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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 341 354
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +128
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 30 43 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 2.03% 2.46% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 53
10th Percentile £363 £300 £350
25th Percentile £395 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -
75th Percentile £528 £538 £650
90th Percentile £581 £600 £653
England median daily rate £575 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +11.65% -5.50% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.32 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +60.56%

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 1,476 1,747 2,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.98% 10.73% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 1,208 1,839
10th Percentile £300 £262 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £713 £730 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 31
10th Percentile £22.45 £20.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.98 £40.41
Median hourly rate £25.58 £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -60.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.39 £68.80
90th Percentile £41.13 £60.00 £83.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £47.90
% change year-on-year +53.06% -48.85% +117.70%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi 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 18 September 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 18 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
Central London 0 2 - - 3
South London - 2 - -
West London - 2 - - 2
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.33%) GitHub
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.00%) Nutanix
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) IaaS
5 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) DNS
1 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (16.67%) VSAN
3 4 (13.33%) Firewall
4 3 (10.00%) DHCP
4 3 (10.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.67%) Skype
5 2 (6.67%) SMTP
5 2 (6.67%) SSL
5 2 (6.67%) VoIP
5 2 (6.67%) VPN
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.33%) DKIM
6 1 (3.33%) DMARC
6 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.33%) NAS
6 1 (3.33%) PSTN
6 1 (3.33%) SAN
6 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) Big Data
2 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
1 6 (20.00%) Subversion
2 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.67%) Mercurial
4 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (20.00%) Finance
1 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.67%) Electronics
3 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Marketing
3 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Senior
6 1 (3.33%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Clustering
2 4 (13.33%) PKI
2 4 (13.33%) Replication
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Blog
4 2 (6.67%) e-Learning
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Linux
2 13 (43.33%) Windows
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (13.33%) Solaris
5 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.67%) VMS
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) High Availability
3 6 (20.00%) ITIL
4 5 (16.67%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (16.67%) ITSM
5 4 (13.33%) API Integration
5 4 (13.33%) Data Security
5 4 (13.33%) Identity Management
5 4 (13.33%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.33%) RBAC
5 4 (13.33%) Resource Allocation
5 4 (13.33%) Security Hardening
6 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (10.00%) Service Management
6 3 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.33%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) Perl
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) Go
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CCNA
3 2 (6.67%) CCNP
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
1 4 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (23.33%) vSphere
4 4 (13.33%) NFS
4 4 (13.33%) Veritas File System
4 4 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (10.00%) KVM
5 3 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (6.67%) BitLocker
6 2 (6.67%) Firmware
6 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (6.67%) Terminal Services
7 1 (3.33%) Docker
7 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) vCenter Server
2 9 (30.00%) Ansible
3 4 (13.33%) QRadar
3 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (13.33%) vMotion
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (10.00%) Puppet
4 3 (10.00%) Terraform
5 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.67%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (6.67%) PowerCLI
5 2 (6.67%) SCCM
5 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (3.33%) Nagios
6 1 (3.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (30.00%) Cisco
4 7 (23.33%) Citrix
5 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
6 4 (13.33%) CyberArk
6 4 (13.33%) Qualys
6 4 (13.33%) SaltStack
6 4 (13.33%) Splunk
7 2 (6.67%) Canon
7 2 (6.67%) McAfee
7 2 (6.67%) SAP
8 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.33%) F5
8 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.33%) Google
8 1 (3.33%) HP
8 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.33%) Symantec