VMware ESXi Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 84 122 123
Rank change year-on-year +38 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 18 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.19% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the System Software category 9.05% 6.65% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 24
10th Percentile £448 £439 £354
25th Percentile £531 £586 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £455
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +32.97% -1.09%
75th Percentile £589 £608 £519
90th Percentile £590 £610 £544
South East median daily rate £575 £605 £475
% change year-on-year -4.96% +27.37% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £82.50 £21.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year +292.86% -61.47% -31.88%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 199 346 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.17% 12.88% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 246 265
10th Percentile £250 £175 £230
25th Percentile £363 £310 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +9.25% +6.20%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.86
25th Percentile - £46.25 £48.18
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +270.37%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £78.56
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +31 18 £550 -9.09% 11
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 3 (16.67%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) NGFW
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Electronics
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Coordinator
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Coordinator
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Coordinator
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 9 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) SIEM
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.56%) Benchmarking
5 1 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (5.56%) Service Design
5 1 (5.56%) Use Case
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) DV Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) VCAP
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) VMware NSX
3 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (16.67%) NFS
4 3 (16.67%) vSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) vRealize
2 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 3 (16.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (50.00%) Dell
2 9 (50.00%) Wyse
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Intel
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler