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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 381 378
Rank change year-on-year +74 -3 +85
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 34 15 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.086% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 2.54% 0.84% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 71
10th Percentile £353 £333 £413
25th Percentile £400 £433 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.02% +9.40%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £580 £650 £654
England median daily rate £550 £525 £521
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.77% +15.78%
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 £82.50 £72.75 £57.32
% change year-on-year +13.40% +26.93% +17.98%

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 1,337 1,794 2,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 10.27% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,296 2,133
10th Percentile £276 £231 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £763 £725 £775
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 34
10th Percentile £23.62 £17.14 £16.98
25th Percentile £25.84 £20.50 £25.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -62.50% +122.22%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £44.63 £49.23 £88.50
England median hourly rate £28.46 £22.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +29.34% -57.80% +180.65%

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 29 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 29 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 +11 4 £598 +31.32%
South London - 2 - - 2
West London - 2 - - 3
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 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) Confluence
3 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.88%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) Nutanix
4 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (8.82%) IaaS
5 3 (8.82%) PaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Rubrik
6 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 11 (32.35%) DNS
3 5 (14.71%) Firewall
3 5 (14.71%) VLAN
4 4 (11.76%) DHCP
4 4 (11.76%) NAS
4 4 (11.76%) SAN
4 4 (11.76%) VSAN
5 3 (8.82%) iSCSI
5 3 (8.82%) Kerberos
6 2 (5.88%) Skype
6 2 (5.88%) SMTP
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 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (5.88%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Git
1 9 (26.47%) TeamCity
2 8 (23.53%) Subversion
3 5 (14.71%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Serena SBM
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Administrator
2 7 (20.59%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Clustering
2 8 (23.53%) Replication
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Linux
2 13 (38.24%) Windows
3 9 (26.47%) Solaris
3 9 (26.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (8.82%) Ubuntu
6 2 (5.88%) VMS
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.94%) Unix
7 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) High Availability
2 9 (26.47%) DevOps
2 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (20.59%) API Integration
3 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.59%) Kernel Tuning
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (17.65%) Security Hardening
4 6 (17.65%) Storage Management
5 5 (14.71%) Data Security
5 5 (14.71%) ITIL
5 5 (14.71%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (11.76%) ITSM
6 4 (11.76%) Migration
6 4 (11.76%) Security Auditing
7 3 (8.82%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) Bash
3 8 (23.53%) Perl
4 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.82%) SQL
6 2 (5.88%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) Java
7 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.94%) Ruby
7 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) GDPR
1 8 (23.53%) 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 12 (35.29%) Active Directory
3 11 (32.35%) vSphere
4 8 (23.53%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (8.82%) NFS
5 3 (8.82%) Veritas File System
5 3 (8.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (5.88%) BitLocker
6 2 (5.88%) Docker
6 2 (5.88%) Firmware
6 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.88%) KVM
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (5.88%) Terminal Services
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Ansible
2 11 (32.35%) vCenter Server
3 8 (23.53%) QRadar
4 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (20.59%) Tivoli
5 6 (17.65%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (11.76%) vMotion
7 2 (5.88%) Control-M
7 2 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
7 2 (5.88%) Netcool
7 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.94%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (2.94%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.94%) Nagios
8 1 (2.94%) Puppet
8 1 (2.94%) SCCM
8 1 (2.94%) Terraform
8 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
3 9 (26.47%) CyberArk
3 9 (26.47%) Qualys
3 9 (26.47%) Splunk
4 8 (23.53%) Red Hat
5 7 (20.59%) IBM
5 7 (20.59%) SaltStack
5 7 (20.59%) ServiceNow
6 6 (17.65%) Cisco
6 6 (17.65%) Citrix
6 6 (17.65%) EMC
7 3 (8.82%) Oracle
8 2 (5.88%) BMC
8 2 (5.88%) Dell
8 2 (5.88%) Serena
8 2 (5.88%) Sybase
9 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.94%) Google
9 1 (2.94%) HP