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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 321 374
Rank change year-on-year -58 +53 +56
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 33 24 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.19% 0.094%
As % of the System Software category 1.91% 1.69% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 15
10th Percentile £463 £350 £380
25th Percentile £492 £369 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £614 £541 £644
90th Percentile £638 £608 £661
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

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 1,730 1,423 1,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.24% 11.27% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,010 1,271
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £431 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £615
90th Percentile £738 £810 £719
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.43
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.80 £20.38
Median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +19.01% -19.18%
75th Percentile £41.32 £32.75 £35.31
90th Percentile £67.70 £77.23 £55.13
England median hourly rate £50.00 £29.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.41% +31.82% -45.00%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -15 3 £475 -20.50% 6
North London - 1 £225 - 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 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (12.12%) nginx
1 4 (12.12%) Tomcat
2 3 (9.09%) WebLogic
3 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) IaaS
2 7 (21.21%) PaaS
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Stack
4 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.03%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) Firewall
2 13 (39.39%) DHCP
2 13 (39.39%) DNS
3 11 (33.33%) VPN
4 8 (24.24%) SMTP
5 6 (18.18%) VSAN
6 5 (15.15%) NAS
6 5 (15.15%) SAN
6 5 (15.15%) VLAN
7 4 (12.12%) HTTP
8 3 (9.09%) Network Security
9 2 (6.06%) BGP
9 2 (6.06%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (6.06%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (6.06%) OSPF
9 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
10 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
10 1 (3.03%) VoIP
10 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Police
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) NetApp Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Storage Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Middleware
2 2 (6.06%) .NET
2 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (6.06%) Bootstrap
2 2 (6.06%) Express.js
2 2 (6.06%) React
2 2 (6.06%) SOAP
2 2 (6.06%) WCF
2 2 (6.06%) Web Services
2 2 (6.06%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Clustering
2 10 (30.30%) PKI
3 9 (27.27%) Replication
4 7 (21.21%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (12.12%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
8 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
8 1 (3.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) Windows Server
3 14 (42.42%) Linux
4 7 (21.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (21.21%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (18.18%) VMS
6 4 (12.12%) Solaris
6 4 (12.12%) SUSE
6 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) High Availability
2 7 (21.21%) Incident Management
3 6 (18.18%) Migration
3 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.12%) ETL
5 4 (12.12%) Refactoring
5 4 (12.12%) Remediation Plan
5 4 (12.12%) Validation
6 3 (9.09%) Converged Infrastructure
6 3 (9.09%) DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) ITIL
6 3 (9.09%) Master Data Management
6 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) Server Management
7 2 (6.06%) Containerisation
7 2 (6.06%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (6.06%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) C#
3 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 24 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (12.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (9.09%) VCAP
6 1 (3.03%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.03%) VCDX
System Software
1 28 (84.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (39.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (39.39%) Hyper-V
3 12 (36.36%) Docker
4 11 (33.33%) vSphere
5 8 (24.24%) BitLocker
5 8 (24.24%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (24.24%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (15.15%) Firmware
7 4 (12.12%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (3.03%) Terminal Services
8 1 (3.03%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (57.58%) vCenter Server
2 9 (27.27%) Ansible
3 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 8 (24.24%) vMotion
4 7 (21.21%) Puppet
5 4 (12.12%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (12.12%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (12.12%) VxRail
6 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (6.06%) PowerCLI
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (3.03%) NetBackup
8 1 (3.03%) SCCM
8 1 (3.03%) SCOM
8 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (96.97%) VMware
2 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
3 11 (33.33%) NetApp
4 9 (27.27%) Citrix
5 8 (24.24%) Dell
6 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
7 4 (12.12%) IBM
7 4 (12.12%) Oracle
8 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco
8 2 (6.06%) Google
8 2 (6.06%) HP
8 2 (6.06%) Juniper
9 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
9 1 (3.03%) Draytek
9 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.03%) SonicWALL
9 1 (3.03%) Veeam
9 1 (3.03%) WatchGuard
9 1 (3.03%) Zerto