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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 339 355
Rank change year-on-year -52 +16 +19
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 55 30 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 3.05% 2.06% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 17
10th Percentile £369 £363 £270
25th Percentile £434 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% +12.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £488
90th Percentile £644 £580 £553
England median daily rate £538 £575 £514
% change year-on-year -6.52% +11.92% -1.67%

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 1,803 1,459 1,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.98% 10.90% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 921 1,222
10th Percentile £250 £280 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 20
10th Percentile £20.20 £22.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £27.00 £22.63 £20.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +75.95% +7.46% -60.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £24.18
90th Percentile £69.40 £41.13 £58.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +68.36% +55.09% -46.10%

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 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 1 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 -5 15 £500 -
North London - 1 £225 -
East London - 1 £550 - 3
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 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.09%) nginx
2 5 (9.09%) Tomcat
3 3 (5.45%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.64%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.82%) IIS
5 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) AWS
3 5 (9.09%) GCP
3 5 (9.09%) IaaS
3 5 (9.09%) PaaS
4 4 (7.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (7.27%) Azure Stack
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (5.45%) Nutanix
5 3 (5.45%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.82%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.82%) MinIO
7 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (29.09%) Firewall
2 15 (27.27%) DNS
3 11 (20.00%) VPN
4 10 (18.18%) DHCP
4 10 (18.18%) VSAN
5 7 (12.73%) Network Security
6 6 (10.91%) SMTP
7 5 (9.09%) VLAN
8 4 (7.27%) HTTP
9 3 (5.45%) LAN
9 3 (5.45%) SAN
9 3 (5.45%) WAN
9 3 (5.45%) Wireless
10 2 (3.64%) DMZ
10 2 (3.64%) NAS
10 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (1.82%) DSL
11 1 (1.82%) VoIP
11 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.45%) Big Data
4 2 (3.64%) GIS
5 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Git
1 2 (3.64%) Subversion
2 1 (1.82%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Finance
2 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.82%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) VMware Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 6 (10.91%) Senior VMware Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 3 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Architect
8 3 (5.45%) Engineering Specialist
8 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Support
8 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Wintel Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Terraform
2 3 (5.45%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.45%) REST
3 2 (3.64%) EJB
3 2 (3.64%) Java SE
3 2 (3.64%) JSON
3 2 (3.64%) JSP
4 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.82%) Jakarta EE
4 1 (1.82%) JavaBeans
4 1 (1.82%) Middleware
4 1 (1.82%) OpenLayers
4 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Clustering
2 6 (10.91%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.91%) PKI
3 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (7.27%) Replication
5 3 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 40 (72.73%) Windows
2 32 (58.18%) Windows Server
3 23 (41.82%) Linux
4 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (9.09%) Solaris
7 5 (9.09%) VMS
7 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (7.27%) SUSE
9 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (1.82%) Unix
11 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
11 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (20.00%) High Availability
5 9 (16.36%) DevOps
6 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
6 7 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (12.73%) Migration
6 7 (12.73%) Server Management
7 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
7 6 (10.91%) Validation
8 5 (9.09%) Converged Infrastructure
8 5 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 5 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (9.09%) Storage Management
9 4 (7.27%) Containerisation
9 4 (7.27%) Network Segmentation
9 4 (7.27%) Roadmaps
9 4 (7.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) PowerShell
2 9 (16.36%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) Java
4 5 (9.09%) Bash
5 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.45%) SQL
6 2 (3.64%) Bicep
7 1 (1.82%) Korn
7 1 (1.82%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (50.91%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.09%) Degree
5 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.82%) CCNA
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.82%) CISSP
7 1 (1.82%) MCSE
7 1 (1.82%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (89.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (45.45%) vSphere
3 21 (38.18%) Active Directory
4 12 (21.82%) VMware NSX
5 11 (20.00%) Hyper-V
6 9 (16.36%) Docker
7 8 (14.55%) Firmware
8 7 (12.73%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (10.91%) BitLocker
9 6 (10.91%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (7.27%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (7.27%) Terminal Services
12 3 (5.45%) UAG
13 1 (1.82%) Ceph
13 1 (1.82%) NFS
13 1 (1.82%) Samba
13 1 (1.82%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 36 (65.45%) vCenter Server
2 13 (23.64%) Ansible
2 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 8 (14.55%) Puppet
4 6 (10.91%) vMotion
5 4 (7.27%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (7.27%) Nagios
5 4 (7.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (7.27%) VxRail
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.64%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.64%) Nessus
7 2 (3.64%) PowerCLI
7 2 (3.64%) SCCM
7 2 (3.64%) vRealize
8 1 (1.82%) logstash
8 1 (1.82%) OpenNMS
8 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.82%) SCOM
8 1 (1.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (98.18%) VMware
2 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.36%) Dell
4 8 (14.55%) Citrix
5 6 (10.91%) EMC
5 6 (10.91%) NetApp
5 6 (10.91%) Oracle
6 5 (9.09%) Google
6 5 (9.09%) IBM
6 5 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 4 (7.27%) HP
7 4 (7.27%) Symantec
7 4 (7.27%) Tenable
8 3 (5.45%) Cisco
9 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.82%) ForeScout
10 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.82%) Juniper
10 1 (1.82%) Mirantis
10 1 (1.82%) Pure Storage