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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 125 160
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 5 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.046% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.69% 0.42% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £528 - £450
25th Percentile £552 - £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £455 £541
Median % change year-on-year +31.32% -15.94% -1.59%
75th Percentile £637 - £697
90th Percentile £657 - £738
Central London median daily rate £598 £455 £541
% change year-on-year +31.32% -15.94% -1.59%

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 186 236 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.59% 10.74% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 174 294
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £405 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £725
90th Percentile £701 £743 £788
Central London median daily rate £531 £475 £561
% change year-on-year +11.68% -15.37% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £57.13 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £98.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% - -
75th Percentile £146.13 - -
90th Percentile £170.95 £46.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%

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 2 May 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 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (40.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Serena SBM
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Messaging Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (40.00%) BYOD
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Database Security
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Kernel Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
4 1 (20.00%) NFS
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas File System
4 1 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Control-M
1 2 (40.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) QRadar
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (20.00%) Netcool
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Serena
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Sybase