VMware ESXi Contracts in Southampton

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 0.76% - 1.14%
As % of the System Software category 10.00% - 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £527
25th Percentile - - £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £635
75th Percentile - - £703
90th Percentile - - £743
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +27.78%

All System Software Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10 14 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 7.63% 8.64% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 15
10th Percentile £438 £307 £455
25th Percentile £531 £358 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £360 £525
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -31.43% +11.70%
75th Percentile £575 £450 £550
90th Percentile £600 £525 £600
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £570 £525
% change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £22.98
25th Percentile - - £25.56
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +196.30% -
75th Percentile - - £38.06
90th Percentile - - £57.98
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.78% +4.52% +162.50%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Southampton

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in Southampton.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Southampton

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware