VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% - 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 0.75% - 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile £363 - £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £339
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.56%
75th Percentile £388 - £363
90th Percentile - - £367
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £493 £340
% change year-on-year -13.79% +45.00% +51.11%

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 134 78 164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.91% 14.31% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 49 135
10th Percentile £196 £178 £195
25th Percentile £338 £243 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -12.20%
75th Percentile £525 £519 £550
90th Percentile £550 £580 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.60%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £17.63
90th Percentile - - £35.64
Yorkshire median hourly rate £29.68 - £14.63
% change year-on-year - - -46.33%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Leeds - 1 £375 -
VMware ESXi
Yorkshire

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware