VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 63
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.21% 0.38% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.55% 3.17% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £385 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +57.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £412 £575 -
90th Percentile £420 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £402 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -26.91% +37.50% -5.88%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 129 63 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.75% 12.12% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 48 37
10th Percentile £189 £125 £188
25th Percentile £306 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £482 £350
Median % change year-on-year -11.78% +37.64% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £689 £475
90th Percentile £590 £700 £636
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -3.75% +25.00% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.31
25th Percentile £65.00 - £14.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £17.98
90th Percentile - - £19.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £16.00
% change year-on-year +248.23% +13.31% -9.69%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware ESXi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) GPFS
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow