VMware ESXi Contracts in Hampshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 94 93
Rank change year-on-year +43 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 22 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.50% 0.62% 0.76%
As % of the System Software category 14.57% 3.01% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 8
10th Percentile - £489 £466
25th Percentile £563 £505 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -7.45% +30.56%
75th Percentile £650 £627 £638
90th Percentile - £643 £698
South East median daily rate £590 £590 £481
% change year-on-year - +22.60% +13.24%

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 151 365 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.16% 20.61% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 191 132
10th Percentile £278 £360 £328
25th Percentile £500 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £661 £675 £687
South East median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 29 32
10th Percentile £52.36 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £54.30 £26.25 £17.52
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £48.13
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +29.87% +123.84%
75th Percentile £59.09 £70.00 £68.13
90th Percentile £59.71 - £75.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +4.78% +7.07% +156.25%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Hampshire

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Hampshire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Hampshire

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in Hampshire

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 5 July 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
Basingstoke +36 20 £625 +31.58% 7
Portsmouth - 1 £475 - 3
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
1 8 (36.36%) GCP
1 8 (36.36%) IaaS
1 8 (36.36%) OpenShift
1 8 (36.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Fibre Channel
1 12 (54.55%) iSCSI
2 9 (40.91%) DHCP
2 9 (40.91%) DNS
3 8 (36.36%) Firewall
3 8 (36.36%) SMTP
3 8 (36.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (36.36%) Big Data
1 8 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Architect
1 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure Architect
1 12 (54.55%) VMware Architect
2 8 (36.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (36.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Support Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Build Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Clustering
1 8 (36.36%) Data Centre
1 8 (36.36%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
1 21 (95.45%) Windows Server
2 12 (54.55%) Windows Server 2019
3 9 (40.91%) Linux
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Edge Virtualization
1 10 (45.45%) Performance Analysis
2 8 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
2 8 (36.36%) Software Deployment
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.09%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
2 20 (90.91%) DV Cleared
3 12 (54.55%) MCSE
3 12 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (45.45%) VCP5
4 10 (45.45%) VCP6
4 10 (45.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (36.36%) Degree
6 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (59.09%) vSphere
3 12 (54.55%) NFS
4 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
5 8 (36.36%) BitLocker
5 8 (36.36%) Docker
5 8 (36.36%) Hyper-V
5 8 (36.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (36.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Ansible
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 8 (36.36%) Nagios
1 8 (36.36%) Puppet
1 8 (36.36%) vCenter Server
1 8 (36.36%) vMotion
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (90.91%) Microsoft
3 13 (59.09%) NetApp
4 12 (54.55%) Splunk
4 12 (54.55%) Veeam
5 8 (36.36%) Citrix
5 8 (36.36%) Google
5 8 (36.36%) HP
5 8 (36.36%) Symantec
6 1 (4.55%) Juniper