VMware ESXi Contracts in England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for VMware ESXi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 429 474
Rank change year-on-year +16 +45 -130
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 132 239 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.47% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 3.27% 3.59% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 175 223
10th Percentile £348 £400 £275
25th Percentile £461 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -
75th Percentile £608 £625 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +4.88% +13.89% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £29.15 £43.73 £30.68
25th Percentile £42.13 £52.10 £41.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.82 £46.79
Median % change year-on-year +27.80% +12.88% -8.25%
75th Percentile £74.63 £75.94 £54.02
90th Percentile £76.65 £77.85 £69.17
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £53.50 £52.56
% change year-on-year +26.17% +1.80% +3.05%

All System Software Skills
England

VMware ESXi is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,042 6,662 9,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.87% 13.15% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 4,829 7,174
10th Percentile £190 £204 £196
25th Percentile £320 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £637
90th Percentile £688 £738 £707
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 253 283
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.27
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £57.80 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.40 £56.77
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -

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 26 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware ESXi in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 April 2024. 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 West +25 45 £525 +5.00% 13
South East +10 34 £605 +24.10% 19
North of England +32 20 £340 -19.05% 11
London +39 19 £525 -4.55% 21
Midlands +29 12 £488 +7.04% 8
West Midlands +36 11 £488 -2.50% 6
Yorkshire +28 9 £340 - 7
North West +17 7 - - 2
North East +21 4 £560 +87.45% 2
East of England +6 2 £550 -24.14% 9
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 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (8.33%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.52%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.00%) Azure
2 15 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (10.61%) OCI
4 11 (8.33%) AWS
5 5 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.79%) IaaS
5 5 (3.79%) PaaS
6 4 (3.03%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.27%) GCP
7 3 (2.27%) GitHub
7 3 (2.27%) SaaS
8 2 (1.52%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.52%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.76%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.76%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.76%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 57 (43.18%) DNS
2 50 (37.88%) DHCP
3 42 (31.82%) SAN
4 37 (28.03%) Firewall
5 32 (24.24%) VSAN
6 13 (9.85%) LAN
6 13 (9.85%) TCP/IP
6 13 (9.85%) WAN
7 9 (6.82%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
8 8 (6.06%) SNA
9 7 (5.30%) VPN
10 6 (4.55%) FTP
11 5 (3.79%) NAS
12 4 (3.03%) NetScaler
13 3 (2.27%) Skype
14 2 (1.52%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
14 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
14 2 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.03%) MySQL
2 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) JIRA
2 10 (7.58%) Git
3 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.52%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.76%) Subversion
General
1 51 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.30%) Banking
4 7 (5.30%) Finance
5 5 (3.79%) Legal
6 3 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.52%) Electronics
7 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (35.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
3 16 (12.12%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 8 (6.06%) Data Centre Engineer
5 8 (6.06%) Lead
5 8 (6.06%) Senior
6 7 (5.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) SAN Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Server Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.06%) YAML
2 6 (4.55%) Flash
3 4 (3.03%) REST
4 2 (1.52%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.52%) LDAP
5 1 (0.76%) .NET
5 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.76%) JSON
5 1 (0.76%) OAuth
5 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.76%) OpenID
5 1 (0.76%) SAML
5 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (34.85%) Data Centre
2 25 (18.94%) PKI
3 15 (11.36%) Clustering
4 7 (5.30%) Replication
5 6 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.03%) Fat Client
6 4 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (3.03%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.76%) CMDB
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (59.85%) Windows
2 66 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 64 (48.48%) Linux
4 26 (19.70%) Windows 10
5 24 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (17.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (15.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (9.85%) Windows XP
9 12 (9.09%) Unix
10 10 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (6.82%) Windows 7
12 6 (4.55%) Ubuntu
13 5 (3.79%) Solaris
13 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (1.52%) CentOS
16 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (19.70%) Converged Infrastructure
3 26 (19.70%) ITIL
4 20 (15.15%) Project Management
5 19 (14.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (13.64%) Server Management
7 15 (11.36%) CI/CD
7 15 (11.36%) Storage Management
8 14 (10.61%) Performance Monitoring
8 14 (10.61%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (10.61%) Proactive Monitoring
9 13 (9.85%) Break/Fix
9 13 (9.85%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.09%) Change Management
11 11 (8.33%) High Availability
11 11 (8.33%) Migration
11 11 (8.33%) Validation
12 10 (7.58%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 48 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 19 (14.39%) Python
3 8 (6.06%) Java
4 7 (5.30%) C#
5 6 (4.55%) Bash
6 5 (3.79%) SQL
7 4 (3.03%) C
8 1 (0.76%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 53 (40.15%) DV Cleared
3 39 (29.55%) SC Cleared
4 30 (22.73%) Degree
5 23 (17.42%) CCNA
5 23 (17.42%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (14.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 13 (9.85%) CCNP
8 7 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (4.55%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.03%) A+ Certification
10 4 (3.03%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.52%) MCSE
13 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.76%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) NIST
2 4 (3.03%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 80 (60.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (43.94%) Active Directory
3 55 (41.67%) VMware NSX
4 34 (25.76%) vSphere
5 25 (18.94%) Hyper-V
6 8 (6.06%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (5.30%) KVM
7 7 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (4.55%) Firmware
8 6 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (3.79%) Docker
10 3 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.52%) XenApp
11 2 (1.52%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.76%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.76%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.76%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.76%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 86 (65.15%) vCenter Server
2 34 (25.76%) SCCM
3 30 (22.73%) Ansible
4 24 (18.18%) WSUS
5 18 (13.64%) Terraform
6 17 (12.88%) SCOM
7 16 (12.12%) Kubernetes
8 13 (9.85%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (9.85%) NetBackup
9 12 (9.09%) vRealize
10 9 (6.82%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (6.06%) Nessus
12 5 (3.79%) VxRail
13 4 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (3.03%) Rancher
13 4 (3.03%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 4 (3.03%) ZABBIX
14 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
15 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
15 2 (1.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 125 (94.70%) VMware
2 62 (46.97%) Microsoft
3 37 (28.03%) Cisco
4 33 (25.00%) Veeam
5 27 (20.45%) Dell
6 22 (16.67%) HP
7 20 (15.15%) Palo Alto
8 18 (13.64%) Oracle
9 17 (12.88%) EMC
10 15 (11.36%) Symantec
11 13 (9.85%) 3PAR
11 13 (9.85%) Atlassian
11 13 (9.85%) Extreme Networks
11 13 (9.85%) Juniper
12 11 (8.33%) Red Hat
13 9 (6.82%) Citrix
14 8 (6.06%) IBM
15 6 (4.55%) CheckPoint
15 6 (4.55%) SolarWinds
16 5 (3.79%) Splunk