VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 114 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 -16 +69
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 17 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.77% 0.11% 0.74%
As % of the System Software category 4.16% 1.00% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £291 - £319
25th Percentile £291 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £325 - £425
90th Percentile £475 - £428
England median daily rate £550 £493 £550
% change year-on-year +11.56% -10.36% -

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 409 200 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.46% 10.95% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 139 201
10th Percentile £249 £158 £163
25th Percentile £376 £208 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £583 £605 £575
90th Percentile £685 £685 £700
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £16.82 £17.50
25th Percentile £54.75 £19.23 £17.75
Median hourly rate £56.50 £24.35 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.08% +31.59% -23.71%
75th Percentile £58.25 £29.60 £28.38
90th Percentile - £32.09 £28.75
England median hourly rate £37.73 £43.08 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.44% +7.71% +58.42%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware ESXi relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware ESXi.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Coventry - 10 £309 -
Birmingham -2 4 - -
Warwickshire -10 1 £550 - 1
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) VSAN
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (47.06%) Storage Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (70.59%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) Linux Command Line
1 12 (70.59%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Ticket Management
3 3 (17.65%) Validation
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) AI
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) vSphere
2 13 (76.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (70.59%) GPFS
3 12 (70.59%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) vRealize
2 1 (5.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (70.59%) Cisco
2 12 (70.59%) IBM
2 12 (70.59%) Oracle
2 12 (70.59%) ServiceNow