VMware ESXi Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 254 267 320
Rank change year-on-year +13 +53 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 82 133 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.64% 0.60%
As % of the System Software category 4.52% 5.41% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 93 112
10th Percentile £350 £364 £364
25th Percentile £474 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £591 £608 £579
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £29.15 £40.50
25th Percentile £78.75 £42.13 £52.00
Median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +29.48% -0.81%
75th Percentile £86.25 £74.63 £54.25
90th Percentile - £76.65 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +22.22% +26.17% +1.80%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,814 2,460 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.21% 11.84% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,649 2,640
10th Percentile £190 £175 £181
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £460 £483
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -4.69% +7.26%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £662 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 191 192
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £41.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -47.46% +131.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +49 37 £575 -4.96% 32
South West +23 22 £550 +4.76% 17
North of England +18 19 £375 +10.29% 15
North West +23 13 £350 - 12
Yorkshire +5 6 £488 +43.38% 3
Midlands +12 2 £550 +12.82% 12
Scotland -5 2 £443 -35.64%
East of England +29 1 £600 +9.09% 2
West Midlands +4 1 £550 +12.82% 7
Wales - 1 £200 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (19.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (14.63%) Confluence
3 6 (7.32%) IIS
3 6 (7.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.22%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.22%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.51%) AWS
2 12 (14.63%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) PaaS
3 8 (9.76%) GCP
3 8 (9.76%) IaaS
3 8 (9.76%) OpenShift
4 7 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (7.32%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.88%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.66%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.22%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (31.71%) DNS
2 23 (28.05%) DHCP
3 16 (19.51%) Firewall
4 10 (12.20%) iSCSI
5 9 (10.98%) VPN
6 8 (9.76%) SMTP
6 8 (9.76%) VSAN
7 6 (7.32%) SAN
8 4 (4.88%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (2.44%) Network Security
9 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.22%) NGFW
10 1 (1.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (9.76%) Big Data
1 8 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (17.07%) JIRA
2 3 (3.66%) Git
3 2 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 26 (31.71%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Finance
4 4 (4.88%) Legal
5 2 (2.44%) Banking
5 2 (2.44%) Electronics
5 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.44%) Marketing
5 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (37.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 10 (12.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Administrator
4 9 (10.98%) Support Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (9.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (8.54%) Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) VMWare Administrator
6 7 (8.54%) Wintel Administrator
7 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (7.32%) VMware Architect
8 5 (6.10%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Linux Administrator
10 2 (2.44%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) Flash
2 1 (1.22%) .NET
2 1 (1.22%) LDAP
2 1 (1.22%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.22%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 26 (31.71%) Clustering
2 16 (19.51%) Data Centre
3 13 (15.85%) PKI
4 10 (12.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (62.20%) Windows
2 42 (51.22%) Windows Server
3 26 (31.71%) Linux
4 16 (19.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (18.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (17.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (13.41%) Windows 10
8 7 (8.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (7.32%) Unix
10 5 (6.10%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (4.88%) VMS
12 2 (2.44%) CentOS
12 2 (2.44%) Solaris
13 1 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
13 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (1.22%) Windows Vista
13 1 (1.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (52.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (30.49%) High Availability
3 16 (19.51%) Network Virtualisation
4 15 (18.29%) Agile
4 15 (18.29%) Waterfall
5 14 (17.07%) NsoIT
5 14 (17.07%) Power Management
5 14 (17.07%) Service Management
5 14 (17.07%) System Testing
5 14 (17.07%) Validation
6 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
6 12 (14.63%) Critical Thinking
7 10 (12.20%) Patch Management
7 10 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (10.98%) ITIL
8 9 (10.98%) Migration
9 8 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (9.76%) DevOps
9 8 (9.76%) Machine Learning
9 8 (9.76%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.39%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.10%) Bash
2 5 (6.10%) Python
3 4 (4.88%) SQL
4 2 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (1.22%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 61 (74.39%) Security Cleared
2 33 (40.24%) SC Cleared
3 31 (37.80%) DV Cleared
4 23 (28.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (25.61%) Degree
6 13 (15.85%) CCNA
6 13 (15.85%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (14.63%) Master's Degree
8 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (12.20%) MCSE
10 4 (4.88%) VCP5
10 4 (4.88%) VCP6
11 3 (3.66%) CCNP
12 2 (2.44%) MCSA
13 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.22%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
2 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.44%) QA
3 1 (1.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (74.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (52.44%) Active Directory
3 32 (39.02%) VMware NSX
4 17 (20.73%) Hyper-V
5 13 (15.85%) vSphere
6 9 (10.98%) Terminal Services
6 9 (10.98%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (9.76%) BitLocker
7 8 (9.76%) Docker
7 8 (9.76%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (9.76%) NFS
8 1 (1.22%) Firmware
8 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 47 (57.32%) vCenter Server
2 16 (19.51%) Ansible
3 12 (14.63%) vMotion
4 11 (13.41%) Nagios
5 10 (12.20%) Puppet
6 9 (10.98%) Kubernetes
6 9 (10.98%) WSUS
7 6 (7.32%) vRealize
8 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (4.88%) NetApp OnCommand
9 4 (4.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
10 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (2.44%) SCCM
10 2 (2.44%) SCOM
10 2 (2.44%) SELinux
10 2 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.44%) Terraform
10 2 (2.44%) ZABBIX
11 1 (1.22%) OPNET
Vendors
1 79 (96.34%) VMware
2 33 (40.24%) Microsoft
3 15 (18.29%) Cisco
3 15 (18.29%) Citrix
4 13 (15.85%) Atlassian
4 13 (15.85%) Dell
5 11 (13.41%) HP
6 10 (12.20%) Symantec
7 9 (10.98%) Wyse
8 8 (9.76%) Google
9 7 (8.54%) Red Hat
9 7 (8.54%) Veeam
10 5 (6.10%) Splunk
11 4 (4.88%) NetApp
11 4 (4.88%) SolarWinds
12 3 (3.66%) Veritas
13 2 (2.44%) F5
13 2 (2.44%) IBM
13 2 (2.44%) Oracle
13 2 (2.44%) SAP