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 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 103 108
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 +30
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 32 27 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.93% 1.10% 1.40%
As % of the System Software category 15.53% 9.34% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 33
10th Percentile £350 £325 £308
25th Percentile £403 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £605 £455
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +32.97% -9.00%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £530
90th Percentile £614 - £700
South East median daily rate £600 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £72.86 - -
25th Percentile £75.66 - -
Median hourly rate £83.32 - -
75th Percentile £87.97 - -
90th Percentile £88.97 - -
South East median hourly rate £83.32 - -

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 206 289 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.39% 11.72% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 195 264
10th Percentile £250 £266 £189
25th Percentile £327 £425 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £483
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +19.10% -1.47%
75th Percentile £663 £608 £575
90th Percentile £700 £651 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.05% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 11
10th Percentile £72.86 £33.62 £21.25
25th Percentile £75.66 £52.12 £47.95
Median hourly rate £83.32 £61.75 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +34.93% +13.17% +225.73%
75th Percentile £87.97 £65.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £88.97 £65.47 £64.50
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £51.25
% change year-on-year +4.78% +7.07% +156.25%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +28 30 £578 -4.55% 2
Oxfordshire -9 2 - - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) AWS
1 2 (6.25%) Azure
1 2 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) DHCP
2 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 4 (12.50%) VSAN
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
4 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.25%) Wireless
5 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.13%) iSCSI
5 1 (3.13%) Network Security
5 1 (3.13%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) VMware Engineer
2 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Coordinator
3 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Technical Coordinator
3 2 (6.25%) Technical Project Coordinator
4 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Lead
4 1 (3.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) LDAP
1 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 10 (31.25%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.25%) Linux
4 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) CentOS
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.13%) VMS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.75%) Validation
3 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (9.38%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (6.25%) Budget Management
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 2 (6.25%) ITIL
5 2 (6.25%) ITSM
5 2 (6.25%) Project Management
5 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (6.25%) Server Virtualisation
5 2 (6.25%) Service Management
5 2 (6.25%) Time Management
6 1 (3.13%) Coaching
6 1 (3.13%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (3.13%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.13%) Patch Management
6 1 (3.13%) Prototyping
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (84.38%) Security Cleared
2 23 (71.88%) DV Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) A+ Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.13%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) VCAP
5 1 (3.13%) VCP5
5 1 (3.13%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) vSphere
3 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.13%) NFS
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) VMware
2 10 (31.25%) Dell
2 10 (31.25%) Wyse
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) Intel
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) Splunk
5 2 (6.25%) Veeam
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.13%) NetApp
6 1 (3.13%) Zscaler