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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 334 345
Rank change year-on-year -54 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 54 30 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 2.98% 2.04% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 21
10th Percentile £380 £363 £300
25th Percentile £441 £395 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £636 £528 £538
90th Percentile £638 £581 £600
England median daily rate £538 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -6.52% +11.65% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £112.00
England median hourly rate £58.74 £83.32 £112.00
% change year-on-year -29.50% -25.61% +43.59%

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 1,811 1,470 1,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.95% 11.07% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 912 1,191
10th Percentile £257 £300 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 31 17
10th Percentile £16.45 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% +4.01% -59.70%
75th Percentile £54.88 £35.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.60 £40.00 £100.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -42.31%

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 22 September 2026.

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 22 September 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
Central London -8 14 £563 - 2
East London - 1 £550 -
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 (9.26%) nginx
1 5 (9.26%) Tomcat
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.56%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.70%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.85%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (14.81%) AWS
3 4 (7.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 4 (7.41%) Azure Stack
3 4 (7.41%) GCP
3 4 (7.41%) IaaS
3 4 (7.41%) PaaS
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (5.56%) Nutanix
4 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) DNS
1 13 (24.07%) Firewall
2 9 (16.67%) VPN
2 9 (16.67%) VSAN
3 7 (12.96%) DHCP
3 7 (12.96%) Network Security
4 4 (7.41%) HTTP
4 4 (7.41%) SMTP
4 4 (7.41%) VLAN
5 3 (5.56%) LAN
5 3 (5.56%) SAN
5 3 (5.56%) WAN
6 2 (3.70%) DMZ
6 2 (3.70%) NAS
6 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.70%) Wireless
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.85%) DSL
7 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.56%) Big Data
3 2 (3.70%) GIS
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) Subversion
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.41%) Finance
2 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.85%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 15 (27.78%) VMware Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Senior
3 7 (12.96%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Migration Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Engineering Specialist
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) Terraform
2 3 (5.56%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.56%) REST
3 2 (3.70%) EJB
3 2 (3.70%) Java SE
3 2 (3.70%) JSON
3 2 (3.70%) JSP
4 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.85%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.85%) JavaBeans
4 1 (1.85%) Middleware
4 1 (1.85%) OpenLayers
4 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Clustering
2 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.26%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (7.41%) PKI
3 4 (7.41%) Replication
4 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 40 (74.07%) Windows
2 32 (59.26%) Windows Server
3 22 (40.74%) Linux
4 9 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (12.96%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (9.26%) Solaris
7 5 (9.26%) VMS
7 5 (9.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (7.41%) SUSE
9 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (1.85%) Unix
10 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
10 1 (1.85%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (20.37%) High Availability
5 9 (16.67%) DevOps
5 9 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (14.81%) Migration
6 8 (14.81%) Service Delivery
7 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.96%) Server Management
7 7 (12.96%) Storage Management
7 7 (12.96%) Validation
8 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.26%) Converged Infrastructure
9 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.26%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (9.26%) Service Management
10 4 (7.41%) Change Management
10 4 (7.41%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) PowerShell
2 9 (16.67%) Python
3 7 (12.96%) Java
4 5 (9.26%) Bash
5 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.56%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Bicep
7 1 (1.85%) Korn
7 1 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Degree
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.85%) CCNA
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.85%) CISSP
7 1 (1.85%) MCSE
7 1 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (90.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (50.00%) vSphere
3 19 (35.19%) Active Directory
4 11 (20.37%) VMware NSX
5 8 (14.81%) Docker
5 8 (14.81%) Hyper-V
6 7 (12.96%) Firmware
6 7 (12.96%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (9.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (7.41%) BitLocker
8 4 (7.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (7.41%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (5.56%) Terminal Services
9 3 (5.56%) UAG
10 1 (1.85%) Ceph
10 1 (1.85%) NFS
10 1 (1.85%) Samba
10 1 (1.85%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 33 (61.11%) vCenter Server
2 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (20.37%) Ansible
4 7 (12.96%) Puppet
5 4 (7.41%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (7.41%) Nagios
5 4 (7.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (7.41%) vMotion
5 4 (7.41%) VxRail
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.70%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.70%) Nessus
7 2 (3.70%) SCCM
7 2 (3.70%) vRealize
8 1 (1.85%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.85%) Kibana
8 1 (1.85%) logstash
8 1 (1.85%) OpenNMS
8 1 (1.85%) SCOM
8 1 (1.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.96%) Dell
4 6 (11.11%) Citrix
4 6 (11.11%) EMC
4 6 (11.11%) Oracle
5 5 (9.26%) IBM
6 4 (7.41%) NetApp
6 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.41%) Tenable
7 3 (5.56%) Cisco
7 3 (5.56%) Google
7 3 (5.56%) HP
7 3 (5.56%) Symantec
8 2 (3.70%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.85%) ForeScout
9 1 (1.85%) Meraki
9 1 (1.85%) Pure Storage
9 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.85%) Splunk