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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 419 406
Rank change year-on-year +74 -13 +82
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 122 123 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.34% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 4.03% 3.09% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 99 178
10th Percentile £350 £324 £400
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +0.29% +16.33%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £625 £691
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £65.18 £40.50
25th Percentile £78.75 £67.31 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £72.75 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +39.55% +11.41%
75th Percentile £86.25 £76.31 £76.50
90th Percentile - £77.33 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £72.75 £61.32
% change year-on-year +13.40% +18.65% +16.67%

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 3,030 3,976 6,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.63% 10.94% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,077 2,785 4,465
10th Percentile £213 £200 £201
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.20% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 207 219
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.49
Median hourly rate £28.21 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.31% -58.00% +167.74%
75th Percentile £64.00 £58.69 £65.38
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.20 £76.09
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +24.44% -58.33% +184.21%

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 22 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 22 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 +55 40 £575 -4.96% 69
London +60 34 £450 -14.29% 33
North of England +24 21 £350 +3.32% 25
South West +12 21 £550 +7.32% 36
North West +17 14 £350 -15.15% 14
Yorkshire +11 7 £488 +44.44% 9
Midlands +2 4 £550 +37.50% 29
West Midlands +1 3 £550 +37.50% 14
East of England +24 1 £600 +9.09% 15
East Midlands - 1 - - 13
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 18 (14.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (13.93%) Confluence
3 7 (5.74%) IIS
3 7 (5.74%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.49%) AWS
1 25 (20.49%) Azure
2 15 (12.30%) PaaS
3 14 (11.48%) GCP
4 12 (9.84%) GitHub
5 11 (9.02%) IaaS
5 11 (9.02%) Nutanix
6 10 (8.20%) Entra ID
7 9 (7.38%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.28%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.64%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.64%) SaaS
11 2 (1.64%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (31.97%) DNS
2 28 (22.95%) DHCP
3 21 (17.21%) Firewall
4 14 (11.48%) TCP/IP
5 13 (10.66%) VSAN
6 11 (9.02%) VPN
7 10 (8.20%) iSCSI
7 10 (8.20%) SAN
7 10 (8.20%) SMTP
8 7 (5.74%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (4.10%) NAS
9 5 (4.10%) VLAN
10 4 (3.28%) Kerberos
11 2 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (1.64%) Network Security
11 2 (1.64%) Skype
11 2 (1.64%) VoIP
12 1 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.82%) NGFW
12 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.38%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (7.38%) Big Data
1 9 (7.38%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.64%) MySQL
3 2 (1.64%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 20 (16.39%) JIRA
2 12 (9.84%) Git
3 11 (9.02%) Subversion
4 10 (8.20%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.82%) Serena SBM
General
1 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 27 (22.13%) Public Sector
3 14 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.66%) Finance
5 6 (4.92%) Banking
6 4 (3.28%) Legal
7 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.82%) Electronics
8 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.82%) Marketing
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (15.57%) Administrator
3 18 (14.75%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 14 (11.48%) VMware Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Linux Administrator
7 9 (7.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (7.38%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (7.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (7.38%) Support Engineer
7 9 (7.38%) VMWare Administrator
8 8 (6.56%) Architect
8 8 (6.56%) Wintel Administrator
9 7 (5.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (5.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Infrastructure Architect
10 6 (4.92%) VMware Architect
11 5 (4.10%) Project Manager
11 5 (4.10%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.48%) Flash
2 8 (6.56%) REST
3 5 (4.10%) LDAP
4 1 (0.82%) .NET
4 1 (0.82%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.82%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 40 (32.79%) Clustering
2 19 (15.57%) Data Centre
3 15 (12.30%) PKI
4 11 (9.02%) Onboarding
5 9 (7.38%) Replication
6 4 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 67 (54.92%) Windows
2 55 (45.08%) Windows Server
3 45 (36.89%) Linux
4 19 (15.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (13.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (13.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (9.84%) Solaris
7 12 (9.84%) Windows 10
8 8 (6.56%) Unix
9 6 (4.92%) VMS
9 6 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.64%) CentOS
12 1 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (44.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (34.43%) High Availability
3 21 (17.21%) Network Virtualisation
4 19 (15.57%) Agile
5 18 (14.75%) DevOps
5 18 (14.75%) Validation
6 16 (13.11%) Waterfall
7 15 (12.30%) Service Management
8 14 (11.48%) ITIL
8 14 (11.48%) NsoIT
8 14 (11.48%) Power Management
8 14 (11.48%) System Testing
9 13 (10.66%) Critical Thinking
9 13 (10.66%) Migration
9 13 (10.66%) Patch Management
9 13 (10.66%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (9.84%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.84%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (9.02%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.95%) PowerShell
2 18 (14.75%) Python
3 16 (13.11%) Bash
4 11 (9.02%) Perl
5 8 (6.56%) SQL
6 2 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (0.82%) C-shell
7 1 (0.82%) Java
7 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.82%) Ruby
7 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (54.92%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.69%) DV Cleared
3 33 (27.05%) SC Cleared
4 24 (19.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (17.21%) Degree
6 13 (10.66%) CCNA
6 13 (10.66%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (9.84%) Master's Degree
7 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (9.02%) MCSE
9 5 (4.10%) VCP5
9 5 (4.10%) VCP6
10 3 (2.46%) CCNP
11 2 (1.64%) MCSA
12 1 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.82%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) GDPR
2 8 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (6.56%) SLA
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.64%) QA
4 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.82%) NCSC
4 1 (0.82%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (72.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 57 (46.72%) Active Directory
3 31 (25.41%) VMware NSX
4 30 (24.59%) vSphere
5 20 (16.39%) Hyper-V
6 18 (14.75%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (9.02%) NFS
8 10 (8.20%) BitLocker
8 10 (8.20%) Docker
8 10 (8.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (8.20%) Terminal Services
9 4 (3.28%) Veritas File System
9 4 (3.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (2.46%) Firmware
10 3 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.64%) KVM
12 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (48.36%) vCenter Server
2 30 (24.59%) Ansible
3 17 (13.93%) vMotion
4 12 (9.84%) Nagios
5 11 (9.02%) Kubernetes
5 11 (9.02%) Puppet
5 11 (9.02%) WSUS
6 10 (8.20%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (7.38%) QRadar
8 8 (6.56%) Tivoli
9 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (4.92%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (4.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (4.10%) NetApp OnCommand
12 4 (3.28%) SCCM
13 3 (2.46%) Control-M
13 3 (2.46%) Netcool
13 3 (2.46%) SCOM
13 3 (2.46%) Terraform
13 3 (2.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 118 (96.72%) VMware
2 45 (36.89%) Microsoft
3 23 (18.85%) Cisco
4 21 (17.21%) Citrix
5 17 (13.93%) Dell
6 16 (13.11%) Splunk
7 15 (12.30%) Red Hat
8 14 (11.48%) HP
9 13 (10.66%) Atlassian
10 12 (9.84%) Symantec
11 11 (9.02%) IBM
12 10 (8.20%) CyberArk
12 10 (8.20%) Qualys
12 10 (8.20%) Wyse
13 9 (7.38%) Google
14 8 (6.56%) SaltStack
14 8 (6.56%) ServiceNow
14 8 (6.56%) Veeam
15 7 (5.74%) EMC
16 5 (4.10%) NetApp