VMware ESXi Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 318 334 483
Rank change year-on-year +16 +149 -149
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 31 126 144
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.16% 4.24% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 101 97
10th Percentile £308 £413 £275
25th Percentile £366 £453 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +6.84% +4.00%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £654 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £61.25 £46.04
25th Percentile - £63.25 £52.19
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.70% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £78.00 £65.25
90th Percentile - £80.40 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £66.50 £57.78
% change year-on-year +9.40% +15.10% +14.41%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,434 2,974 5,378
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.79% 12.27% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 2,112 4,007
10th Percentile £290 £295 £319
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £684 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 109 86
10th Percentile - £17.72 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £17.95
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +154.90% +4.08%
75th Percentile £66.25 £70.00 £56.56
90th Percentile £85.23 £75.90 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.92 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.97% +189.03% -5.00%

VMware ESXi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware ESXi trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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 a work from home option citing VMware ESXi.

VMware ESXi hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.90%) Confluence
3 2 (6.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.45%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Mimecast
5 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) Firewall
2 7 (22.58%) DNS
3 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
4 5 (16.13%) DHCP
4 5 (16.13%) SAN
5 4 (12.90%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (9.68%) LAN
6 3 (9.68%) WAN
7 2 (6.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (6.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (6.45%) VLAN
7 2 (6.45%) VPN
7 2 (6.45%) Wireless
8 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (3.23%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
8 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
2 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
2 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Integration Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Senior
1 4 (12.90%) Senior Integration Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Senior Test Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Test and Integration Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Test Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Administrator
2 3 (9.68%) Consultant
2 3 (9.68%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) FMCG
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Replication
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Windows
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server
3 13 (41.94%) Linux
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (9.68%) Apple iOS
5 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (6.45%) Unix
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.23%) Android
7 1 (3.23%) CentOS
7 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.23%) Solaris
7 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
2 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
2 4 (12.90%) DevOps
2 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (12.90%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (9.68%) Change Control
3 3 (9.68%) Patch Management
3 3 (9.68%) Task Automation
4 2 (6.45%) Capacity Management
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science
4 2 (6.45%) Customer Service
4 2 (6.45%) Load Balancing
4 2 (6.45%) Migration
4 2 (6.45%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (6.45%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (6.45%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (6.45%) Server Patching
4 2 (6.45%) Service Migration
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) PowerShell
2 9 (29.03%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) Bash
4 4 (12.90%) C
5 2 (6.45%) ActionScript
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) Degree
5 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (48.39%) vSphere
3 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
3 11 (35.48%) VMware NSX
4 3 (9.68%) VMFS
5 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.45%) KVM
5 2 (6.45%) QEMU
6 1 (3.23%) vCloud
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.23%) VMware Server
6 1 (3.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Ansible
2 7 (22.58%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) vCenter Server
3 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.90%) Nessus
5 3 (9.68%) SCCM
6 2 (6.45%) WSUS
7 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (3.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (80.65%) VMware
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Atlassian
4 4 (12.90%) Citrix
4 4 (12.90%) CyberArk
5 3 (9.68%) Qualys
6 2 (6.45%) Apple
6 2 (6.45%) Avaya
6 2 (6.45%) Cisco
6 2 (6.45%) F5
6 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.23%) Genesys
7 1 (3.23%) HP
7 1 (3.23%) Juniper
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (3.23%) Symantec
7 1 (3.23%) Veritas