VMware ESXi Contracts in the North of England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 147 165 205
Rank change year-on-year +18 +40 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 19 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.42% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 3.75% 3.58% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 8
10th Percentile £324 £315 £294
25th Percentile £350 £319 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £340 £420
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -19.05% -1.18%
75th Percentile £480 £450 £491
90th Percentile £526 £578 £549
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £35.87
25th Percentile - - £42.81
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £52.82
% change year-on-year +22.22% +27.80% +12.88%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +23 13 £350 - 12
Yorkshire +5 6 £488 +43.38% 3
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (26.32%) IIS
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) OneDrive
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) DHCP
1 8 (42.11%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) VSAN
General
1 4 (21.05%) Legal
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Administrator
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (31.58%) Wintel Administrator
2 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
1 14 (73.68%) Windows Server
2 13 (68.42%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (42.11%) Linux
6 4 (21.05%) Unix
7 2 (10.53%) CentOS
7 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) High Availability
1 7 (36.84%) Patch Management
1 7 (36.84%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL
3 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) E-Discovery
4 4 (21.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 4 (21.05%) RBAC
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
5 3 (15.79%) Resource Management
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) Change Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) MCSE
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) SLA
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (84.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (73.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (36.84%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (36.84%) VMware NSX
4 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (84.21%) vCenter Server
2 7 (36.84%) WSUS
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (15.79%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (15.79%) vMotion
4 2 (10.53%) Ansible
4 2 (10.53%) Nagios
4 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.53%) Terraform
4 2 (10.53%) ZABBIX
5 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (89.47%) VMware
2 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (31.58%) Citrix
4 2 (10.53%) Dell
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) IBM
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.53%) Veeam