VMware ESXi Contracts in Scotland

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for VMware ESXi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 145 159
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 -55
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 20 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.89% 0.52% 0.48%
As % of the System Software category 6.54% 3.50% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 14
10th Percentile £503 £420 £142
25th Percentile £534 £457 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +31.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £773 £539 -
90th Percentile £830 £571 £475
UK median daily rate £525 £516 £450
% change year-on-year +1.69% +14.72% -

All System Software Skills
Scotland

VMware ESXi is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 306 428 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.69% 14.95% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 318 274
10th Percentile £188 £196 £158
25th Percentile £324 £380 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £632 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 17
10th Percentile - £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -32.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.57 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.14% +162.50% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Scotland

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Scotland

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in Scotland

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in Scotland

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 25 April 2024. 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
Renfrewshire +3 9 £563 +6.13%
Edinburgh +40 5 £806 +68.22%
Glasgow +3 4 £600 +29.17% 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £700 -
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (20.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) DNS
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
3 7 (35.00%) DHCP
4 5 (25.00%) SMTP
4 5 (25.00%) VPN
5 4 (20.00%) LAN
5 4 (20.00%) SAN
5 4 (20.00%) VSAN
5 4 (20.00%) WAN
6 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (15.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Clustering
2 7 (35.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Windows
1 15 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (25.00%) High Availability
3 5 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Organisational Awareness
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) Software Deployment
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (5.00%) Capacity Management
7 1 (5.00%) DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) CCNA
4 4 (20.00%) CCNP
4 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (25.00%) BitLocker
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (10.00%) vSphere
6 1 (5.00%) Docker
6 1 (5.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (40.00%) vMotion
3 5 (25.00%) SCCM
3 5 (25.00%) vRealize
4 3 (15.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (5.00%) Ansible
6 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (5.00%) Nagios
6 1 (5.00%) Puppet
6 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (35.00%) Citrix
4 5 (25.00%) Infoblox
5 4 (20.00%) F5
6 2 (10.00%) HP
6 2 (10.00%) McAfee
6 2 (10.00%) Symantec
6 2 (10.00%) Veritas
7 1 (5.00%) EMC
7 1 (5.00%) NetApp