VMware ESXi Contracts in the South East

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 175 191
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 -34
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 34 42 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.62% 0.74% 0.92%
As % of the System Software category 4.40% 5.12% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 35 51
10th Percentile £429 £363 £256
25th Percentile £501 £433 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year +27.37% +7.95% +3.23%
75th Percentile £608 £569 £488
90th Percentile £610 £690 £570
England median daily rate £525 £513 £450
% change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £54.00 -
25th Percentile - £55.88 £77.50
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.25% -
75th Percentile - £71.38 £82.50
90th Percentile - £74.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £53.82 £46.79
% change year-on-year +35.19% +15.01% -10.02%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 773 820 1,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.04% 14.41% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 576 876
10th Percentile £202 £205 £165
25th Percentile £363 £353 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 45 55
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.49 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £53.19 £54.56 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +172.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64.06 £70.00 £34.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.81
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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
Thames Valley +6 24 £605 +32.97% 3
Berkshire +6 19 £605 +16.35% 3
Hampshire -5 8 £507 -18.92% 8
Buckinghamshire +9 3 £590 +29.67%
Oxfordshire +6 2 £465 -7.00%
Surrey +20 1 £255 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £475 -
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 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) Azure
2 14 (41.18%) OCI
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.88%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.88%) IaaS
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (76.47%) DNS
2 23 (67.65%) DHCP
3 19 (55.88%) SAN
4 18 (52.94%) Firewall
5 4 (11.76%) NAS
5 4 (11.76%) VSAN
6 3 (8.82%) SNA
7 2 (5.88%) LAN
7 2 (5.88%) VPN
7 2 (5.88%) WAN
7 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.94%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.94%) Skype
8 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
8 1 (2.94%) VLAN
8 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (11.76%) MySQL
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Server Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 1 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.71%) PKI
3 4 (11.76%) Fat Client
3 4 (11.76%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.94%) CMDB
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 25 (73.53%) Windows Server
3 24 (70.59%) Linux
4 20 (58.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (52.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (44.12%) Windows 10
8 14 (41.18%) Windows XP
9 4 (11.76%) Ubuntu
10 3 (8.82%) Solaris
10 3 (8.82%) Unix
11 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
12 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (50.00%) ITIL
2 17 (50.00%) Server Management
3 16 (47.06%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (44.12%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (44.12%) Proactive Monitoring
5 14 (41.18%) Break/Fix
5 14 (41.18%) Converged Infrastructure
5 14 (41.18%) Performance Monitoring
5 14 (41.18%) Project Management
5 14 (41.18%) Storage Management
6 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.82%) Network Architecture
7 3 (8.82%) Patch Management
7 3 (8.82%) SDLC
8 2 (5.88%) Change Management
8 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.65%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) Perl
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 21 (61.76%) SC Cleared
3 15 (44.12%) Degree
3 15 (44.12%) DV Cleared
4 14 (41.18%) CCNA
4 14 (41.18%) CCNP
4 14 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (79.41%) Active Directory
1 27 (79.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (47.06%) Hyper-V
3 5 (14.71%) vSphere
4 3 (8.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (73.53%) vCenter Server
2 22 (64.71%) WSUS
3 21 (61.76%) SCCM
4 16 (47.06%) SCOM
5 14 (41.18%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (41.18%) NetBackup
6 10 (29.41%) Ansible
7 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (17.65%) Nessus
9 4 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (11.76%) ZABBIX
10 3 (8.82%) Terraform
10 3 (8.82%) vRealize
11 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
11 2 (5.88%) Rancher
11 2 (5.88%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 1 (2.94%) SELinux
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (64.71%) Microsoft
3 19 (55.88%) Veeam
4 18 (52.94%) Oracle
5 16 (47.06%) Cisco
5 16 (47.06%) Dell
5 16 (47.06%) HP
6 15 (44.12%) EMC
6 15 (44.12%) Symantec
7 14 (41.18%) 3PAR
7 14 (41.18%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (41.18%) Juniper
7 14 (41.18%) Palo Alto
8 7 (20.59%) Red Hat
9 2 (5.88%) Google
9 2 (5.88%) IBM
9 2 (5.88%) Meraki
9 2 (5.88%) Qualys
9 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.94%) Splunk