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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 86 81
Rank change year-on-year +31 -5 +29
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 14 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.88% 0.56% 1.28%
As % of the System Software category 8.92% 3.27% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 11
10th Percentile - £478 £468
25th Percentile £563 £500 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £501 £625
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -19.84% +42.05%
75th Percentile £650 £519 £706
90th Percentile - £615 £738
South East median daily rate £575 £605 £475
% change year-on-year -4.96% +27.37% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £52.15
25th Percentile £78.75 £20.50 £52.38
Median hourly rate £82.50 £21.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +292.86% -60.75% -33.13%
75th Percentile £86.25 £21.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.45
South East median hourly rate £82.50 £21.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year +292.86% -61.47% -31.88%

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 157 275 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.05% 17.08% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 122 155
10th Percentile £288 £201 £294
25th Percentile £468 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 29
10th Percentile £39.99 £17.69 £17.57
25th Percentile £51.06 £43.42 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +9.40% +144.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

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
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 1 May 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 +38 13 £600 +26.32% 9
Farnborough +1 1 - - 2
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 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) PaaS
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) GCP
2 8 (57.14%) IaaS
2 8 (57.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) DHCP
1 8 (57.14%) DNS
1 8 (57.14%) Firewall
1 8 (57.14%) SMTP
1 8 (57.14%) VPN
2 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
3 4 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (57.14%) Big Data
1 8 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
General
1 8 (57.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (57.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) Support Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Architect
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (35.71%) VMware Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Clustering
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
1 8 (57.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
1 12 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 8 (57.14%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
1 8 (57.14%) Machine Learning
1 8 (57.14%) Software Deployment
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Edge Virtualization
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Benchmarking
4 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) DV Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) Degree
4 4 (28.57%) MCSE
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (28.57%) VCP5
4 4 (28.57%) VCP6
4 4 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (57.14%) BitLocker
2 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 8 (57.14%) Hyper-V
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (57.14%) Terminal Services
3 5 (35.71%) NFS
4 4 (28.57%) vSphere
5 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 8 (57.14%) Nagios
1 8 (57.14%) Puppet
1 8 (57.14%) vCenter Server
1 8 (57.14%) vMotion
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (57.14%) Citrix
3 8 (57.14%) Google
3 8 (57.14%) HP
3 8 (57.14%) Symantec
4 4 (28.57%) NetApp
4 4 (28.57%) Splunk
4 4 (28.57%) Veeam