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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 372 404
Rank change year-on-year +49 +32 +65
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 30 19 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.17% 1.07% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 63
10th Percentile £350 £340 £419
25th Percentile £363 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £625
90th Percentile £588 £657 £671
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%

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 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +8 5 £598 +31.32% 1
East London - 1 £225 - 1
West London - 1 - - 1
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 9 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.33%) Skype for Business
3 3 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (3.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) GitHub
3 9 (30.00%) Nutanix
4 6 (20.00%) AWS
5 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 4 (13.33%) GCP
6 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (10.00%) IaaS
7 3 (10.00%) PaaS
8 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
8 2 (6.67%) Rubrik
8 2 (6.67%) SaaS
8 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
9 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) DNS
1 11 (36.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
3 4 (13.33%) DHCP
3 4 (13.33%) NAS
3 4 (13.33%) Skype
3 4 (13.33%) VLAN
4 3 (10.00%) Kerberos
4 3 (10.00%) SAN
5 2 (6.67%) SMTP
5 2 (6.67%) VoIP
5 2 (6.67%) VPN
5 2 (6.67%) VSAN
6 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.33%) SSL
6 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Big Data
3 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Git
1 9 (30.00%) TeamCity
2 8 (26.67%) Subversion
3 5 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Serena SBM
General
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Administrator
2 7 (23.33%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Server Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Messaging Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Site Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Clustering
2 8 (26.67%) Replication
3 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.33%) PKI
4 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) Blackberry
5 2 (6.67%) BYOD
5 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Linux
2 13 (43.33%) Windows
3 10 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (30.00%) Solaris
5 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
7 2 (6.67%) VMS
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (3.33%) Unix
8 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) High Availability
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (23.33%) API Integration
3 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (23.33%) Kernel Tuning
4 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) Security Hardening
4 6 (20.00%) Storage Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Security
5 5 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (13.33%) Migration
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Security Auditing
7 3 (10.00%) Agile
7 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (10.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Bash
3 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (26.67%) Perl
5 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.33%) Ruby
7 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) GDPR
1 8 (26.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (30.00%) vSphere
4 4 (13.33%) NFS
5 3 (10.00%) Veritas File System
5 3 (10.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (6.67%) BitLocker
6 2 (6.67%) Docker
6 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.67%) KVM
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (6.67%) Terminal Services
6 2 (6.67%) XenDesktop
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Ansible
2 8 (26.67%) QRadar
3 7 (23.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (23.33%) Tivoli
3 7 (23.33%) vCenter Server
4 6 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (16.67%) SCCM
6 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (6.67%) Control-M
7 2 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (6.67%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
7 2 (6.67%) Netcool
7 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 2 (6.67%) vMotion
8 1 (3.33%) Data Guard
8 1 (3.33%) Nagios
8 1 (3.33%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 29 (96.67%) VMware
2 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (30.00%) CyberArk
3 9 (30.00%) Qualys
3 9 (30.00%) Splunk
4 8 (26.67%) Red Hat
5 7 (23.33%) EMC
5 7 (23.33%) IBM
5 7 (23.33%) SaltStack
5 7 (23.33%) ServiceNow
6 6 (20.00%) Citrix
7 5 (16.67%) Cisco
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle
9 2 (6.67%) BMC
9 2 (6.67%) Dell
9 2 (6.67%) HP
9 2 (6.67%) McAfee
9 2 (6.67%) Serena
9 2 (6.67%) Sybase
9 2 (6.67%) Symantec