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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 118 131
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +42
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.13% 0.25% 0.039%
As % of the System Software category 1.60% 2.04% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £528 -
25th Percentile £463 £552 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £598 £455
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% +31.32% -23.53%
75th Percentile £501 £637 -
90th Percentile £510 £657 -
London median daily rate £535 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +9.74% -11.36% -

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 187 245 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.18% 12.42% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 166 213
10th Percentile £245 £220 £214
25th Percentile £406 £386 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +11.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £710 £702
London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.29 -
25th Percentile - £23.85 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%
75th Percentile - £106.98 -
90th Percentile £46.02 £155.29 £46.15
London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £22.30
% change year-on-year -3.71% +18.61% -18.91%

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
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 27 March 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 -17 3 £475 -20.50% 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) SUSE
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) VCAP
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCLI
3 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Dell