VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in the South East

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 134 164
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 +23
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 50 46 49
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.41% 1.04% 0.88%
As % of the System Software category 10.18% 7.09% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 28
10th Percentile £501 £257 £308
25th Percentile £550 £330 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £419 £510
Median % change year-on-year +40.90% -17.89% +2.00%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £650
90th Percentile - - £704
England median daily rate £555 £500 £541
% change year-on-year +11.00% -7.62% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £72.86 - -
25th Percentile £75.66 - -
Median hourly rate £83.32 - £78.00
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £88.97 - -
England median hourly rate £83.32 £112.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% +43.59% +48.42%

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 491 649 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.80% 14.74% 15.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 432 548
10th Percentile £190 £223 £181
25th Percentile £256 £360 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £600
90th Percentile £638 £672 £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 64
10th Percentile £56.25 £20.38 £15.50
25th Percentile £56.75 £33.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £57.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% +3.63% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £71.41
90th Percentile £88.30 - £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.50 £28.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.00% -37.74% +105.24%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the South East

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware ESXi

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 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware ESXi

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 3 October 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
Hampshire +25 26 £600 +9.09% 11
Thames Valley +7 24 £538 +37.82% 3
Berkshire +9 22 £538 +41.45% 3
Oxfordshire -7 2 - -
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) AWS
1 6 (12.00%) PaaS
2 4 (8.00%) GCP
2 4 (8.00%) IaaS
2 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (32.00%) Fibre Channel
1 16 (32.00%) iSCSI
2 9 (18.00%) DHCP
2 9 (18.00%) DNS
2 9 (18.00%) VSAN
3 7 (14.00%) Firewall
4 6 (12.00%) VPN
5 4 (8.00%) SMTP
6 3 (6.00%) PCoIP
7 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.00%) Wireless
8 1 (2.00%) NAS
8 1 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.00%) Big Data
1 4 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Architect
2 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 15 (30.00%) VMware Architect
4 14 (28.00%) VMware Engineer
5 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Coordinator
8 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Project Coordinator
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Server Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) PKI
2 5 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.00%) Clustering
3 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Windows
2 27 (54.00%) Windows Server
3 16 (32.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (16.00%) Linux
5 4 (8.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.00%) CentOS
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (18.00%) Edge Virtualization
2 9 (18.00%) Performance Analysis
3 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (14.00%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (14.00%) Validation
5 5 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (8.00%) DevOps
6 4 (8.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (8.00%) Operational Stability
6 4 (8.00%) Software Deployment
7 3 (6.00%) Coaching
7 3 (6.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (6.00%) Prototyping
8 2 (4.00%) Budget Management
8 2 (4.00%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (4.00%) Server Virtualisation
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) SQL
2 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (86.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 18 (36.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (32.00%) MCSE
5 14 (28.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (20.00%) VCP5
6 10 (20.00%) VCP6
7 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
8 6 (12.00%) Degree
9 2 (4.00%) A+ Certification
9 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (2.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (62.00%) vSphere
2 27 (54.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (32.00%) NFS
4 12 (24.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (12.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (8.00%) BitLocker
6 4 (8.00%) Docker
6 4 (8.00%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (8.00%) Terminal Services
6 4 (8.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.00%) Firmware
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (8.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Nagios
2 4 (8.00%) Puppet
2 4 (8.00%) vMotion
3 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.00%) SCCM
3 1 (2.00%) vRealize
3 1 (2.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (96.00%) VMware
2 27 (54.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (34.00%) NetApp
3 17 (34.00%) Veeam
4 16 (32.00%) Splunk
5 4 (8.00%) Citrix
5 4 (8.00%) Dell
5 4 (8.00%) Google
5 4 (8.00%) HP
5 4 (8.00%) Symantec
5 4 (8.00%) Wyse
6 2 (4.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco
6 2 (4.00%) Intel
6 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.00%) EMC
7 1 (2.00%) IBM
7 1 (2.00%) Juniper
7 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft