VMware ESXi Contracts in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 40 54 57
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.36% 0.93% 1.27%
As % of the System Software category 1.45% 5.13% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile - £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile - £625 £525
90th Percentile - - £563
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.44%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 69 78 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.18% 18.18% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 112
10th Percentile £227 £210 £275
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £725 £711
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.95
25th Percentile - - £45.88
Median hourly rate - - £66.50
75th Percentile - - £76.13
90th Percentile - - £77.25
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester -3 1 - -
VMware ESXi
South West

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) vMotion
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware