VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 5 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.59% 0.23% 2.03%
As % of the System Software category 6.67% 1.11% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £325 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.44%
75th Percentile £558 - £606
90th Percentile - - £656
South West median daily rate £600 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +11.63% -6.52% +4.55%

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 75 90 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 23.81% 20.50% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 55 58
10th Percentile £225 £460 £439
25th Percentile £343 £509 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £734 £725
South West median daily rate £519 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.49% +2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £19.03
25th Percentile - - £51.69
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +84.01%
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £80.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year -16.88% +27.49% +29.43%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

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 3 October 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
Cheltenham - 3 £555 - 2
Gloucester -8 2 £325 -
VMware ESXi
South West

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (40.00%) NetApp OnCommand
3 2 (40.00%) vMotion
3 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft