VMware ESXi Contracts in Central London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 124 132 160
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 +23
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 5 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.041% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 2.23% 0.37% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £528 - £450
25th Percentile £552 - £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £455 £541
Median % change year-on-year +31.32% -15.94% -1.59%
75th Percentile £637 - £697
90th Percentile £657 - £738
London median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 224 267 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.22% 10.92% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 203 325
10th Percentile £237 £214 £213
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -15.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £738 £788
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £21.48 - £21.40
25th Percentile £21.81 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%
75th Percentile £66.71 - £24.50
90th Percentile £139.19 £46.15 £24.80
London median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Central London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Central London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Central London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in Central London

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +12 5 £598 +31.32% 1
VMware ESXi
London

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (40.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Serena SBM
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (40.00%) BYOD
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
4 1 (20.00%) NFS
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas File System
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Control-M
1 2 (40.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) QRadar
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (20.00%) Netcool
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Serena
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase