VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Gwent

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South Wales > Gwent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gwent requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gwent 14.29% - -
As % of the System Software category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate - £200 £613
% change year-on-year - -67.35% +75.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All System Software Skills
Gwent

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 Gwent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gwent 14.29% - 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £166
South Wales median daily rate £290 £210 £303
% change year-on-year +38.10% -30.58% -39.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £152.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £154.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £156.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 £13.33
% change year-on-year +60.00% +275.09% +6.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Gwent

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Gwent

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Gwent

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

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

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gwent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware