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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 327 377
Rank change year-on-year -42 +50 +65
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 26 27 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.16% 0.21% 0.099%
As % of the System Software category 1.51% 1.91% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 16
10th Percentile £413 £350 £413
25th Percentile £487 £363 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £623 £538 £641
90th Percentile £638 £597 £659
England median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
England median hourly rate £50.50 £97.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -48.07% +44.07% +27.80%

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 1,718 1,417 1,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.46% 11.05% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 985 1,273
10th Percentile £309 £263 £210
25th Percentile £425 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £738 £813 £719
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 34
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.26
25th Percentile £21.91 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.31 £28.71 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +28.15% -17.04%
75th Percentile £54.56 £80.19 £38.44
90th Percentile £67.70 £112.00 £57.08
England median hourly rate £42.69 £29.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +47.19% +28.89% -42.68%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -10 2 £493 -17.57% 5
North London - 1 £225 -
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 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) nginx
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) IaaS
1 6 (23.08%) PaaS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) DHCP
1 12 (46.15%) DNS
2 11 (42.31%) Firewall
3 7 (26.92%) SMTP
3 7 (26.92%) VPN
4 5 (19.23%) NAS
4 5 (19.23%) SAN
5 2 (7.69%) BGP
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (7.69%) HTTP
5 2 (7.69%) OSPF
5 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.69%) VSAN
6 1 (3.85%) NetScaler
6 1 (3.85%) VLAN
6 1 (3.85%) VoIP
6 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Police
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) NetApp Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Wintel Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Middleware
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (7.69%) Bootstrap
2 2 (7.69%) Express.js
2 2 (7.69%) React
2 2 (7.69%) SOAP
2 2 (7.69%) WCF
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
2 2 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) PKI
2 8 (30.77%) Clustering
3 6 (23.08%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (19.23%) Replication
5 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.85%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 14 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 8 (30.77%) Linux
4 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (11.54%) VMS
6 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (7.69%) Solaris
6 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 3 (11.54%) High Availability
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
6 2 (7.69%) Agile
6 2 (7.69%) Change Management
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.69%) ETL
6 2 (7.69%) Information Assurance
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) MVC
6 2 (7.69%) MVVM
6 2 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (7.69%) Project Management
6 2 (7.69%) Refactoring
6 2 (7.69%) Scrum
6 2 (7.69%) SOA
6 2 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) C#
2 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 14 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (11.54%) VCAP
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.85%) VCDX
System Software
1 22 (84.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 9 (34.62%) Docker
4 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
5 7 (26.92%) BitLocker
5 7 (26.92%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (26.92%) vSphere
6 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (15.38%) VMware NSX
7 2 (7.69%) Firmware
7 2 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (3.85%) Terminal Services
8 1 (3.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (53.85%) vCenter Server
2 8 (30.77%) Ansible
3 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (26.92%) vMotion
4 6 (23.08%) Puppet
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (7.69%) PowerCLI
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.85%) SCCM
6 1 (3.85%) SCOM
6 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (96.15%) VMware
2 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 10 (38.46%) NetApp
4 8 (30.77%) Citrix
5 4 (15.38%) Dell
6 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
7 2 (7.69%) Cisco
7 2 (7.69%) Google
7 2 (7.69%) HP
7 2 (7.69%) IBM
7 2 (7.69%) Juniper
7 2 (7.69%) Oracle
8 1 (3.85%) Commvault
8 1 (3.85%) Draytek
8 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.85%) SonicWALL
8 1 (3.85%) Symantec
8 1 (3.85%) Veeam
8 1 (3.85%) WatchGuard