VMware ESXi Contracts

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 427 516
Rank change year-on-year -9 +89 -163
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 149 285 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 3.24% 3.73% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 214 266
10th Percentile £325 £403 £275
25th Percentile £457 £450 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £449
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.81% +2.75%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 9
10th Percentile £65.18 £42.81 £37.06
25th Percentile £67.31 £52.13 £43.50
Median hourly rate £72.75 £55.50 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year +31.08% +5.60% +1.07%
75th Percentile £76.31 £77.25 £63.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £78.00 £69.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £52.13 £52.56
% change year-on-year +39.55% -0.81% +10.64%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,603 7,639 11,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.13% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,165 5,442 8,492
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -3.76% +6.79% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 268 312
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.26
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £41.11
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.58 £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £39.80 £17.88
% change year-on-year -51.81% +122.63% -2.15%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +10 130 £525 +0.96% 85
UK excluding London +48 125 £525 +5.00% 65
South West +15 42 £500 - 15
South East +1 32 £605 +27.37% 15
Work from Home +32 26 £550 +14.57% 69
North of England +27 19 £340 -23.38% 12
London +20 18 £538 -2.27% 21
Midlands +38 16 £400 -12.17% 15
West Midlands +30 15 £400 -5.88% 13
Scotland +45 13 £600 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire +27 8 £339 - 8
North West +21 8 £500 +11.11% 2
North East +14 3 £600 +93.55% 2
East of England +2 3 £550 -15.38% 5

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (14.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.04%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) IIS
3 1 (0.67%) nginx
3 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (27.52%) Azure
2 15 (10.07%) AWS
2 15 (10.07%) OCI
3 14 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.03%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.03%) IaaS
4 6 (4.03%) PaaS
5 5 (3.36%) Nutanix
5 5 (3.36%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.68%) GitHub
7 3 (2.01%) GCP
7 3 (2.01%) SaaS
8 2 (1.34%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.34%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (47.65%) DNS
2 62 (41.61%) DHCP
3 47 (31.54%) Firewall
4 46 (30.87%) SAN
5 31 (20.81%) VSAN
6 17 (11.41%) LAN
6 17 (11.41%) WAN
7 16 (10.74%) TCP/IP
8 13 (8.72%) VPN
9 12 (8.05%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (5.37%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (4.03%) FTP
11 6 (4.03%) SMTP
11 6 (4.03%) SNA
12 5 (3.36%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (3.36%) NAS
13 4 (2.68%) NetScaler
13 4 (2.68%) VLAN
14 2 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
14 2 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.68%) MySQL
4 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (8.05%) JIRA
2 8 (5.37%) Git
3 4 (2.68%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 58 (38.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.70%) Finance
4 6 (4.03%) Banking
5 4 (2.68%) Legal
6 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.34%) Electronics
6 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.34%) Marketing
6 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (34.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 33 (22.15%) VMware Engineer
3 18 (12.08%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (6.04%) Network Engineer
4 9 (6.04%) Server Engineer
5 8 (5.37%) Data Centre Engineer
5 8 (5.37%) Senior
6 7 (4.70%) Administrator
6 7 (4.70%) Lead
6 7 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) SAN Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (4.03%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) IT Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.70%) LDAP
2 6 (4.03%) YAML
3 5 (3.36%) Flash
4 4 (2.68%) REST
5 2 (1.34%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.34%) JSON
6 1 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.67%) OAuth
6 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.67%) OpenID
6 1 (0.67%) SAML
6 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (30.87%) Data Centre
2 35 (23.49%) PKI
3 21 (14.09%) Clustering
4 9 (6.04%) Replication
5 6 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.68%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.68%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.34%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.67%) CMDB
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.67%) FMCG
8 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (61.07%) Windows
2 78 (52.35%) Windows Server
3 72 (48.32%) Linux
4 27 (18.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 24 (16.11%) Windows 10
5 24 (16.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (14.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (9.40%) Unix
7 14 (9.40%) Windows XP
8 13 (8.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (6.04%) Ubuntu
10 7 (4.70%) Windows 7
10 7 (4.70%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (4.03%) Solaris
12 5 (3.36%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (2.68%) CentOS
14 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.67%) Android
15 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (17.45%) Converged Infrastructure
3 26 (17.45%) ITIL
4 21 (14.09%) Project Management
5 20 (13.42%) Server Management
6 19 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (12.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (10.74%) High Availability
8 16 (10.74%) Proactive Monitoring
8 16 (10.74%) Storage Management
9 15 (10.07%) Performance Monitoring
9 15 (10.07%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (9.40%) Break/Fix
11 13 (8.72%) Change Management
11 13 (8.72%) CI/CD
11 13 (8.72%) Computer Science
11 13 (8.72%) Migration
12 11 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (6.71%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.26%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.08%) Python
3 9 (6.04%) Bash
3 9 (6.04%) Java
4 7 (4.70%) C#
5 5 (3.36%) SQL
6 4 (2.68%) C
7 2 (1.34%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 86 (57.72%) Security Cleared
2 63 (42.28%) DV Cleared
3 42 (28.19%) SC Cleared
4 32 (21.48%) Degree
5 23 (15.44%) CCNA
5 23 (15.44%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (12.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 14 (9.40%) CCNP
8 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.36%) Master's Degree
9 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.68%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.68%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (2.01%) MCSE
12 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) NIST
2 4 (2.68%) QA
3 2 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 88 (59.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (46.98%) Active Directory
3 60 (40.27%) VMware NSX
4 41 (27.52%) vSphere
5 37 (24.83%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.37%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (4.70%) Firmware
7 7 (4.70%) KVM
7 7 (4.70%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (4.70%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (4.03%) BitLocker
8 6 (4.03%) Docker
8 6 (4.03%) Terminal Services
8 6 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (3.36%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.67%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.67%) vCloud
10 1 (0.67%) XenApp
10 1 (0.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 98 (65.77%) vCenter Server
2 36 (24.16%) SCCM
3 31 (20.81%) Ansible
4 24 (16.11%) WSUS
5 19 (12.75%) Kubernetes
5 19 (12.75%) SCOM
6 17 (11.41%) Terraform
7 14 (9.40%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (9.40%) NetBackup
8 13 (8.72%) vRealize
9 10 (6.71%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (6.04%) vMotion
11 8 (5.37%) Nessus
12 6 (4.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (3.36%) Rancher
13 5 (3.36%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 5 (3.36%) VxRail
14 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (2.68%) ZABBIX
15 2 (1.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 142 (95.30%) VMware
2 72 (48.32%) Microsoft
3 40 (26.85%) Cisco
4 33 (22.15%) Veeam
5 29 (19.46%) Dell
6 25 (16.78%) HP
7 21 (14.09%) Palo Alto
8 20 (13.42%) Oracle
9 17 (11.41%) EMC
9 17 (11.41%) Symantec
10 16 (10.74%) Citrix
11 15 (10.07%) Juniper
12 14 (9.40%) 3PAR
12 14 (9.40%) Extreme Networks
13 11 (7.38%) Atlassian
13 11 (7.38%) Red Hat
14 9 (6.04%) IBM
15 6 (4.03%) CheckPoint
15 6 (4.03%) Infoblox
16 5 (3.36%) SolarWinds