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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 97 93
Rank change year-on-year -48 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 26 9 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.76% 0.56% 0.88%
As % of the System Software category 7.12% 4.00% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 15
10th Percentile £316 - £299
25th Percentile £365 £525 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +37.50%
75th Percentile £503 £575 £581
90th Percentile £554 - £628
England median daily rate £522 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -5.09% +7.32% -1.44%

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 365 225 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.61% 14.10% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 155 156
10th Percentile £213 £194 £175
25th Percentile £350 £354 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £544 £609 £600
90th Percentile £626 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £42.50 - £14.59
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.32 £15.65
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.65 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.02% +129.03% -26.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £41.97 £19.95
90th Percentile - - £22.23
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -54.24%

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 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 11 £475 -
Birmingham -31 7 £398 -27.64%
Coventry - 6 £326 -
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 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) DHCP
1 7 (26.92%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) VSAN
General
1 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Storage Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) VMware Expert
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Linux Command Line
1 9 (34.62%) Replication
2 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 5 (19.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (26.92%) Cost Management
2 7 (26.92%) Cost Optimisation
2 7 (26.92%) High Availability
2 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (26.92%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (26.92%) Ticket Management
3 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (23.08%) Migration
3 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) Service Management
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Cost Control
4 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (15.38%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (15.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 26 (100.00%) vSphere
2 20 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (34.62%) GPFS
3 9 (34.62%) NFS
4 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
5 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
6 5 (19.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.85%) KVM
7 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) vRealize
2 6 (23.08%) vCenter Server
3 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 5 (19.23%) PowerCLI
4 4 (15.38%) vMotion
4 4 (15.38%) VxRail
5 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (34.62%) Cisco
2 9 (34.62%) IBM
2 9 (34.62%) Oracle
2 9 (34.62%) ServiceNow
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
4 5 (19.23%) Veeam
5 4 (15.38%) 3PAR
5 4 (15.38%) Nimble Storage