VMware ESXi Contracts in the City of London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring VMware ESXi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 128 153
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 +31
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 3 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.094% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 1.81% 0.77% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £528 - £483
25th Percentile £552 £513 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £525 £713
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% -26.32% +31.94%
75th Percentile £637 £538 £738
90th Percentile £657 - £838
Central London median daily rate £598 £525 £713
% change year-on-year +13.81% -26.32% +31.94%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 166 261 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.14% 12.20% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 189 319
10th Percentile £234 £262 £200
25th Percentile £403 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £688 £733
90th Percentile £700 £753 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £569
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.09% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £22.95 £26.88 £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 £35.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +10.34% +36.79%
75th Percentile £108.88 £42.56 £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £47.18 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -31.31% +60.00% +7.53%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the City of London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the City of London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the City of London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the City of London

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Kernel Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas File System
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Control-M
2 1 (33.33%) Netcool
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) QRadar
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Qualys
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk