VMware ESXi Contracts in the South West

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 89 112 123
Rank change year-on-year +23 +11 +36
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 22 45 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.31% 1.41% 1.21%
As % of the System Software category 7.80% 12.57% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 34
10th Percentile £504 £428 £416
25th Percentile £520 £463 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.44%
75th Percentile £594 £593 £584
90th Percentile £688 £645 £634
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.75 -
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 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +24 15 £556 +17.11% 4
Dorset - 5 £550 -
Gloucestershire +14 1 - - 5
Bristol +6 1 £588 +17.50% 4
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 12 (54.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) DNS
1 4 (18.18%) VSAN
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (9.09%) DHCP
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) iSCSI
2 2 (9.09%) SAN
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) JIRA
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Administrator
3 1 (4.55%) Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Senior
3 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) VMWare Administrator
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) Flash
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 16 (72.73%) Clustering
2 4 (18.18%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (9.09%) VMS
4 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (68.18%) High Availability
3 14 (63.64%) NsoIT
3 14 (63.64%) Power Management
3 14 (63.64%) Service Management
3 14 (63.64%) System Testing
3 14 (63.64%) Validation
4 13 (59.09%) Agile
4 13 (59.09%) Waterfall
5 12 (54.55%) Computer Science
5 12 (54.55%) Critical Thinking
6 11 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (18.18%) ITIL
8 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (9.09%) Server Management
8 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 1 (4.55%) Decision-Making
9 1 (4.55%) Technology Roadmap
9 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Bash
1 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (90.91%) SC Cleared
3 14 (63.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 13 (59.09%) CCNA
4 13 (59.09%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (54.55%) Degree
5 12 (54.55%) Master's Degree
6 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
7 3 (13.64%) CCNP
8 2 (9.09%) MCSA
8 2 (9.09%) MCSE
8 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) NCSC
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (68.18%) VMware NSX
3 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
4 3 (13.64%) vSphere
5 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) vCenter Server
2 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (9.09%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) SCOM
3 2 (9.09%) WSUS
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Nessus
4 1 (4.55%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (4.55%) OPNET
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) vMotion
4 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (68.18%) Cisco
3 13 (59.09%) Atlassian
4 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.09%) F5
6 1 (4.55%) Dell
6 1 (4.55%) Veritas