VMware ESXi Contracts in the North West

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 130 147
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 13 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 4.69% 2.73% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 6
10th Percentile £313 - £363
25th Percentile - - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £444
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.41%
75th Percentile £438 - £522
90th Percentile £538 - £556
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - - £49.80
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 277 256 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.08% 9.29% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 182 366
10th Percentile £157 £178 £200
25th Percentile £250 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £564 £670 £650
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 29
10th Percentile £33.73 - £13.99
25th Percentile £40.81 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%
75th Percentile £73.81 £26.38 £52.13
90th Percentile £82.78 £46.18 £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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the North West

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North West

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the North West

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North West

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire 0 6 £350 - 1
Lancashire - 4 £438 - 3
Manchester +19 3 £425 - 10
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (38.46%) IIS
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (30.77%) OneDrive
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (15.38%) Nutanix
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DHCP
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
2 4 (30.77%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) VSAN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Administrator
1 6 (46.15%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (46.15%) Wintel Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
1 12 (92.31%) Windows Server
1 12 (92.31%) Windows Server 2016
2 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2012
2 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (46.15%) Linux
4 4 (30.77%) Unix
5 2 (15.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) High Availability
1 7 (53.85%) Patch Management
2 6 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) E-Discovery
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 4 (30.77%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) Resource Management
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.69%) Line Management
7 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.69%) Server Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) MCSE
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
1 12 (92.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (53.85%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (46.15%) Hyper-V
4 3 (23.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) vCenter Server
2 7 (53.85%) WSUS
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (23.08%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (23.08%) vMotion
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Nagios
4 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Citrix
4 2 (15.38%) Dell
4 2 (15.38%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds