VMware ESXi Contracts in Basingstoke

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring VMware ESXi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 52 33
Rank change year-on-year +38 -19 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 13 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 9.63% 0.23% 2.28%
As % of the System Software category 30.95% 1.32% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile £563 £463 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £650 £488 £650
90th Percentile - - £665
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £501 £625
% change year-on-year +19.76% -19.84% +42.05%

All System Software Skills
Basingstoke

VMware ESXi falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 42 76 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 31.11% 17.76% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 39 26
10th Percentile £487 - £463
25th Percentile £550 £425 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.04% +16.10%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £633
90th Percentile £650 - £675
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +4.74% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.36
25th Percentile - - £15.84
Median hourly rate - - £17.67
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.80%
75th Percentile - - £20.94
90th Percentile - - £32.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £57.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% +9.40% +144.19%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Basingstoke

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Basingstoke

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) PaaS
2 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 8 (61.54%) GCP
2 8 (61.54%) IaaS
2 8 (61.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DHCP
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
1 8 (61.54%) SMTP
1 8 (61.54%) VPN
2 5 (38.46%) iSCSI
3 4 (30.77%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (61.54%) Big Data
1 8 (61.54%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (61.54%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (61.54%) Support Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (38.46%) Architect
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (38.46%) VMware Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Clustering
1 8 (61.54%) Data Centre
1 8 (61.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
1 12 (92.31%) Windows Server
2 8 (61.54%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
1 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
1 8 (61.54%) Software Deployment
2 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Edge Virtualization
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) Benchmarking
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) MCSE
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (30.77%) VCP5
3 4 (30.77%) VCP6
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) BitLocker
2 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 8 (61.54%) Hyper-V
2 8 (61.54%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (61.54%) Terminal Services
3 5 (38.46%) NFS
4 4 (30.77%) vSphere
5 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
1 8 (61.54%) Nagios
1 8 (61.54%) Puppet
1 8 (61.54%) vCenter Server
1 8 (61.54%) vMotion
2 1 (7.69%) vRealize
2 1 (7.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
3 8 (61.54%) Citrix
3 8 (61.54%) Google
3 8 (61.54%) HP
3 8 (61.54%) Symantec
4 4 (30.77%) NetApp
4 4 (30.77%) Splunk
4 4 (30.77%) Veeam