VMware ESXi Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 307 336
Rank change year-on-year +30 +29 -125
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 119 144 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the System Software category 4.97% 4.13% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 116 141
10th Percentile £320 £390 £256
25th Percentile £458 £442 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £608 £591 £477
90th Percentile £625 £681 £570
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £446
% change year-on-year +2.44% +14.85% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £65.18 £37.03 £25.88
25th Percentile £67.31 £45.14 £34.66
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.13 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year +39.55% -0.81% +10.64%
75th Percentile £76.31 - £69.17
90th Percentile £77.33 £63.94 £77.17
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £61.32 £52.56
% change year-on-year +18.65% +16.67% +1.07%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,394 3,486 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.80% 15.15% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 2,497 3,265
10th Percentile £179 £181 £158
25th Percentile £299 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.16%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 176 233
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £44.93 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.33% +154.69% -3.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £74.38 £49.35
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
South West +9 43 £513 +2.50% 16
South East -3 32 £605 +27.37% 16
Midlands +32 16 £400 -12.17% 11
West Midlands +33 15 £400 -5.88% 10
North of England +26 14 £340 -23.38% 12
Scotland +31 11 £638 +21.43% 2
North West +16 8 £500 +11.11% 2
Yorkshire +18 5 £338 - 9
East of England +4 3 £550 -12.00% 4
North East +10 1 £600 +93.55% 1
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (15.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) nginx
3 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.73%) Azure
2 14 (11.76%) OCI
3 12 (10.08%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.56%) AWS
5 5 (4.20%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.20%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.20%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.52%) IaaS
6 3 (2.52%) PaaS
7 2 (1.68%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.68%) SaaS
8 1 (0.84%) GCP
8 1 (0.84%) GitHub
8 1 (0.84%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 60 (50.42%) DNS
2 52 (43.70%) DHCP
3 42 (35.29%) SAN
4 41 (34.45%) Firewall
5 24 (20.17%) VSAN
6 16 (13.45%) TCP/IP
7 12 (10.08%) LAN
7 12 (10.08%) WAN
8 8 (6.72%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (5.88%) VPN
10 6 (5.04%) FTP
11 5 (4.20%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (4.20%) SMTP
11 5 (4.20%) VLAN
11 5 (4.20%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (3.36%) NAS
13 2 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (1.68%) NetScaler
13 2 (1.68%) Skype
13 2 (1.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.36%) MySQL
3 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.68%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.84%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 46 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.92%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.88%) Finance
5 4 (3.36%) Legal
6 3 (2.52%) Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.68%) Electronics
7 2 (1.68%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.68%) Marketing
7 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 49 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (23.53%) VMware Engineer
3 18 (15.13%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (7.56%) Server Engineer
5 8 (6.72%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) Administrator
6 6 (5.04%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) SAN Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) SAN Storage Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) Senior
6 6 (5.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Server Administrator
7 5 (4.20%) Unix Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.20%) Flash
1 5 (4.20%) LDAP
2 4 (3.36%) REST
3 2 (1.68%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.84%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 38 (31.93%) Data Centre
2 31 (26.05%) PKI
3 16 (13.45%) Clustering
4 8 (6.72%) Replication
5 4 (3.36%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (3.36%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) CMDB
7 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (65.55%) Windows
2 70 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 68 (57.14%) Linux
4 24 (20.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 24 (20.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (16.81%) Windows 10
5 20 (16.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (11.76%) Windows XP
7 13 (10.92%) Unix
8 12 (10.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (6.72%) Ubuntu
10 6 (5.04%) Solaris
11 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (4.20%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (3.36%) CentOS
12 4 (3.36%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (44.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (22.69%) Converged Infrastructure
3 26 (21.85%) ITIL
3 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (15.97%) Server Management
5 18 (15.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (15.13%) Project Management
6 17 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
7 16 (13.45%) Storage Management
8 15 (12.61%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (11.76%) Break/Fix
9 14 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
10 12 (10.08%) Change Management
10 12 (10.08%) High Availability
11 11 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.40%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (7.56%) Agile
14 8 (6.72%) Security Hardening
15 7 (5.88%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.61%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.56%) Bash
3 8 (6.72%) Java
3 8 (6.72%) Python
4 7 (5.88%) C#
5 5 (4.20%) SQL
6 4 (3.36%) C
7 1 (0.84%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (63.03%) Security Cleared
2 56 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 34 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 26 (21.85%) Degree
5 22 (18.49%) CCNA
5 22 (18.49%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (11.76%) CCNP
6 14 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.20%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.36%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) A+ Certification
9 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.68%) MCSE
11 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) NIST
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 1 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.84%) GDPR
3 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (57.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 61 (51.26%) Active Directory
3 52 (43.70%) VMware NSX
4 32 (26.89%) Hyper-V
5 31 (26.05%) vSphere
6 7 (5.88%) Firmware
7 6 (5.04%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (4.20%) BitLocker
8 5 (4.20%) Terminal Services
8 5 (4.20%) VMware Server
9 4 (3.36%) KVM
9 4 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (2.52%) Docker
10 3 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (2.52%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.84%) XenApp
11 1 (0.84%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (64.71%) vCenter Server
2 36 (30.25%) SCCM
3 24 (20.17%) WSUS
4 20 (16.81%) Ansible
5 19 (15.97%) SCOM
6 14 (11.76%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (11.76%) NetBackup
7 12 (10.08%) Kubernetes
8 10 (8.40%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (6.72%) vMotion
10 7 (5.88%) Nessus
11 6 (5.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (4.20%) Rancher
12 5 (4.20%) Terraform
12 5 (4.20%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 5 (4.20%) vRealize
13 4 (3.36%) VxRail
13 4 (3.36%) ZABBIX
14 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Clustering
15 1 (0.84%) SELinux
Vendors
1 113 (94.96%) VMware
2 63 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 34 (28.57%) Cisco
4 33 (27.73%) Veeam
5 25 (21.01%) Dell
6 22 (18.49%) HP
7 21 (17.65%) Palo Alto
8 18 (15.13%) Oracle
9 17 (14.29%) EMC
10 16 (13.45%) Symantec
11 14 (11.76%) 3PAR
11 14 (11.76%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (11.76%) Juniper
12 11 (9.24%) Atlassian
13 10 (8.40%) Red Hat
14 7 (5.88%) Citrix
15 6 (5.04%) CheckPoint
16 5 (4.20%) IBM
16 5 (4.20%) Infoblox
17 4 (3.36%) CyberArk