VMware ESXi Contracts in the South East

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 122 171 174
Rank change year-on-year +49 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 37 34 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.23% 0.61% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 8.51% 4.35% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 36
10th Percentile £525 £410 £363
25th Percentile £550 £500 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +27.37% +8.26%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £597
90th Percentile £650 £610 £700
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £52.23
25th Percentile £78.75 £20.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £82.50 £21.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +292.86% -61.47% -31.88%
75th Percentile £86.25 £21.50 £62.63
90th Percentile - - £70.50
England median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £52.82
% change year-on-year +22.22% +27.80% +12.88%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 435 781 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.45% 14.05% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 490 600
10th Percentile £250 £200 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +38 18 £550 -9.09% 13
Berkshire +31 18 £550 -9.09% 11
Hampshire +31 14 £600 +19.76% 16
West Sussex - 4 £550 - 1
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) PaaS
2 11 (29.73%) AWS
3 8 (21.62%) GCP
3 8 (21.62%) IaaS
3 8 (21.62%) OpenShift
4 3 (8.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (35.14%) Firewall
2 11 (29.73%) DHCP
2 11 (29.73%) DNS
3 9 (24.32%) VPN
4 8 (21.62%) iSCSI
4 8 (21.62%) SMTP
5 4 (10.81%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (8.11%) VSAN
7 1 (2.70%) Network Security
7 1 (2.70%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (21.62%) Big Data
1 8 (21.62%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
1 2 (5.41%) Subversion
General
1 12 (32.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.41%) Electronics
2 2 (5.41%) Finance
2 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.41%) Marketing
2 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (21.62%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Support Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (16.22%) VMware Architect
5 3 (8.11%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Data Centre
2 10 (27.03%) Onboarding
3 9 (24.32%) PKI
4 8 (21.62%) Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (64.86%) Windows
2 22 (59.46%) Windows Server
3 11 (29.73%) Linux
4 9 (24.32%) Windows 10
5 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.41%) Solaris
7 2 (5.41%) Unix
7 2 (5.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (21.62%) DevOps
2 8 (21.62%) Machine Learning
2 8 (21.62%) Software Deployment
3 5 (13.51%) Migration
3 5 (13.51%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (13.51%) SIEM
4 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
4 4 (10.81%) Edge Virtualization
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (10.81%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (5.41%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (5.41%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) High Availability
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (5.41%) Patch Management
5 2 (5.41%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) Bash
3 2 (5.41%) Perl
3 2 (5.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (86.49%) Security Cleared
2 26 (70.27%) DV Cleared
3 8 (21.62%) Degree
4 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
5 5 (13.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (10.81%) MCSE
6 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (10.81%) VCP5
6 4 (10.81%) VCP6
7 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.70%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) GDPR
1 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (54.05%) Active Directory
3 12 (32.43%) VMware NSX
4 9 (24.32%) Hyper-V
4 9 (24.32%) vSphere
5 8 (21.62%) BitLocker
5 8 (21.62%) Docker
5 8 (21.62%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (21.62%) NFS
5 8 (21.62%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) vCenter Server
2 10 (27.03%) Ansible
3 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.62%) Nagios
3 8 (21.62%) Puppet
3 8 (21.62%) vMotion
4 5 (13.51%) vRealize
5 4 (10.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (5.41%) SELinux
7 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
3 10 (27.03%) Symantec
4 9 (24.32%) Dell
4 9 (24.32%) Wyse
5 8 (21.62%) Citrix
5 8 (21.62%) Google
5 8 (21.62%) HP
6 5 (13.51%) Splunk
6 5 (13.51%) Veeam
7 4 (10.81%) NetApp
8 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
8 2 (5.41%) SAP
8 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.41%) Veritas
9 1 (2.70%) Intel
9 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.70%) Zscaler