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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 89 87
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 10 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.43% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the System Software category 4.17% 3.87% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £535 - £412
25th Percentile £577 £443 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £575 £550
90th Percentile - £661 £565
England median daily rate £538 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -6.52% +11.65% -4.85%

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 240 181 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.33% 13.97% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 89 54
10th Percentile £163 £198 £182
25th Percentile £240 £231 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £348
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +38.85% -22.78%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £500
90th Percentile £600 £603 £593
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 21
10th Percentile £60.93 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £68.44 £15.58 -
Median hourly rate £70.72 £64.75 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +357.27% -79.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £90.21 £91.50 £73.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £36.00 £24.20
% change year-on-year +80.56% +48.76% -47.60%

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
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 12 September 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
Hertfordshire -11 6 £600 +26.32% 1
Cambridgeshire +3 4 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) VSAN
2 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (20.00%) NAS
3 2 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Project Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Backup Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (30.00%) vSphere
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (40.00%) vRealize
2 4 (40.00%) VxRail
3 3 (30.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) NetApp
2 3 (30.00%) Veeam
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Remedy