VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 52 88
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 44 28 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.25% 2.82% 0.68%
As % of the System Software category 16.36% 17.83% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 7
10th Percentile - £550 £504
25th Percentile £519 £563 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £697 £650 £627
90th Percentile £725 - £648
South East median daily rate £570 £600 £506
% change year-on-year -5.00% +18.52% +1.25%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 269 157 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.74% 15.81% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 137 172
10th Percentile £275 £263 £360
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £650 £687
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 24
10th Percentile £16.00 £52.10 £19.06
25th Percentile £30.43 £53.66 £44.86
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.56% -0.33%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.90 - -
South East median hourly rate £53.75 £67.25 £54.88
% change year-on-year -20.07% +22.55% +2.51%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Hampshire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Hampshire over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Hampshire

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. 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
Basingstoke -9 32 £538 -14.00% 3
Farnborough - 7 £650 -
Eastleigh - 2 £575 -
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (4.55%) AWS
1 2 (4.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 23 (52.27%) DNS
2 7 (15.91%) VLAN
3 4 (9.09%) SAN
4 3 (6.82%) NAS
4 3 (6.82%) VSAN
5 2 (4.55%) DHCP
6 1 (2.27%) Firewall
General
1 16 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (2.27%) Advertising
4 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Cloud Engineer
1 20 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Lead
3 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Technical Leader
4 3 (6.82%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Data Centre Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Data Centre Specialist
6 1 (2.27%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (2.27%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.55%) PKI
3 2 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (86.36%) Windows
2 31 (70.45%) Windows Server
3 6 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (9.09%) Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) Technical Leadership
2 26 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (45.45%) ITSM
4 16 (36.36%) Software Distribution
5 14 (31.82%) Change Management
6 13 (29.55%) Service Management
7 10 (22.73%) Agile
8 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (15.91%) Network Virtualisation
9 7 (15.91%) Service Delivery
10 6 (13.64%) Capacity Management
10 6 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (13.64%) ITIL
10 6 (13.64%) Problem Management
10 6 (13.64%) Task Automation
11 4 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
11 4 (9.09%) Security Hardening
12 3 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (6.82%) Operational Stability
12 3 (6.82%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 39 (88.64%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) NCSC
2 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (65.91%) Active Directory
2 28 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (56.82%) VMware NSX
4 22 (50.00%) vCloud
5 7 (15.91%) vSphere
6 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
7 2 (4.55%) UAG
7 2 (4.55%) VMware Server
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (90.91%) vCenter Server
2 28 (63.64%) SCOM
3 3 (6.82%) PowerCLI
4 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
5 1 (2.27%) Avamar
Vendors
1 44 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (15.91%) Broadcom
3 6 (13.64%) SolarWinds
4 5 (11.36%) Zerto
5 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.82%) Veeam
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) Becrypt
7 1 (2.27%) NetApp
7 1 (2.27%) Rackspace