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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 121 147
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 55 38 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.67% 1.12% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 13.41% 7.35% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 24 14
10th Percentile £440 £413 £273
25th Percentile £463 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £625 £718 £648
England median daily rate £525 £529 £450
% change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 - £49.28
Median hourly rate £72.75 £80.00 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% +52.22% -
75th Percentile £76.31 - £55.83
90th Percentile £77.33 - -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £70.50 £48.58
% change year-on-year +3.19% +45.12% -6.58%

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 410 517 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.43% 15.26% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 380 423
10th Percentile £183 £200 £180
25th Percentile £450 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% +6.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £672 £719 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 18
10th Percentile - £13.25 £15.93
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +24.03% +22.47%
75th Percentile £87.50 £73.13 £56.48
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.25 £58.53
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 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
Wiltshire +17 34 £525 -4.55% 2
Bristol +11 13 £500 - 3
Devon 0 4 £550 +37.50% 3
Gloucestershire -5 4 £600 +20.00% 1
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 8 (14.55%) Confluence
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.64%) AWS
4 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (47.27%) VSAN
2 12 (21.82%) Firewall
2 12 (21.82%) SAN
3 6 (10.91%) FTP
3 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
4 5 (9.09%) DNS
4 5 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (7.27%) LAN
5 4 (7.27%) WAN
6 3 (5.45%) DHCP
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) JIRA
2 4 (7.27%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
General
1 13 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Electronics
5 2 (3.64%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing
5 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (49.09%) VMware Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Senior
4 5 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) Architect
7 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Flash
1 4 (7.27%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (45.45%) PKI
2 22 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (12.73%) Clustering
3 7 (12.73%) Replication
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (69.09%) Linux
2 27 (49.09%) Windows
3 19 (34.55%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) Unix
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (16.36%) Validation
4 7 (12.73%) Change Management
5 6 (10.91%) High Availability
5 6 (10.91%) ITIL
6 5 (9.09%) Agile
6 5 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
7 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
7 4 (7.27%) Computer Science
7 4 (7.27%) Containerisation
7 4 (7.27%) Data Protection
7 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (7.27%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (7.27%) NsoIT
7 4 (7.27%) Project Management
7 4 (7.27%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (7.27%) Service Management
7 4 (7.27%) System Testing
7 4 (7.27%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.27%) Bash
2 4 (7.27%) C
2 4 (7.27%) Python
3 2 (3.64%) C#
3 2 (3.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 48 (87.27%) Security Cleared
2 35 (63.64%) DV Cleared
3 13 (23.64%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (9.09%) Degree
6 4 (7.27%) CCNA
6 4 (7.27%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.64%) MCSE
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (78.18%) VMware NSX
2 29 (52.73%) vSphere
3 21 (38.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
5 5 (9.09%) VMFS
6 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.64%) Docker
7 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.82%) XenApp
8 1 (1.82%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (32.73%) vCenter Server
2 8 (14.55%) Ansible
3 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.27%) SCCM
4 4 (7.27%) Terraform
5 2 (3.64%) VxRail
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (90.91%) VMware
2 17 (30.91%) Microsoft
3 10 (18.18%) Atlassian
3 10 (18.18%) Cisco
4 9 (16.36%) Veeam
5 7 (12.73%) Palo Alto
6 6 (10.91%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.27%) CyberArk
8 3 (5.45%) Dell
9 2 (3.64%) HP
9 2 (3.64%) SAP
10 1 (1.82%) Citrix
10 1 (1.82%) Ivanti
10 1 (1.82%) Veritas