VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 131 168
Rank change year-on-year -71 +37 +54
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 4 33 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.086% 0.92% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 0.57% 6.98% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 9
10th Percentile £357 £361 £308
25th Percentile £359 £419 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +19.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £556 £518 £530
90th Percentile £658 £560 £531
England median daily rate £550 £477 £550
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% -

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 706 473 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.10% 13.26% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 287 507
10th Percentile £187 £177 £185
25th Percentile £330 £289 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +3.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £538
90th Percentile £600 £631 £635
England median daily rate £500 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -3.15% +3.25% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.04 £15.75
25th Percentile £16.91 £17.44 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +16.26% -14.61%
75th Percentile £51.19 £25.39 £23.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £32.15 £61.20
England median hourly rate £48.11 £31.75 £42.04
% change year-on-year +51.53% -24.47% +68.15%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware ESXi

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 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMware ESXi

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 16 December 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 -40 2 £535 +25.88% 8
Yorkshire -60 2 £375 -27.18% 1
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (50.00%) SCCM
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Podman
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (25.00%) SCOM
4 1 (25.00%) SCOrch
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam