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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 77 72
Rank change year-on-year +27 -5 +43
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 29 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.01% 0.95% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 18.35% 4.98% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 11
10th Percentile £545 £493 £463
25th Percentile £563 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £650 £627 £656
90th Percentile - £638 £750
South East median daily rate £600 £470 £510
% change year-on-year +27.66% -7.84% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South East median hourly rate £83.32 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.50%

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 158 261 269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.41% 19.04% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 155 112
10th Percentile £262 £360 £263
25th Percentile £500 £469 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £650 £684 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 39
10th Percentile - £21.79 £15.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £44.86 £20.62
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.63 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% +10.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £70.63
90th Percentile - - £77.60
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £54.88 £54.78
% change year-on-year +47.61% +0.17% +43.65%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +29 24 £625 +31.58% 4
Portsmouth - 3 £525 -
Southampton - 1 £550 -
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 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) AWS
1 8 (27.59%) GCP
1 8 (27.59%) IaaS
1 8 (27.59%) OpenShift
1 8 (27.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) Fibre Channel
1 16 (55.17%) iSCSI
2 9 (31.03%) DHCP
2 9 (31.03%) DNS
3 8 (27.59%) Firewall
3 8 (27.59%) SMTP
3 8 (27.59%) VPN
4 5 (17.24%) VSAN
5 2 (6.90%) PCoIP
6 1 (3.45%) NAS
6 1 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (27.59%) Big Data
1 8 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (62.07%) Architect
2 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure Architect
2 16 (55.17%) VMware Architect
3 8 (27.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (27.59%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Support Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Build Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Data Centre
2 8 (27.59%) Clustering
2 8 (27.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (86.21%) Windows
1 25 (86.21%) Windows Server
2 16 (55.17%) Windows Server 2019
3 10 (34.48%) Linux
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Edge Virtualization
1 10 (34.48%) Performance Analysis
2 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
2 8 (27.59%) Software Deployment
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
5 4 (13.79%) Operational Stability
6 2 (6.90%) Coaching
6 2 (6.90%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (6.90%) Prototyping
7 1 (3.45%) Converged Infrastructure
7 1 (3.45%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.45%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (3.45%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 24 (82.76%) DV Cleared
3 16 (55.17%) MCSE
3 16 (55.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (41.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (34.48%) VCP5
5 10 (34.48%) VCP6
6 8 (27.59%) Degree
7 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 25 (86.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (68.97%) vSphere
3 16 (55.17%) NFS
4 10 (34.48%) Active Directory
5 8 (27.59%) BitLocker
5 8 (27.59%) Docker
5 8 (27.59%) Hyper-V
5 8 (27.59%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (27.59%) Terminal Services
6 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.45%) Firmware
7 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) vCenter Server
2 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (27.59%) Nagios
2 8 (27.59%) Puppet
2 8 (27.59%) vMotion
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
3 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (89.66%) Microsoft
3 17 (58.62%) NetApp
4 16 (55.17%) Splunk
4 16 (55.17%) Veeam
5 8 (27.59%) Citrix
5 8 (27.59%) Google
5 8 (27.59%) HP
5 8 (27.59%) Symantec
6 1 (3.45%) EMC
6 1 (3.45%) Juniper