VMware ESXi Contracts in England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 371 410 425
Rank change year-on-year +39 +15 +66
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 114 132 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 3.69% 3.27% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 100 173
10th Percentile £350 £348 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £632 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £29.15 £43.73
25th Percentile £78.75 £42.13 £52.10
Median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £52.82
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +27.80% +12.88%
75th Percentile £86.25 £74.63 £75.94
90th Percentile - £76.65 £77.85
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +22.22% +26.17% +1.80%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South East +49 37 £575 -4.96% 32
London +49 30 £450 -14.29% 12
South West +23 22 £550 +4.76% 17
North of England +18 19 £375 +10.29% 15
North West +23 13 £350 - 12
Yorkshire +5 6 £488 +43.38% 3
Midlands +12 2 £550 +12.82% 12
East of England +29 1 £600 +9.09% 2
West Midlands +4 1 £550 +12.82% 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (19.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (14.04%) Confluence
3 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 6 (5.26%) IIS
5 4 (3.51%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.18%) AWS
1 23 (20.18%) Azure
2 15 (13.16%) PaaS
3 13 (11.40%) GCP
3 13 (11.40%) Nutanix
4 11 (9.65%) Entra ID
4 11 (9.65%) GitHub
4 11 (9.65%) IaaS
4 11 (9.65%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.89%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.75%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.75%) SaaS
8 2 (1.75%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (34.21%) DNS
2 28 (24.56%) DHCP
3 21 (18.42%) Firewall
4 13 (11.40%) TCP/IP
5 11 (9.65%) iSCSI
5 11 (9.65%) VPN
6 10 (8.77%) SMTP
6 10 (8.77%) VSAN
7 9 (7.89%) SAN
8 5 (4.39%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (3.51%) Kerberos
9 4 (3.51%) NAS
9 4 (3.51%) Skype
9 4 (3.51%) VLAN
10 2 (1.75%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.75%) Network Security
10 2 (1.75%) VoIP
11 1 (0.88%) SNMP
11 1 (0.88%) SSL
11 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (7.89%) Big Data
1 9 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.75%) MySQL
3 2 (1.75%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 20 (17.54%) JIRA
2 12 (10.53%) Git
3 11 (9.65%) Subversion
4 10 (8.77%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) Serena SBM
General
1 29 (25.44%) Public Sector
2 28 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.53%) Finance
5 8 (7.02%) Banking
6 4 (3.51%) Legal
7 2 (1.75%) Electronics
7 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.75%) Marketing
7 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (32.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (15.79%) Administrator
3 16 (14.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Linux Administrator
5 10 (8.77%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support
6 9 (7.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Architect
6 9 (7.89%) Support Engineer
7 8 (7.02%) VMWare Administrator
8 7 (6.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure Architect
8 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (6.14%) VMware Architect
8 7 (6.14%) Wintel Administrator
9 4 (3.51%) Senior
10 3 (2.63%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.28%) Flash
2 8 (7.02%) REST
3 5 (4.39%) LDAP
4 1 (0.88%) .NET
4 1 (0.88%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.88%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.33%) Clustering
2 22 (19.30%) Data Centre
3 17 (14.91%) PKI
4 13 (11.40%) Onboarding
5 9 (7.89%) Replication
6 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.75%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.75%) BYOD
7 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 62 (54.39%) Windows
2 51 (44.74%) Windows Server
3 40 (35.09%) Linux
4 17 (14.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (14.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (13.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (11.40%) Windows 10
8 12 (10.53%) Solaris
9 10 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (7.02%) Unix
11 6 (5.26%) VMS
11 6 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.75%) CentOS
12 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (34.21%) High Availability
3 21 (18.42%) Network Virtualisation
4 18 (15.79%) Agile
4 18 (15.79%) DevOps
5 15 (13.16%) Service Management
5 15 (13.16%) Waterfall
6 14 (12.28%) NsoIT
6 14 (12.28%) Power Management
6 14 (12.28%) System Testing
6 14 (12.28%) Validation
7 13 (11.40%) Migration
8 12 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 12 (10.53%) Computer Science
8 12 (10.53%) Critical Thinking
8 12 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (10.53%) ITIL
8 12 (10.53%) Patch Management
9 11 (9.65%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (9.65%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.44%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.91%) Python
3 16 (14.04%) Bash
4 11 (9.65%) Perl
5 7 (6.14%) SQL
6 2 (1.75%) C#
7 1 (0.88%) C-shell
7 1 (0.88%) Java
7 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.88%) Ruby
7 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 33 (28.95%) DV Cleared
4 23 (20.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 22 (19.30%) Degree
6 13 (11.40%) CCNA
6 13 (11.40%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (10.53%) Master's Degree
8 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (8.77%) MCSE
10 4 (3.51%) VCP5
10 4 (3.51%) VCP6
11 3 (2.63%) CCNP
12 2 (1.75%) MCSA
13 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.88%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) GDPR
2 8 (7.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (6.14%) SLA
4 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.75%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (72.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 57 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 33 (28.95%) VMware NSX
4 23 (20.18%) vSphere
5 19 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 13 (11.40%) NFS
7 12 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (8.77%) BitLocker
8 10 (8.77%) Docker
8 10 (8.77%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (8.77%) Terminal Services
9 4 (3.51%) Veritas File System
9 4 (3.51%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.75%) KVM
11 2 (1.75%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.88%) Firmware
12 1 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (49.12%) vCenter Server
2 28 (24.56%) Ansible
3 14 (12.28%) vMotion
4 12 (10.53%) Nagios
5 11 (9.65%) Kubernetes
5 11 (9.65%) Puppet
6 10 (8.77%) Red Hat Satellite
6 10 (8.77%) WSUS
7 9 (7.89%) QRadar
8 8 (7.02%) Tivoli
9 7 (6.14%) SCCM
10 6 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (5.26%) vRealize
11 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (3.51%) NetApp OnCommand
11 4 (3.51%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (2.63%) Control-M
12 3 (2.63%) Netcool
Vendors
1 110 (96.49%) VMware
2 45 (39.47%) Microsoft
3 20 (17.54%) Cisco
3 20 (17.54%) Citrix
4 15 (13.16%) Dell
4 15 (13.16%) Red Hat
4 15 (13.16%) Splunk
5 13 (11.40%) Atlassian
5 13 (11.40%) HP
6 12 (10.53%) Symantec
7 10 (8.77%) CyberArk
7 10 (8.77%) IBM
7 10 (8.77%) Qualys
8 9 (7.89%) Google
8 9 (7.89%) Wyse
9 8 (7.02%) SaltStack
9 8 (7.02%) ServiceNow
10 7 (6.14%) EMC
10 7 (6.14%) Veeam
11 5 (4.39%) Oracle