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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 337 372
Rank change year-on-year -56 +35 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 42 32 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 2.36% 2.17% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 19
10th Percentile £369 £363 £320
25th Percentile £431 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -17.73%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £531
90th Percentile £644 £573 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -0.73%

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 1,783 1,478 1,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.02% 10.86% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 970 1,345
10th Percentile £250 £270 £256
25th Percentile £415 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% -10.67%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £706 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 29 33
10th Percentile £22.25 £22.40 £17.78
25th Percentile £27.00 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% +9.24% -60.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £58.78 £49.25 £56.05
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.23
% change year-on-year +59.42% +55.23% -50.47%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +2 13 £500 -4.76% 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 6 (14.29%) nginx
1 6 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (7.14%) OpenStack
3 3 (7.14%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 9 (21.43%) AWS
3 7 (16.67%) IaaS
3 7 (16.67%) PaaS
4 5 (11.90%) GCP
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Stack
6 3 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.38%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) Firewall
2 14 (33.33%) DNS
3 13 (30.95%) VPN
4 11 (26.19%) DHCP
5 8 (19.05%) SMTP
5 8 (19.05%) VSAN
6 6 (14.29%) Network Security
7 5 (11.90%) HTTP
7 5 (11.90%) VLAN
8 3 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (4.76%) BGP
9 2 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (4.76%) DMZ
9 2 (4.76%) NAS
9 2 (4.76%) OSPF
9 2 (4.76%) SAN
9 2 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (4.76%) Wireless
10 1 (2.38%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
1 2 (4.76%) Subversion
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) NetApp Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.76%) Middleware
1 2 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (2.38%) EJB
2 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.38%) Java SE
2 1 (2.38%) JavaBeans
2 1 (2.38%) JSON
2 1 (2.38%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Clustering
2 8 (19.05%) PKI
3 6 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 4 (9.52%) Replication
5 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 33 (78.57%) Windows
2 23 (54.76%) Linux
2 23 (54.76%) Windows Server
3 10 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (14.29%) Solaris
4 6 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (9.52%) SUSE
6 4 (9.52%) VMS
6 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (23.81%) DevOps
3 9 (21.43%) High Availability
3 9 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 7 (16.67%) Migration
6 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.90%) Server Management
7 5 (11.90%) Validation
8 4 (9.52%) ETL
8 4 (9.52%) Incident Management
8 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (9.52%) Master Data Management
8 4 (9.52%) Refactoring
8 4 (9.52%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (9.52%) Test Automation
9 3 (7.14%) Architectural Design
9 3 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (7.14%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 6 (14.29%) Java
2 6 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) Bash
3 4 (9.52%) PL/SQL
3 4 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.19%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.90%) Degree
5 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.38%) CCNA
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.38%) MCSE
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.38%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 37 (88.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (45.24%) Active Directory
3 16 (38.10%) vSphere
4 13 (30.95%) Hyper-V
5 12 (28.57%) Docker
6 10 (23.81%) VMware NSX
7 8 (19.05%) BitLocker
7 8 (19.05%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (11.90%) Firmware
8 5 (11.90%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (11.90%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (9.52%) Terminal Services
10 3 (7.14%) UAG
10 3 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (2.38%) Ceph
11 1 (2.38%) NFS
11 1 (2.38%) Samba
Systems Management
1 29 (69.05%) vCenter Server
2 14 (33.33%) Ansible
2 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (23.81%) Puppet
4 8 (19.05%) vMotion
5 6 (14.29%) Terraform
6 5 (11.90%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (9.52%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (9.52%) Nagios
7 4 (9.52%) VxRail
8 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (4.76%) FortiGate
9 2 (4.76%) Nessus
9 2 (4.76%) PowerCLI
9 2 (4.76%) SCCM
9 2 (4.76%) vRealize
10 1 (2.38%) Check_MK
10 1 (2.38%) Kibana
10 1 (2.38%) logstash
10 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (97.62%) VMware
2 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 10 (23.81%) Citrix
4 7 (16.67%) Dell
4 7 (16.67%) NetApp
5 6 (14.29%) IBM
5 6 (14.29%) Oracle
5 6 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 5 (11.90%) Google
7 4 (9.52%) Cisco
7 4 (9.52%) HP
7 4 (9.52%) Symantec
7 4 (9.52%) Tenable
8 3 (7.14%) EMC
9 2 (4.76%) Juniper
9 2 (4.76%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.38%) Commvault
10 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.38%) SonicWALL
10 1 (2.38%) WatchGuard