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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 60 89
Rank change year-on-year -27 +29 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 12 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.74% 1.52% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 6.45% 7.24% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £550 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £501
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +19.76% -21.41%
75th Percentile £678 £650 £519
90th Percentile £688 - £615
South East median daily rate £583 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +1.30% -4.96% +18.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £77.63 -
25th Percentile - £77.81 £20.50
Median hourly rate - £81.25 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +286.90% -60.75%
75th Percentile - £85.31 £21.50
90th Percentile - £85.88 -
South East median hourly rate - £81.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +286.90% -61.47%

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 186 152 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.40% 20.94% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 119 123
10th Percentile £415 £393 £211
25th Percentile £500 £487 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £689 £625 £638
90th Percentile £747 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 24
10th Percentile - £45.00 £17.69
25th Percentile £44.86 £53.22 £43.42
Median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% +6.38% +46.88%
75th Percentile £52.58 £73.13 £64.06
90th Percentile - £82.50 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.63 £54.88
% change year-on-year -13.23% +5.01% +5.53%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -9 5 £650 - 2
Eastleigh - 4 £550 -
Basingstoke -26 2 £675 +12.50%
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 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) NAS
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
1 4 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (16.67%) VSAN
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
General
1 5 (41.67%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Architect
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Runbook
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) High Availability
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Benchmarking
5 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 1 (8.33%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
6 1 (8.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (58.33%) vSphere
3 3 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 2 (16.67%) NFS
4 2 (16.67%) UAG
4 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (16.67%) PowerCLI
2 2 (16.67%) vRealize
2 2 (16.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Zerto
3 3 (25.00%) Rackspace
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Veeam
5 1 (8.33%) Becrypt
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) NetApp
5 1 (8.33%) Red Hat