VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Scotland

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 14 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.60% - 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 5.62% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £286 - £488
25th Percentile £400 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.77%
75th Percentile £538 - £581
90th Percentile - - £593
UK median daily rate £538 £565 £515
% change year-on-year -4.87% +9.71% -1.90%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 249 135 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.60% 8.54% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 76 163
10th Percentile £205 £226 £184
25th Percentile £375 £409 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £484 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +13.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £500
90th Percentile £650 £588 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile - - £15.70
25th Percentile £13.97 £23.13 £18.55
Median hourly rate £15.81 £23.75 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year -33.43% +6.83% -60.48%
75th Percentile - £24.38 £24.18
90th Percentile £27.65 - £49.59
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £34.00 £24.20
% change year-on-year +85.69% +40.50% -51.60%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Scotland

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Scotland

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Glasgow - 9 £525 - 4
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £400 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £500 -
Edinburgh - 1 £220 - 1
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DHCP
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) Senior
2 6 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Integration Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Hyper-V Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (35.71%) Private Cloud
3 3 (21.43%) PKI
4 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
5 1 (7.14%) Clustering
5 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (7.14%) NVMe
5 1 (7.14%) Replication
5 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
1 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Validation
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (35.71%) Open Source
4 5 (35.71%) Release Automation
4 5 (35.71%) Secure Coding
4 5 (35.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Application Virtualisation
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (21.43%) High Availability
6 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Perl
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (35.71%) vSphere
4 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
4 3 (21.43%) UAG
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (7.14%) Firmware
6 1 (7.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
3 1 (7.14%) SCOM
3 1 (7.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) SaltStack
3 2 (14.29%) Acronis
3 2 (14.29%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) Intel
4 1 (7.14%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Qualys
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam