VMware ESXi Contracts

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 437 522
Rank change year-on-year +3 +85 -174
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 159 286 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.48% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 3.39% 3.66% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 213 265
10th Percentile £325 £400 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £608 £604 £550
90th Percentile £668 £675 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% +0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 9
10th Percentile £65.18 £43.74 £37.06
25th Percentile £67.31 £52.13 £43.50
Median hourly rate £72.75 £54.50 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year +33.49% +3.70% +1.07%
75th Percentile £76.31 £76.88 £63.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £78.00 £69.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £52.13 £52.56
% change year-on-year +39.55% -0.81% +10.64%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,687 7,820 12,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 13.20% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,208 5,587 8,621
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £340 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% - +8.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 276 319
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £45.13
90th Percentile £79.60 £75.25 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.98 £43.75 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.06% +141.51% +2.93%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
UK excluding London +46 133 £525 +5.00% 53
England +30 133 £525 +0.96% 72
South West +18 43 £500 - 11
Work from Home +47 33 £550 +12.81% 22
South East +3 33 £605 +27.37% 17
North of England +33 20 £340 -22.29% 9
Scotland +41 19 £700 +33.33% 3
London +24 19 £525 -4.55% 20
Midlands +34 16 £400 -12.17% 8
West Midlands +32 15 £400 -5.88% 7
Yorkshire +29 9 £340 - 6
North West +13 7 - - 2
North East +18 4 £560 +87.45% 1
East of England +9 2 £550 -24.14% 6

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (13.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.66%) Confluence
3 5 (3.14%) IIS
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.42%) Azure
2 16 (10.06%) AWS
2 16 (10.06%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (9.43%) OCI
4 7 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.77%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.77%) IaaS
5 6 (3.77%) PaaS
6 5 (3.14%) Nutanix
6 5 (3.14%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.52%) GitHub
8 3 (1.89%) GCP
8 3 (1.89%) SaaS
9 2 (1.26%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.26%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.63%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (45.28%) DNS
2 62 (38.99%) DHCP
3 49 (30.82%) SAN
4 48 (30.19%) Firewall
5 34 (21.38%) VSAN
6 21 (13.21%) LAN
6 21 (13.21%) WAN
7 16 (10.06%) TCP/IP
8 13 (8.18%) Remote Desktop
8 13 (8.18%) VPN
9 9 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (5.03%) SNA
11 6 (3.77%) FTP
11 6 (3.77%) SMTP
12 5 (3.14%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (3.14%) NAS
12 5 (3.14%) NetScaler
13 4 (2.52%) VLAN
14 2 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.52%) MySQL
4 4 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (7.55%) JIRA
2 10 (6.29%) Git
3 4 (2.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.26%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 61 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.32%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.40%) Banking
3 7 (4.40%) Finance
4 6 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.52%) Legal
6 3 (1.89%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.26%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.26%) Electronics
7 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.26%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Advertising
8 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (32.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (22.64%) VMware Engineer
3 17 (10.69%) Storage Engineer
4 13 (8.18%) Lead
5 10 (6.29%) Network Engineer
6 9 (5.66%) Senior
7 8 (5.03%) Architect
7 8 (5.03%) Data Centre Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) Administrator
8 7 (4.40%) Server Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) SAN Storage Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.14%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.03%) YAML
2 7 (4.40%) LDAP
3 5 (3.14%) Flash
4 4 (2.52%) REST
5 2 (1.26%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.26%) JSON
6 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.63%) OAuth
6 1 (0.63%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.63%) OpenID
6 1 (0.63%) SAML
6 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.82%) Data Centre
2 36 (22.64%) PKI
3 22 (13.84%) Clustering
4 8 (5.03%) Replication
5 6 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.52%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.52%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.26%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) CMDB
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.63%) FMCG
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (62.26%) Windows
2 84 (52.83%) Windows Server
3 70 (44.03%) Linux
4 28 (17.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 27 (16.98%) Windows 10
5 27 (16.98%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (13.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (8.81%) Windows XP
8 13 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (8.18%) Unix
9 9 (5.66%) Ubuntu
10 8 (5.03%) Windows 7
10 8 (5.03%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (3.14%) Solaris
11 5 (3.14%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (2.52%) CentOS
13 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.63%) Android
14 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (38.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (16.35%) Converged Infrastructure
3 26 (16.35%) ITIL
4 23 (14.47%) Project Management
5 20 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (12.58%) Server Management
6 19 (11.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (10.06%) High Availability
7 16 (10.06%) Migration
7 16 (10.06%) Proactive Monitoring
7 16 (10.06%) Storage Management
8 15 (9.43%) CI/CD
8 15 (9.43%) Performance Monitoring
8 15 (9.43%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (8.81%) Break/Fix
10 13 (8.18%) Computer Science
10 13 (8.18%) Load Balancing
11 12 (7.55%) Change Management
12 11 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 66 (41.51%) PowerShell
2 23 (14.47%) Python
3 12 (7.55%) Bash
4 9 (5.66%) Java
5 7 (4.40%) C#
6 4 (2.52%) C
6 4 (2.52%) SQL
7 2 (1.26%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (57.23%) Security Cleared
2 64 (40.25%) DV Cleared
3 47 (29.56%) SC Cleared
4 31 (19.50%) Degree
5 27 (16.98%) CCNA
5 27 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (11.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 18 (11.32%) CCNP
8 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.52%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.52%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.89%) MCSE
12 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) NIST
2 4 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (55.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 78 (49.06%) Active Directory
3 63 (39.62%) VMware NSX
4 43 (27.04%) vSphere
5 37 (23.27%) Hyper-V
6 9 (5.66%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (5.66%) VMware Workstation
7 8 (5.03%) KVM
7 8 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (3.77%) BitLocker
9 6 (3.77%) Docker
9 6 (3.77%) Firmware
9 6 (3.77%) Terminal Services
10 5 (3.14%) VMware Server
11 3 (1.89%) XenApp
11 3 (1.89%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.63%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.63%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 103 (64.78%) vCenter Server
2 39 (24.53%) SCCM
3 32 (20.13%) Ansible
4 25 (15.72%) WSUS
5 19 (11.95%) Terraform
6 18 (11.32%) Kubernetes
6 18 (11.32%) SCOM
7 16 (10.06%) vRealize
8 14 (8.81%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (8.81%) NetBackup
9 9 (5.66%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (5.66%) vMotion
10 8 (5.03%) Nessus
11 7 (4.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (3.14%) VxRail
13 4 (2.52%) Rancher
13 4 (2.52%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 4 (2.52%) ZABBIX
14 2 (1.26%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 151 (94.97%) VMware
2 81 (50.94%) Microsoft
3 40 (25.16%) Cisco
4 33 (20.75%) Veeam
5 30 (18.87%) Dell
6 25 (15.72%) HP
7 21 (13.21%) Palo Alto
8 20 (12.58%) Oracle
9 19 (11.95%) Citrix
9 19 (11.95%) Symantec
10 18 (11.32%) EMC
11 15 (9.43%) Juniper
12 14 (8.81%) 3PAR
12 14 (8.81%) Extreme Networks
13 11 (6.92%) Atlassian
14 10 (6.29%) Red Hat
15 8 (5.03%) F5
15 8 (5.03%) IBM
16 6 (3.77%) CheckPoint
16 6 (3.77%) Infoblox