VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 120 124
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +33
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 13 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.57% 0.056% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 7.07% 0.70% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.22%
75th Percentile £638 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £500 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -22.22%

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 184 143 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.07% 8.02% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 101 177
10th Percentile £225 £263 £345
25th Percentile £411 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £681 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £20.20 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £21.63 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.60 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year +2.08% -68.88% +134.48%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the City of London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware ESXi

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 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the City of London

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) IaaS
2 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
2 3 (23.08%) PaaS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
4 3 (23.08%) SMTP
4 3 (23.08%) VSAN
5 2 (15.38%) DMZ
5 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (7.69%) LAN
6 1 (7.69%) Network Security
6 1 (7.69%) SAN
6 1 (7.69%) VLAN
6 1 (7.69%) Wireless
6 1 (7.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) 802.1X
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Clustering
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 6 (46.15%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) VMS
5 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (7.69%) SUSE
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Software Deployment
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) High Availability
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Server Management
4 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
4 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
5 1 (7.69%) MCSE
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (53.85%) vSphere
3 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (23.08%) BitLocker
4 3 (23.08%) Docker
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (23.08%) Terminal Services
5 2 (15.38%) Firmware
5 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (7.69%) UAG
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) vCenter Server
2 7 (53.85%) Ansible
3 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) Puppet
5 3 (23.08%) Nagios
5 3 (23.08%) vMotion
6 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
6 2 (15.38%) Nessus
6 2 (15.38%) PowerCLI
6 2 (15.38%) SCCM
7 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Citrix
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) HP
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Symantec
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Dell
4 2 (15.38%) EMC
4 2 (15.38%) Tenable
4 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
5 1 (7.69%) NetApp
5 1 (7.69%) Pure Storage