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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 127 139
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +47
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.10% 0.38% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 1.04% 3.27% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £487
25th Percentile £505 £513 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -17.65% +18.06%
75th Percentile £515 £581 £750
90th Percentile - £608 £863
London median daily rate £528 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +17.22% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
London median hourly rate - £112.00 -

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 193 275 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.75% 11.47% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 177 240
10th Percentile £276 £283 £259
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £506
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% +9.93% -8.12%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £669
90th Percentile £688 £736 £814
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £84.40 -
25th Percentile - £94.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £43.84
% change year-on-year -3.36% -45.71% +39.17%

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 13 December 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 £510 -2.86%
West End of London - 1 - - 1
City of Westminster - 1 - - 1
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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DKIM
1 1 (50.00%) DMARC
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) PSTN
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
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%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
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 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VCAP
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow