VMware ESXi Contracts in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +30 +25 -51
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 11 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.57% 0.33% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 6.83% 2.52% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £395 - £345
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £576 £388
90th Percentile - - £419
England median daily rate £550 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 161 318 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.39% 13.05% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 211 333
10th Percentile £187 £155 £164
25th Percentile £250 £263 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £405
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +17.28% +15.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £688 £625
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 26
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.34 £11.88
25th Percentile £15.21 £16.46 £14.06
Median hourly rate £17.80 £21.38 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.73% +27.61% +11.67%
75th Percentile £20.90 £50.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.61 £52.33 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -47.50% +110.53% +2.43%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

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 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

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 19 April 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
Worcestershire - 5 £550 -
Coventry - 4 £400 -
Birmingham +11 1 £350 -12.50%
Shropshire - 1 - -
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DHCP
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (9.09%) SAN
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Server Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) VMWare Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (45.45%) Information Management
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Security Hardening
3 5 (45.45%) Security Monitoring
3 5 (45.45%) Server Patching
3 5 (45.45%) SIEM
3 5 (45.45%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Virtual Environments
3 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Change Control
4 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (54.55%) VMware NSX
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Server
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) SCCM
1 10 (90.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Veeam