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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 125 152
Rank change year-on-year 0 +27 +42
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.22% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 1.16% 1.74% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £589
25th Percentile - £513 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £581 £759
90th Percentile - £608 £866
London median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% -

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 172 288 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.82% 12.41% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 203 282
10th Percentile £265 £314 £238
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £669 £709
90th Percentile £688 £760 £825
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £22.89 - £23.88
25th Percentile £24.23 £77.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £26.45 £85.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -68.88% +134.48% +76.83%
75th Percentile £28.35 £92.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.49 - £49.63
London median hourly rate £25.58 £23.80 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.46% -60.33% +41.18%

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
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 18 September 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 +7 1 - - 1
West End of London - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DKIM
1 1 (50.00%) DMARC
1 1 (50.00%) PSTN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow