VMware ESXi Contracts in London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring VMware ESXi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 375 385
Rank change year-on-year +54 +10 +76
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 34 18 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.10% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 2.38% 0.97% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 71
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £400 £350 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £547
Median % change year-on-year - -17.73% +2.72%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £650
90th Percentile £584 £650 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £72.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +16.40% +23.60%

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 1,426 1,847 2,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.98% 10.49% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 1,337 2,177
10th Percentile £270 £250 £244
25th Percentile £413 £388 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -12.61% +1.86%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 34 32
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.14 £21.39
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £26.45 £23.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -61.42% +95.12%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £58.50 £49.23 £84.80
England median hourly rate £29.00 £22.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.04% -55.40% +150.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in London.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in London

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 2 July 2025. 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 +7 3 £598 +13.81% 3
South London - 2 - - 1
West London - 2 - - 5
East London - 1 £225 -
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Skype for Business
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Entra ID
2 7 (20.59%) Nutanix
3 6 (17.65%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.88%) IaaS
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.94%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) TCP/IP
2 8 (23.53%) DNS
3 5 (14.71%) Firewall
3 5 (14.71%) VSAN
4 4 (11.76%) DHCP
5 3 (8.82%) iSCSI
5 3 (8.82%) VLAN
6 2 (5.88%) Kerberos
6 2 (5.88%) NAS
6 2 (5.88%) SAN
6 2 (5.88%) Skype
6 2 (5.88%) SMTP
6 2 (5.88%) SSL
6 2 (5.88%) VoIP
6 2 (5.88%) VPN
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 6 (17.65%) Subversion
3 5 (14.71%) TeamCity
4 4 (11.76%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) Mercurial
6 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.88%) Electronics
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Administrator
3 4 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Voice Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Development Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Site Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 1 (2.94%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) LDAP
2 2 (5.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Clustering
2 4 (11.76%) PKI
2 4 (11.76%) Replication
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Blog
4 2 (5.88%) e-Learning
4 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Linux
2 15 (44.12%) Windows
3 11 (32.35%) Windows Server
4 5 (14.71%) Solaris
5 4 (11.76%) Ubuntu
6 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.88%) VMS
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.94%) Unix
8 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) High Availability
2 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (17.65%) DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (14.71%) ITIL
4 5 (14.71%) Migration
4 5 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (11.76%) API Integration
5 4 (11.76%) Identity Management
5 4 (11.76%) ITSM
5 4 (11.76%) Kernel Tuning
5 4 (11.76%) RBAC
5 4 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
5 4 (11.76%) Security Hardening
5 4 (11.76%) Storage Management
6 3 (8.82%) Agile
6 3 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (8.82%) Problem Management
6 3 (8.82%) Security Auditing
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 6 (17.65%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) Perl
5 2 (5.88%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) PHP
5 2 (5.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) CCNA
2 2 (5.88%) CCNP
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
1 4 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (79.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (41.18%) Active Directory
3 10 (29.41%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (29.41%) vSphere
4 3 (8.82%) KVM
4 3 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.88%) BitLocker
5 2 (5.88%) Docker
5 2 (5.88%) Firmware
5 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (5.88%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.94%) NFS
6 1 (2.94%) Veritas File System
6 1 (2.94%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) vCenter Server
2 11 (32.35%) Ansible
3 5 (14.71%) Tivoli
4 4 (11.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (11.76%) QRadar
4 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (11.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (11.76%) vMotion
5 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.82%) Puppet
5 3 (8.82%) SCCM
5 3 (8.82%) Terraform
6 2 (5.88%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.88%) Netcool
6 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (2.94%) Control-M
7 1 (2.94%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (26.47%) Cisco
4 7 (20.59%) Citrix
5 5 (14.71%) CyberArk
5 5 (14.71%) IBM
5 5 (14.71%) Qualys
5 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
5 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
5 5 (14.71%) Splunk
6 4 (11.76%) EMC
6 4 (11.76%) SaltStack
7 2 (5.88%) Canon
7 2 (5.88%) McAfee
7 2 (5.88%) Oracle
7 2 (5.88%) SAP
8 1 (2.94%) F5
8 1 (2.94%) Isilon
8 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.94%) Snow