VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 17 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.50% - -
As % of the System Software category 15.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £545 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £610 - -
90th Percentile £637 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 - -

All System Software Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 107 22 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 15.74% 9.28% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 9 38
10th Percentile £452 £184 £329
25th Percentile £513 £213 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £517 £482
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% +7.26% +1.47%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £554
90th Percentile £643 £655 £640
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £590 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +31.11% -6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £15.75 - -
25th Percentile £21.55 - £35.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.41%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 - £36.17
% change year-on-year - - +76.41%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware ESXi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Milton Keynes

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) VSAN
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
2 3 (17.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) VMware Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Senior VMware Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) NOC Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
6 2 (11.76%) VMware Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Public Cloud
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
3 3 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (17.65%) Presales
3 3 (17.65%) SIEM
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (11.76%) Microservices
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
4 2 (11.76%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 12 (70.59%) VCAP
2 12 (70.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
4 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
5 5 (29.41%) CCNP
5 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (17.65%) CCSE
6 3 (17.65%) CCSM
7 2 (11.76%) MCSE
7 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
2 2 (11.76%) NCSC
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (82.35%) VMware NSX
2 4 (23.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (35.29%) Broadcom
3 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco
3 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
3 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto