VMware ESXi Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring VMware ESXi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 313 367
Rank change year-on-year +49 +54 +119
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 40 32 110
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 3.42% 2.20% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 24 84
10th Percentile £350 £322 £404
25th Percentile £434 £445 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.18% +6.12%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £575
90th Percentile £575 £634 £634
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £58.63
25th Percentile - - £65.31
Median hourly rate - - £71.50
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £67.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +22.22% +26.17% +1.80%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

VMware ESXi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware ESXi trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware ESXi.

VMware ESXi daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

VMware ESXi daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware ESXi.

VMware ESXi hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (27.50%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) PaaS
4 2 (5.00%) IaaS
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.50%) Rubrik
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (47.50%) DNS
2 17 (42.50%) DHCP
3 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (5.00%) Firewall
4 2 (5.00%) VSAN
5 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.50%) NAS
5 1 (2.50%) Network Security
5 1 (2.50%) NGFW
5 1 (2.50%) S/MIME
5 1 (2.50%) SAN
5 1 (2.50%) Skype
5 1 (2.50%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) VLAN
5 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Administrator
2 4 (10.00%) Architect
2 4 (10.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 4 (10.00%) Wintel Administrator
3 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Consultant
4 2 (5.00%) Designer
4 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Lead
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Build Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Site Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Technical Coordinator
5 1 (2.50%) VMware Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Build Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Flash
2 2 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Clustering
2 10 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.50%) BYOD
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Windows
2 11 (27.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (20.00%) Linux
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.50%) CentOS
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (27.50%) Agile
2 11 (27.50%) High Availability
3 10 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 10 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 10 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 10 (25.00%) NsoIT
3 10 (25.00%) Power Management
3 10 (25.00%) Service Management
3 10 (25.00%) System Testing
3 10 (25.00%) Validation
3 10 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 9 (22.50%) Migration
5 7 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (15.00%) Patch Management
7 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.00%) Roadmaps
8 2 (5.00%) Security Hardening
8 2 (5.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (27.50%) Degree
4 10 (25.00%) CCNA
4 10 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 10 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (55.00%) Active Directory
3 17 (42.50%) VMware NSX
4 6 (15.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (15.00%) vSphere
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) NFS
5 1 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) vCenter Server
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.50%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (2.50%) Forefront Identity Manager
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Nagios
4 1 (2.50%) Netcool
4 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) SCCM
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.50%) vRealize
4 1 (2.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (2.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (32.50%) Cisco
4 10 (25.00%) Atlassian
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) F5
6 2 (5.00%) IBM
6 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.00%) Splunk
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) Dell
7 1 (2.50%) EMC
7 1 (2.50%) HP
7 1 (2.50%) Intel
7 1 (2.50%) Isilon
7 1 (2.50%) Qualys
7 1 (2.50%) Serena
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.50%) Sybase