VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% 0.59% -
As % of the System Software category 0.89% 4.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% - -
75th Percentile £338 £506 -
90th Percentile - £518 -
North West median daily rate £513 £425 £506
% change year-on-year +20.59% -16.05% +19.12%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 112 67 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.89% 13.19% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 40 35
10th Percentile £212 £378 £169
25th Percentile £311 £458 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £514 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.79% +8.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £492 £576 £544
90th Percentile £603 £645 £583
North West median daily rate £435 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -13.00% +11.11% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £16.88 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.21% - -
75th Percentile £18.87 - -
90th Percentile £23.83 £56.17 -
North West median hourly rate £18.94 £22.09 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.28% +16.26% -5.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Cheshire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Warrington -12 1 £325 -31.58% 2
VMware ESXi
North West

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware