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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 419 512
Rank change year-on-year -30 +93 -142
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 150 295 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the System Software category 3.17% 4.05% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 215 266
10th Percentile £325 £400 £275
25th Percentile £450 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £599 £611 £550
90th Percentile £625 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £494 £425
% change year-on-year +6.33% +16.18% -2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £65.18 £50.04 £36.46
25th Percentile £67.31 £54.41 £47.31
Median hourly rate £72.75 £66.50 £57.78
Median % change year-on-year +9.40% +15.10% +13.29%
75th Percentile £76.31 £77.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.33 £78.60 £70.95
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 4,725 7,280 11,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 13.07% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 5,128 8,363
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £356 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -0.52% +6.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 250 288
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.19 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £54.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.79% +173.48% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £45.06
90th Percentile £79.20 £75.53 £61.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.12 £17.88
% change year-on-year -42.85% +169.14% -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 8 June 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 8 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
England +6 138 £525 - 79
UK excluding London +30 131 £525 +6.33% 61
South West +25 51 £525 -4.55% 16
South East -2 39 £605 +27.37% 20
Work from Home +18 28 £550 +7.84% 17
Midlands +25 19 £550 +24.94% 8
West Midlands +18 18 £550 +29.41% 8
North of England +28 13 £340 -19.05% 11
London -13 12 £525 -4.28% 18
North West +18 8 £413 -5.71% 3
East of England +6 7 £525 +10.53% 7
Scotland +31 6 £600 +14.83% 1
Yorkshire +19 4 £330 - 8
North East +11 1 £600 +93.55%

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 20 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.33%) Confluence
3 2 (1.33%) IIS
3 2 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.67%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 40 (26.67%) Azure
2 15 (10.00%) AWS
2 15 (10.00%) OCI
3 13 (8.67%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.00%) IaaS
4 6 (4.00%) PaaS
5 5 (3.33%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.67%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.00%) GCP
7 3 (2.00%) GitHub
7 3 (2.00%) SaaS
8 2 (1.33%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.33%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.33%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (40.00%) DNS
2 53 (35.33%) DHCP
3 45 (30.00%) SAN
4 44 (29.33%) Firewall
5 31 (20.67%) VSAN
6 17 (11.33%) Remote Desktop
6 17 (11.33%) TCP/IP
7 15 (10.00%) LAN
7 15 (10.00%) WAN
8 10 (6.67%) VPN
9 6 (4.00%) FTP
10 5 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (3.33%) NAS
10 5 (3.33%) VLAN
10 5 (3.33%) Wireless
11 4 (2.67%) SMTP
11 4 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (2.00%) NetScaler
12 3 (2.00%) SNA
13 2 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.67%) MySQL
3 4 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (7.33%) JIRA
2 5 (3.33%) Git
3 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.33%) MSI
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 53 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.33%) Finance
5 4 (2.67%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.67%) Legal
5 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.33%) Banking
6 2 (1.33%) Electronics
6 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (0.67%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (26.00%) VMware Engineer
3 19 (12.67%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (6.00%) Network Engineer
4 9 (6.00%) Server Engineer
5 8 (5.33%) Senior
6 7 (4.67%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) Support Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) SAN Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Unix Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
8 5 (3.33%) Administrator
8 5 (3.33%) Server Administrator
8 5 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) LDAP
2 4 (2.67%) Flash
2 4 (2.67%) REST
3 3 (2.00%) YAML
4 2 (1.33%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.33%) JSON
4 2 (1.33%) Web Services
5 1 (0.67%) OAuth
5 1 (0.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.67%) OpenID
5 1 (0.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 38 (25.33%) PKI
3 14 (9.33%) Clustering
4 9 (6.00%) Replication
5 5 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.67%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.67%) Thin Client
7 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) CMDB
9 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.67%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 91 (60.67%) Windows
2 78 (52.00%) Linux
3 74 (49.33%) Windows Server
4 37 (24.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (14.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 21 (14.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (13.33%) Windows 10
8 15 (10.00%) Unix
9 14 (9.33%) Windows XP
10 13 (8.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (6.00%) Ubuntu
12 7 (4.67%) Solaris
13 4 (2.67%) CentOS
13 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (2.00%) Apple iOS
14 3 (2.00%) Windows 7
14 3 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (1.33%) VMS
16 1 (0.67%) Android
16 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (36.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (21.33%) Converged Infrastructure
3 31 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (18.00%) ITIL
5 20 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (13.33%) Server Management
6 18 (12.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 18 (12.00%) Project Management
7 16 (10.67%) Performance Monitoring
7 16 (10.67%) Storage Management
8 15 (10.00%) Change Management
8 15 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (9.33%) Break/Fix
9 14 (9.33%) High Availability
10 12 (8.00%) Validation
11 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (6.67%) Computer Science
13 9 (6.00%) CI/CD
14 8 (5.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.67%) PowerShell
2 15 (10.00%) Python
3 9 (6.00%) Bash
3 9 (6.00%) Java
4 7 (4.67%) C#
5 4 (2.67%) C
5 4 (2.67%) SQL
6 2 (1.33%) ActionScript
6 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 94 (62.67%) Security Cleared
2 66 (44.00%) DV Cleared
3 46 (30.67%) SC Cleared
4 30 (20.00%) Degree
5 20 (13.33%) CCNA
5 20 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (9.33%) CCNP
7 12 (8.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.67%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.00%) MCSE
12 2 (1.33%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) NIST
2 2 (1.33%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 63 (42.00%) Active Directory
3 59 (39.33%) VMware NSX
4 49 (32.67%) vSphere
5 33 (22.00%) Hyper-V
6 13 (8.67%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (6.00%) VMFS
8 7 (4.67%) Firmware
9 5 (3.33%) Docker
9 5 (3.33%) KVM
9 5 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (3.33%) VMware Server
10 4 (2.67%) BitLocker
10 4 (2.67%) Terminal Services
10 4 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (2.00%) VMware Workstation
11 3 (2.00%) XenApp
11 3 (2.00%) XenDesktop
12 2 (1.33%) QEMU
13 1 (0.67%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 80 (53.33%) vCenter Server
2 39 (26.00%) SCCM
3 28 (18.67%) Ansible
4 26 (17.33%) WSUS
5 20 (13.33%) SCOM
6 19 (12.67%) Kubernetes
7 14 (9.33%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (9.33%) NetBackup
8 13 (8.67%) Terraform
9 11 (7.33%) Nessus
9 11 (7.33%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (4.00%) Rancher
10 6 (4.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 6 (4.00%) vMotion
10 6 (4.00%) vRealize
11 4 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.67%) ZABBIX
12 3 (2.00%) VxRail
13 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (95.33%) VMware
2 62 (41.33%) Microsoft
3 38 (25.33%) Cisco
4 33 (22.00%) Veeam
5 28 (18.67%) Dell
6 26 (17.33%) HP
7 21 (14.00%) Palo Alto
8 20 (13.33%) Oracle
9 16 (10.67%) EMC
9 16 (10.67%) Symantec
10 15 (10.00%) Juniper
11 14 (9.33%) 3PAR
11 14 (9.33%) Citrix
11 14 (9.33%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (8.00%) Red Hat
13 11 (7.33%) Atlassian
14 9 (6.00%) IBM
15 6 (4.00%) CheckPoint
16 5 (3.33%) Qualys
17 4 (2.67%) SolarWinds