VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.22% 0.96% 0.93%
As % of the System Software category 1.41% 15.38% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £381 £461
25th Percentile £463 £435 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +60.00%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £634
90th Percentile - £570 £738
East of England median daily rate £513 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +60.00%

All System Software Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 71 39 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.71% 6.27% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 120
10th Percentile £350 £258 £170
25th Percentile £463 £331 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -8.86% +9.72%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £691
90th Percentile £600 £650 £815
East of England median daily rate £500 £348 £450
% change year-on-year +43.88% -22.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 31
10th Percentile - - £17.79
25th Percentile £52.00 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £84.36
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £64.75 £14.16 £70.00
% change year-on-year +357.27% -79.77% +382.76%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Hertfordshire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Watford - 1 £475 - 1
VMware ESXi
East of England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware