VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 344 367
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 +140
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 22 48 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 1.36% 2.93% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 36
10th Percentile £351 £293 £375
25th Percentile £465 £369 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £601
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -25.16% +9.32%
75th Percentile £611 £547 £650
90th Percentile £624 £603 £675
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
England median hourly rate £83.32 £112.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% +43.59% +47.87%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,622 1,637 2,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.53% 10.29% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 1,088 1,656
10th Percentile £307 £263 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -8.26%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.30 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.64 £28.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -52.29% +99.52%
75th Percentile £26.00 £85.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £52.40 £106.90 £75.50
England median hourly rate £32.32 £50.00 £40.16
% change year-on-year -35.37% +24.49% +60.65%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware ESXi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in London over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in London

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
Central London +3 2 £510 -2.86% 1
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) IaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
1 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 4 (18.18%) DHCP
3 3 (13.64%) NAS
3 3 (13.64%) SAN
4 2 (9.09%) Firewall
4 2 (9.09%) SSL
5 1 (4.55%) DKIM
5 1 (4.55%) DMARC
5 1 (4.55%) NetScaler
5 1 (4.55%) PSTN
5 1 (4.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
1 6 (27.27%) Subversion
2 4 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 2 (9.09%) Mercurial
4 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Electronics
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Police
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Administrator
1 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (18.18%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
2 2 (9.09%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Consultant
3 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Senior
3 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (9.09%) Bootstrap
2 2 (9.09%) Express.js
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) React
2 2 (9.09%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) WCF
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
2 2 (9.09%) WPF
3 1 (4.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Replication
2 5 (22.73%) Clustering
3 4 (18.18%) PKI
4 2 (9.09%) Blog
4 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.09%) e-Learning
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Solaris
5 3 (13.64%) VMS
6 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
1 9 (40.91%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (31.82%) High Availability
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) API Integration
4 4 (18.18%) Data Security
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Kernel Tuning
4 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Security Hardening
5 3 (13.64%) ITIL
5 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.64%) User Experience
6 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.09%) Instructional Design
6 2 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
3 4 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (9.09%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
4 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) CCNA
3 2 (9.09%) CCNP
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) GDPR
1 4 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (86.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 7 (31.82%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (27.27%) vSphere
5 4 (18.18%) NFS
5 4 (18.18%) Veritas File System
5 4 (18.18%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Docker
6 1 (4.55%) Firmware
6 1 (4.55%) KVM
6 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.55%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) vCenter Server
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (18.18%) QRadar
3 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (13.64%) SCCM
4 3 (13.64%) Terraform
5 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 2 (9.09%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (9.09%) PowerCLI
5 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (4.55%) SCOM
6 1 (4.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) CyberArk
3 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
4 4 (18.18%) Cisco
4 4 (18.18%) Qualys
4 4 (18.18%) SaltStack
4 4 (18.18%) Splunk
5 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
5 2 (9.09%) Canon
5 2 (9.09%) Citrix
5 2 (9.09%) McAfee
5 2 (9.09%) NetApp
5 2 (9.09%) SAP
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) HP
6 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.55%) Veeam