VMware ESXi Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 312 333
Rank change year-on-year +52 +21 -118
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 133 141 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.59% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 5.42% 3.92% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 112 146
10th Percentile £322 £364 £260
25th Percentile £460 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £608 £588 £478
90th Percentile £674 £700 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £450
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £65.18 £39.34 £25.88
25th Percentile £67.31 £49.80 £34.66
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.13 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year +39.55% -0.81% +10.64%
75th Percentile £76.31 £55.25 £69.17
90th Percentile £77.33 £63.50 £77.17
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £54.50 £52.56
% change year-on-year +33.49% +3.70% +1.07%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,453 3,601 4,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.93% 15.08% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 2,606 3,312
10th Percentile £177 £180 £158
25th Percentile £281 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.16%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £561
90th Percentile £650 £680 £648
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 188 242
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £71.13 £51.65
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 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
South West +23 43 £500 - 17
South East +10 33 £605 +27.37% 18
North of England +37 20 £340 -22.29% 10
Scotland +45 19 £700 +33.33% 3
Midlands +34 16 £400 -12.17% 8
West Midlands +30 15 £400 -5.88% 7
Yorkshire +28 9 £340 - 6
North West +23 7 - - 3
North East +18 4 £560 +87.45% 1
East of England +10 2 £550 -24.14% 8
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 19 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.77%) Confluence
3 4 (3.01%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.56%) Azure
2 14 (10.53%) OCI
3 12 (9.02%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.52%) AWS
5 6 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.51%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.76%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.26%) IaaS
7 3 (2.26%) PaaS
8 2 (1.50%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.50%) SaaS
9 1 (0.75%) GCP
9 1 (0.75%) GitHub
9 1 (0.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 66 (49.62%) DNS
2 57 (42.86%) DHCP
3 45 (33.83%) SAN
4 42 (31.58%) Firewall
5 27 (20.30%) VSAN
6 16 (12.03%) LAN
6 16 (12.03%) WAN
7 15 (11.28%) TCP/IP
8 12 (9.02%) Remote Desktop
9 9 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (6.02%) VPN
11 6 (4.51%) FTP
11 6 (4.51%) SMTP
12 5 (3.76%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (3.01%) NAS
13 4 (3.01%) VLAN
14 3 (2.26%) SNA
15 2 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
15 2 (1.50%) NetScaler
15 2 (1.50%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.01%) MySQL
4 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket
2 4 (3.01%) Git
3 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.75%) Subversion
General
1 53 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.78%) Public Sector
3 7 (5.26%) Banking
3 7 (5.26%) Finance
4 6 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.01%) Legal
6 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.50%) Electronics
7 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.50%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Advertising
8 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 48 (36.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (21.80%) VMware Engineer
3 17 (12.78%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (6.02%) Lead
4 8 (6.02%) Network Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) Architect
5 7 (5.26%) Senior
5 7 (5.26%) Server Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Administrator
6 6 (4.51%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) SAN Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) SAN Storage Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) LDAP
2 5 (3.76%) Flash
3 4 (3.01%) REST
4 3 (2.26%) YAML
5 2 (1.50%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 44 (33.08%) Data Centre
2 33 (24.81%) PKI
3 21 (15.79%) Clustering
4 7 (5.26%) Replication
5 4 (3.01%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (3.01%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) CMDB
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (66.92%) Windows
2 77 (57.89%) Windows Server
3 65 (48.87%) Linux
4 26 (19.55%) Windows Server 2012
4 26 (19.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 25 (18.80%) Windows 10
6 20 (15.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (10.53%) Windows XP
8 12 (9.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (9.02%) Unix
9 8 (6.02%) Ubuntu
9 8 (6.02%) Windows 7
9 8 (6.02%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (3.76%) Solaris
10 5 (3.76%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (3.01%) CentOS
12 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (19.55%) Converged Infrastructure
3 26 (19.55%) ITIL
4 23 (17.29%) Project Management
5 19 (14.29%) Server Management
6 18 (13.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (12.03%) Proactive Monitoring
7 16 (12.03%) Storage Management
8 15 (11.28%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (10.53%) Break/Fix
9 14 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
10 13 (9.77%) High Availability
10 13 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (9.02%) Computer Science
12 11 (8.27%) Change Management
12 11 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (8.27%) Migration
13 10 (7.52%) Agile
14 9 (6.77%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 50 (37.59%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.53%) Python
3 12 (9.02%) Bash
4 8 (6.02%) Java
5 7 (5.26%) C#
6 4 (3.01%) C
6 4 (3.01%) SQL
7 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (62.41%) Security Cleared
2 60 (45.11%) DV Cleared
3 40 (30.08%) SC Cleared
4 27 (20.30%) CCNA
4 27 (20.30%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (20.30%) Degree
5 18 (13.53%) CCNP
5 18 (13.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.01%) A+ Certification
8 4 (3.01%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (3.01%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.50%) MCSE
9 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) NIST
2 4 (3.01%) QA
3 2 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (54.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 71 (53.38%) Active Directory
3 55 (41.35%) VMware NSX
4 35 (26.32%) Hyper-V
5 32 (24.06%) vSphere
6 8 (6.02%) KVM
6 8 (6.02%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (5.26%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (4.51%) BitLocker
8 6 (4.51%) Firmware
8 6 (4.51%) Terminal Services
9 5 (3.76%) VMware Server
10 4 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (2.26%) Docker
12 2 (1.50%) XenApp
12 2 (1.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 90 (67.67%) vCenter Server
2 38 (28.57%) SCCM
3 23 (17.29%) WSUS
4 22 (16.54%) Ansible
5 18 (13.53%) SCOM
6 14 (10.53%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (10.53%) NetBackup
7 11 (8.27%) Kubernetes
7 11 (8.27%) vRealize
8 9 (6.77%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (6.77%) vMotion
9 8 (6.02%) Terraform
10 7 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (4.51%) Nessus
12 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Clustering
13 4 (3.01%) Rancher
13 4 (3.01%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 4 (3.01%) VxRail
13 4 (3.01%) ZABBIX
14 2 (1.50%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 126 (94.74%) VMware
2 74 (55.64%) Microsoft
3 33 (24.81%) Cisco
3 33 (24.81%) Veeam
4 23 (17.29%) Dell
4 23 (17.29%) HP
5 21 (15.79%) Palo Alto
6 18 (13.53%) Oracle
6 18 (13.53%) Symantec
7 17 (12.78%) EMC
8 14 (10.53%) 3PAR
8 14 (10.53%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (10.53%) Juniper
9 11 (8.27%) Atlassian
9 11 (8.27%) Citrix
10 9 (6.77%) Red Hat
11 6 (4.51%) CheckPoint
11 6 (4.51%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.76%) F5
13 4 (3.01%) CyberArk