VMware ESXi Contracts in Berkshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 100 106 129
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -30
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 18 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.91% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 7.09% 4.57% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 3
10th Percentile £459 £255 £396
25th Percentile £603 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £435 £438
Median % change year-on-year +39.08% -0.57% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £658 £472
90th Percentile - £700 £489
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
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 254 197 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.89% 10.85% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 136 227
10th Percentile £205 £320 £148
25th Percentile £335 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £534 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +12.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 4
10th Percentile - £18.63 £11.70
25th Percentile - £47.95 £14.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +33.33% -31.54%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £72.50
90th Percentile - £79.12 £81.50
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 Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Berkshire

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Berkshire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Berkshire

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in Berkshire

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire 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
Reading +5 13 £605 -13.57% 2
Bracknell - 4 £375 - 2
Wokingham - 1 £315 -
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 13 (72.22%) Azure
1 13 (72.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) DHCP
1 17 (94.44%) DNS
1 17 (94.44%) SAN
2 13 (72.22%) Firewall
3 4 (22.22%) NAS
4 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Server Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Fat Client
2 4 (22.22%) PKI
2 4 (22.22%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
1 17 (94.44%) Windows Server
1 17 (94.44%) Windows Server 2019
2 13 (72.22%) Windows 10
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2012
2 13 (72.22%) Windows Server 2016
2 13 (72.22%) Windows XP
3 4 (22.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (77.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (72.22%) Break/Fix
3 13 (72.22%) Converged Infrastructure
3 13 (72.22%) ITIL
3 13 (72.22%) Performance Monitoring
3 13 (72.22%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (72.22%) Proactive Monitoring
3 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (72.22%) Project Management
3 13 (72.22%) Server Management
3 13 (72.22%) Storage Management
4 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) CCNA
2 13 (72.22%) CCNP
2 13 (72.22%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (72.22%) Degree
2 13 (72.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (72.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 17 (94.44%) WSUS
3 13 (72.22%) EMC NetWorker
3 13 (72.22%) NetBackup
3 13 (72.22%) SCCM
3 13 (72.22%) SCOM
4 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (22.22%) Ansible
4 4 (22.22%) Nessus
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (22.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 17 (94.44%) Microsoft
2 17 (94.44%) Oracle
2 17 (94.44%) Veeam
3 13 (72.22%) 3PAR
3 13 (72.22%) Cisco
3 13 (72.22%) Dell
3 13 (72.22%) EMC
3 13 (72.22%) Extreme Networks
3 13 (72.22%) HP
3 13 (72.22%) Juniper
3 13 (72.22%) Palo Alto
3 13 (72.22%) Symantec
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix