VMware ESXi Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 70 100
Rank change year-on-year -60 +30 +38
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.11% 1.61% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 0.66% 10.38% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 4
10th Percentile - £425 £279
25th Percentile £363 £464 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £515 £339
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +52.03% +50.56%
75th Percentile £388 £535 £363
90th Percentile - £642 £367
England median daily rate £550 £477 £550
% change year-on-year +15.30% -13.27% -

All System Software Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 305 183 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.50% 15.53% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 123 218
10th Percentile £200 £201 £189
25th Percentile £365 £289 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £430
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +2.33% +1.18%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £564
90th Percentile £588 £661 £627
England median daily rate £500 £516 £500
% change year-on-year -3.15% +3.25% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £26.81 - £16.55
25th Percentile £27.65 £20.50 £17.54
Median hourly rate £29.68 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £31.08 £21.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £31.55 - £26.00
England median hourly rate £48.11 £31.75 £42.04
% change year-on-year +51.53% -24.47% +68.15%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Yorkshire -14 1 £375 - 1
South Yorkshire -62 1 - -
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat