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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 319 367
Rank change year-on-year -50 +48 +93
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 21 35 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 1.22% 2.48% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 27
10th Percentile £487 £350 £443
25th Percentile £514 £369 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £621 £581 £650
90th Percentile £638 £626 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £112.00 -
England median hourly rate £97.50 £97.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +0.26% +24.68% +47.69%

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 1,716 1,410 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.19% 10.36% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 936 1,384
10th Percentile £325 £250 £210
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +13.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £625
90th Percentile £750 £813 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 35
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.50 £16.34
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.01 £21.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.11 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +4.42% -26.47%
75th Percentile £42.94 £42.44 £48.37
90th Percentile £67.70 £103.50 £61.50
England median hourly rate £32.93 £28.71 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.72% -28.24% +3.90%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -23 1 £510 -15.00% 2
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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) nginx
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) IaaS
1 4 (19.05%) PaaS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) DHCP
3 7 (33.33%) Firewall
4 5 (23.81%) NAS
4 5 (23.81%) SAN
5 4 (19.05%) SMTP
5 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (19.05%) VPN
6 1 (4.76%) BGP
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.76%) HTTP
6 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
6 1 (4.76%) OSPF
6 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Subversion
1 2 (9.52%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Police
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) NetApp Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
2 2 (9.52%) Express.js
2 2 (9.52%) React
2 2 (9.52%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) SOAP
2 2 (9.52%) WCF
2 2 (9.52%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Clustering
1 7 (33.33%) Replication
2 6 (28.57%) PKI
3 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (38.10%) Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (14.29%) Solaris
5 3 (14.29%) VMS
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (23.81%) High Availability
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (19.05%) Incident Management
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) API Integration
5 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (9.52%) Information Assurance
5 2 (9.52%) Kernel Tuning
5 2 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) Security Hardening
5 2 (9.52%) TDD
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bash
2 2 (9.52%) C#
2 2 (9.52%) Perl
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) DV Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (9.52%) VCAP
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.76%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (33.33%) vSphere
4 6 (28.57%) Docker
5 4 (19.05%) BitLocker
5 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
5 4 (19.05%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (19.05%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (9.52%) NFS
6 2 (9.52%) Veritas File System
6 2 (9.52%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
7 1 (4.76%) Firmware
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (4.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) vCenter Server
2 7 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
4 4 (19.05%) Puppet
4 4 (19.05%) vMotion
5 2 (9.52%) PowerCLI
5 2 (9.52%) QRadar
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (4.76%) SCCM
6 1 (4.76%) SCOM
6 1 (4.76%) Terraform
6 1 (4.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 7 (33.33%) NetApp
4 5 (23.81%) Citrix
5 3 (14.29%) CyberArk
5 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
6 2 (9.52%) Dell
6 2 (9.52%) Qualys
6 2 (9.52%) SaltStack
6 2 (9.52%) Splunk
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco
7 1 (4.76%) HP
7 1 (4.76%) IBM
7 1 (4.76%) Juniper
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle
7 1 (4.76%) Veeam