VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 89 107
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 7 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.50% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 3.70% 6.62% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile - £429 £450
25th Percentile £443 £513 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -6.52% +21.05%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £631
90th Percentile £661 £650 £688
England median daily rate £553 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +10.50% -6.98% +2.38%

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 189 136 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.63% 9.42% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 61 196
10th Percentile £200 £185 £170
25th Percentile £230 £220 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £340 £500
Median % change year-on-year +39.71% -32.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £675
90th Percentile £614 £600 £775
England median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 14 36
10th Percentile £14.79 - £14.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £20.38
Median hourly rate £58.75 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -19.23% +348.28%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.75 £77.34
90th Percentile £91.50 £77.98 £84.36
England median hourly rate £34.00 £31.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +9.68% -34.74% +111.11%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the East of England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the East of England

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware ESXi

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 16 October 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
Suffolk +8 4 £623 +18.57%
Cambridgeshire 0 2 £445 - 2
Hertfordshire -6 1 £475 -13.64%
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Network Management
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Security Hardening
1 2 (28.57%) Server Management
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Korn
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Intel
3 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) IBM