firmware
9 6 (3.77%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.89%) XenApp
10 3 (1.89%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.63%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.63%) vCloud
11 1 (0.63%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 101 (63.52%) vCenter Server
2 39 (24.53%) SCCM
3 33 (20.75%) Ansible
4 26 (16.35%) WSUS
5 19 (11.95%) Terraform
6 18 (11.32%) Kubernetes
7 17 (10.69%) SCOM
7 17 (10.69%) vRealize
8 13 (8.18%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (8.18%) NetBackup
9 9 (5.66%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (5.66%) vMotion
10 8 (5.03%) Nessus
11 7 (4.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (3.14%) VxRail
13 4 (2.52%) Rancher
13 4 (2.52%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 4 (2.52%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 151 (94.97%) VMware
2 79 (49.69%) Microsoft
3 40 (25.16%) Cisco
4 33 (20.75%) Veeam
5 29 (18.24%) Dell
6 24 (15.09%) HP
7 20 (12.58%) Palo Alto
8 19 (11.95%) Citrix
8 19 (11.95%) Oracle
9 18 (11.32%) EMC
9 18 (11.32%) Symantec
10 14 (8.81%) Juniper
11 13 (8.18%) 3PAR
11 13 (8.18%) Atlassian
11 13 (8.18%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (7.55%) Red Hat
13 8 (5.03%) F5
13 8 (5.03%) IBM
14 6 (3.77%) Infoblox
14 6 (3.77%) SolarWinds