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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 59 95
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 16 14 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.94% 1.85% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 7.92% 9.09% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 6
10th Percentile £519 - £481
25th Percentile £550 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £507
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +13.47% -18.92%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £519
90th Percentile £725 - £599
South East median daily rate £583 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +1.30% -4.96% +27.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £82.50 -

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 202 154 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.84% 20.32% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 126 126
10th Percentile £435 £288 £204
25th Percentile £500 £468 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +0.09% -
75th Percentile £688 £625 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £661
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 24
10th Percentile £44.86 £39.99 £17.69
25th Percentile £45.21 £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £49.36 £57.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% -6.12% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58.15 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £74.25 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £53.19
% change year-on-year -8.70% +8.11% -2.52%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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
Farnborough -4 6 £650 - 1
Basingstoke -24 5 £606 +3.19% 3
Eastleigh - 4 £550 -
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 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) NAS
2 4 (25.00%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
3 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 2 (12.50%) VSAN
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall
General
1 5 (31.25%) Legal
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Advertising
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Architect
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Data Centre
2 4 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Runbook
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (18.75%) High Availability
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Security Hardening
6 2 (12.50%) Benchmarking
6 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) ITSM
6 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (12.50%) SIEM
7 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
7 1 (6.25%) Load Balancing
7 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) NIST 800
3 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (43.75%) VMware NSX
2 7 (43.75%) vSphere
3 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (18.75%) UAG
4 3 (18.75%) vCloud
5 2 (12.50%) NFS
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) vCenter Server
2 3 (18.75%) SCOM
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (12.50%) PowerCLI
3 2 (12.50%) vRealize
3 2 (12.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Zerto
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
3 3 (18.75%) Rackspace
4 2 (12.50%) Becrypt
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Veeam
5 1 (6.25%) NetApp
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat