VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 5.52% - -
As % of the System Software category 32.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - -
75th Percentile £462 - -
90th Percentile £477 - -
North West median daily rate £458 £350 -
% change year-on-year +30.86% - -

All System Software Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 28 30 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 17.18% 15.31% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 16
10th Percentile £409 £200 £463
25th Percentile £456 £338 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% +1.94% +20.89%
75th Percentile £601 £538 £666
90th Percentile £630 - £670
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Cumbria

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 8 £460 - 2
VMware ESXi
North West

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Clustering
1 9 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (100.00%) High Availability
1 9 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) MCSA
2 8 (88.89%) MCSE
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) VCAP
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (88.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft