VMware ESXi Contracts in the East of England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 110 114
Rank change year-on-year +29 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.11% 0.10% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 0.69% 1.23% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £393
25th Percentile £575 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -24.14% +52.63%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £738
90th Percentile - - £758
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 145 163 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.54% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 244
10th Percentile £178 £175 £165
25th Percentile £243 £225 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £570 £556 £587
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 41
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%
75th Percentile £65.63 £18.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £81.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the East of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the East of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the East of England

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £600 -
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Redfish
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Sun