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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 335 347
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +152
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 23 44 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.28% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 1.49% 2.68% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 43
10th Percentile £331 £278 £400
25th Percentile £391 £386 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% -
75th Percentile £492 £566 £650
90th Percentile £575 £608 £671
England median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +79.20% -
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.32 £112.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% +43.59% +333.33%

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 1,544 1,643 2,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.36% 10.51% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,093 1,699
10th Percentile £300 £263 £220
25th Percentile £419 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 28
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.20 £24.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.59 £29.94
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £49.94
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -52.34% +72.21%
75th Percentile £28.00 £62.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £35.75 £108.10 £75.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.06% +86.53%

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 2 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 2 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 -1 2 - - 1
South London - 2 - -
West London - 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 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Entra ID
3 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (13.04%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) TCP/IP
2 6 (26.09%) DNS
3 4 (17.39%) VSAN
4 2 (8.70%) DHCP
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
4 2 (8.70%) iSCSI
4 2 (8.70%) SSL
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.35%) DKIM
5 1 (4.35%) DMARC
5 1 (4.35%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.35%) NAS
5 1 (4.35%) PSTN
5 1 (4.35%) SAN
5 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
1 6 (26.09%) Subversion
2 4 (17.39%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.70%) Mercurial
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Electronics
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Administrator
1 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Development Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Trainer
5 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
3 1 (4.35%) Express.js
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) pytest
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) WCF
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
3 1 (4.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Clustering
2 4 (17.39%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Blog
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) e-Learning
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 10 (43.48%) Windows
3 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (17.39%) Solaris
5 3 (13.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 6 (26.09%) High Availability
3 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) API Integration
4 4 (17.39%) Data Security
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Kernel Tuning
4 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Security Hardening
5 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) RBAC
5 3 (13.04%) Resource Allocation
5 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Content Development
6 2 (8.70%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Bash
2 4 (17.39%) Perl
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) C++
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) CCNA
3 2 (8.70%) CCNP
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) GDPR
1 4 (17.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (86.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 9 (39.13%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (21.74%) vSphere
4 4 (17.39%) NFS
4 4 (17.39%) Veritas File System
4 4 (17.39%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Firmware
6 1 (4.35%) KVM
6 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) vCenter Server
2 8 (34.78%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) QRadar
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (13.04%) Terraform
5 2 (8.70%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (8.70%) PowerCLI
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
5 2 (8.70%) SCCM
5 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (8.70%) vMotion
6 1 (4.35%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco
4 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
5 4 (17.39%) CyberArk
5 4 (17.39%) Qualys
5 4 (17.39%) SaltStack
5 4 (17.39%) Splunk
6 3 (13.04%) Citrix
7 2 (8.70%) Canon
7 2 (8.70%) McAfee
7 2 (8.70%) SAP
8 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
8 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
8 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
8 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow