VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Central London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 118 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.23% 0.21% -
As % of the System Software category 3.24% 2.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £528 -
25th Percentile £463 £552 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% - -
75th Percentile £638 £637 -
90th Percentile - £657 -
London median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -4.55%

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 185 196 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.24% 10.28% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 139 218
10th Percentile £227 £220 £247
25th Percentile £413 £369 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year - +6.33% -14.13%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £655
90th Percentile £675 £694 £740
London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £19.56 £21.55 -
25th Percentile £20.04 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% -33.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £41.72 £30.25 -
90th Percentile £52.52 £124.60 £46.15
London median hourly rate £52.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +82.61% +27.78% -62.50%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Central London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Central London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Central London

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware ESXi

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 8 June 2026. 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 -8 6 £550 -7.95% 3
VMware ESXi
London

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) VSAN
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) SMTP
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) SUSE
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) VCAP
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) vSphere
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (33.33%) BitLocker
4 2 (33.33%) Docker
4 2 (33.33%) Firmware
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (33.33%) Terminal Services
4 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Nagios
3 2 (33.33%) PowerCLI
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) vMotion
4 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (16.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) EMC