VMware ESXi Contracts in the Midlands

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 109 121 155
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.44% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 0.85% 4.80% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 10
10th Percentile - £395 £396
25th Percentile £525 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +7.04% +14.58%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £526
90th Percentile - - £576
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 236 250 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.33% 9.07% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 182 338
10th Percentile £165 £150 £158
25th Percentile £250 £201 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £369 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% -18.06% +20.00%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £569
90th Percentile £700 £638 £690
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 26
10th Percentile £15.16 £14.59 £12.60
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.65 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.16 £19.95 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +3.64% +13.24%
75th Percentile £18.13 £23.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £30.05 £40.64 £65.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +4 1 £550 +12.82% 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Build Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft