VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.78% - -
As % of the System Software category 9.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +5.77%

All System Software Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 94 68 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.15% 9.42% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 32 75
10th Percentile £244 £221 £196
25th Percentile £375 £385 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £465 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +6.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £525
90th Percentile £640 £580 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £484 £425
% change year-on-year -7.02% +13.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £23.75 £22.23
% change year-on-year -33.43% +6.83% -60.48%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Glasgow

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (55.56%) Integration Engineer
3 5 (55.56%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (55.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) NVMe
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Validation
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (55.56%) Open Source
4 5 (55.56%) Release Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Secure Coding
4 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (44.44%) Manual Testing
5 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
6 3 (33.33%) Migration
7 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (22.22%) Server Building
7 2 (22.22%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Perl
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (11.11%) Firmware
4 1 (11.11%) KVM
4 1 (11.11%) UAG
4 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
3 1 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) SaltStack
3 2 (22.22%) Acronis
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Intel
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys