VMware ESXi Contracts in the Midlands

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 146 183
Rank change year-on-year +32 +37 -50
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 19 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.37% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 6.57% 2.56% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 23
10th Percentile £300 £396 £319
25th Percentile £350 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £375
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% +17.39% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £444
90th Percentile £627 £576 £471
England median daily rate £525 £524 £450
% change year-on-year +0.29% +16.33% -

All System Software Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 289 468 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.35% 14.31% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 327 469
10th Percentile £156 £158 £130
25th Percentile £240 £250 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +18.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £500
90th Percentile £658 £696 £581
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 42
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.38 £11.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.06 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.25 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +14.93% +24.07%
75th Percentile £22.80 £40.25 £20.45
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.73
England median hourly rate £22.23 £52.13 £18.58
% change year-on-year -57.37% +180.65% -2.24%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
West Midlands +24 18 £550 +29.41% 10
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) DHCP
1 15 (78.95%) DNS
2 9 (47.37%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (26.32%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (26.32%) LAN
3 5 (26.32%) SAN
3 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
3 5 (26.32%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Administrator
2 5 (26.32%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Server Administrator
2 5 (26.32%) VMWare Administrator
3 1 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server
3 9 (47.37%) Linux
3 9 (47.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (26.32%) Unix
5 4 (21.05%) CentOS
5 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
5 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (26.32%) Information Management
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Load Balancing
3 5 (26.32%) Security Hardening
3 5 (26.32%) Security Monitoring
3 5 (26.32%) SIEM
3 5 (26.32%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Virtual Environments
3 5 (26.32%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
4 4 (21.05%) Change Control
4 4 (21.05%) Patch Management
4 4 (21.05%) Server Patching
4 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Validation
6 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) Java
3 4 (21.05%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 6 (31.58%) DV Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (57.89%) VMware NSX
3 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
4 5 (26.32%) VMware Server
4 5 (26.32%) vSphere
5 4 (21.05%) VMFS
6 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) vCenter Server
2 9 (47.37%) SCCM
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
3 5 (26.32%) Veeam
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) EMC