VMware ESXi Contracts in England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring VMware ESXi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 411 496
Rank change year-on-year +5 +85 -127
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 144 235 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 3.47% 3.90% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 164 223
10th Percentile £325 £378 £275
25th Percentile £429 £450 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £550
90th Percentile £625 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £65.18 £47.95 £29.42
25th Percentile £67.31 £52.13 £43.50
Median hourly rate £72.75 £70.50 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +45.12% -6.58%
75th Percentile £76.31 £78.00 £55.83
90th Percentile £77.33 £78.40 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £70.50 £57.78
% change year-on-year +3.19% +22.02% +13.29%

All System Software Skills
England

VMware ESXi falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,150 6,031 9,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.06% 12.82% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 4,317 6,885
10th Percentile £205 £200 £190
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 208 252
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.01
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £14.94
Median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.38 £29.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £76.95 £56.61
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South West +18 55 £525 -4.55% 16
South East +7 39 £605 +27.37% 22
Midlands +24 19 £550 +24.94% 8
West Midlands +27 18 £550 +29.41% 8
North of England +21 14 £340 -19.05% 12
London -9 12 £500 -8.84% 21
North West +16 8 £413 -5.71% 3
East of England +6 8 £525 +10.53% 6
Yorkshire +18 5 £330 - 9
North East +8 1 £600 +93.55%
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (11.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.56%) Confluence
3 2 (1.39%) IIS
3 2 (1.39%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.69%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.61%) Azure
2 15 (10.42%) OCI
3 13 (9.03%) AWS
3 13 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.47%) IaaS
5 5 (3.47%) PaaS
6 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.08%) GCP
7 3 (2.08%) SaaS
8 2 (1.39%) GitHub
8 2 (1.39%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.39%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.69%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.69%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 55 (38.19%) DNS
2 49 (34.03%) DHCP
3 43 (29.86%) SAN
4 39 (27.08%) Firewall
5 32 (22.22%) VSAN
6 17 (11.81%) TCP/IP
7 16 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
8 14 (9.72%) LAN
8 14 (9.72%) WAN
9 6 (4.17%) FTP
9 6 (4.17%) VPN
10 5 (3.47%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (3.47%) NAS
10 5 (3.47%) VLAN
10 5 (3.47%) Wireless
11 4 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (2.08%) NetScaler
12 3 (2.08%) SNA
13 2 (1.39%) Cisco ISE
14 1 (0.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.78%) MySQL
2 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 10 (6.94%) JIRA
2 5 (3.47%) Git
3 4 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.39%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.39%) MSI
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 48 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.25%) Finance
4 4 (2.78%) Financial Institution
4 4 (2.78%) Legal
4 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.39%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.39%) Banking
5 2 (1.39%) Electronics
5 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (0.69%) Advertising
6 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (30.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (27.78%) VMware Engineer
3 18 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (6.25%) Senior
4 9 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 8 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Support Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Unix Engineer
6 7 (4.86%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) SAN Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (3.47%) Administrator
8 5 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (3.47%) Server Administrator
8 5 (3.47%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (3.47%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.78%) Flash
1 4 (2.78%) REST
2 3 (2.08%) YAML
3 2 (1.39%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.39%) LDAP
3 2 (1.39%) Web Services
4 1 (0.69%) JSON
4 1 (0.69%) Middleware
4 1 (0.69%) OAuth
4 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.69%) OpenID
4 1 (0.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (31.94%) Data Centre
2 38 (26.39%) PKI
3 11 (7.64%) Clustering
4 8 (5.56%) Replication
5 4 (2.78%) Fat Client
5 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.78%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) CMDB
8 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 85 (59.03%) Windows
2 80 (55.56%) Linux
3 68 (47.22%) Windows Server
4 35 (24.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (15.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (15.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (13.19%) Windows 10
7 16 (11.11%) Unix
8 14 (9.72%) Windows XP
9 13 (9.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (5.56%) Solaris
10 8 (5.56%) Ubuntu
11 4 (2.78%) CentOS
12 3 (2.08%) Windows 7
12 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
13 2 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 29 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (19.44%) ITIL
5 21 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (13.19%) Server Management
7 18 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
7 18 (12.50%) Project Management
8 16 (11.11%) Change Management
8 16 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
8 16 (11.11%) Storage Management
9 15 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (9.72%) Break/Fix
10 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (8.33%) Validation
12 11 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (6.94%) Computer Science
13 10 (6.94%) High Availability
14 9 (6.25%) Load Balancing
15 8 (5.56%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.11%) PowerShell
2 15 (10.42%) Python
3 9 (6.25%) Bash
4 8 (5.56%) Java
5 7 (4.86%) C#
6 5 (3.47%) SQL
7 4 (2.78%) C
8 1 (0.69%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (63.89%) Security Cleared
2 64 (44.44%) DV Cleared
3 42 (29.17%) SC Cleared
4 29 (20.14%) Degree
5 21 (14.58%) CCNA
5 21 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (9.72%) CCNP
7 11 (7.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.08%) MCSE
12 2 (1.39%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.69%) MCSA
13 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.86%) NIST
2 2 (1.39%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (59.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 59 (40.97%) VMware NSX
3 58 (40.28%) Active Directory
4 49 (34.03%) vSphere
5 27 (18.75%) Hyper-V
6 12 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (6.25%) VMFS
8 7 (4.86%) Firmware
9 5 (3.47%) VMware Server
10 4 (2.78%) KVM
10 4 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (2.08%) XenApp
11 3 (2.08%) XenDesktop
12 2 (1.39%) Docker
12 2 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.39%) QEMU
12 2 (1.39%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.69%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (47.92%) vCenter Server
2 40 (27.78%) SCCM
3 25 (17.36%) WSUS
4 24 (16.67%) Ansible
5 21 (14.58%) SCOM
6 16 (11.11%) Kubernetes
7 14 (9.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (9.72%) NetBackup
8 12 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (7.64%) Nessus
10 10 (6.94%) Terraform
11 7 (4.86%) Rancher
11 7 (4.86%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 4 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (2.78%) ZABBIX
13 3 (2.08%) vRealize
13 3 (2.08%) VxRail
14 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
15 1 (0.69%) SELinux
15 1 (0.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 138 (95.83%) VMware
2 58 (40.28%) Microsoft
3 34 (23.61%) Cisco
4 33 (22.92%) Veeam
5 26 (18.06%) Dell
5 26 (18.06%) HP
6 21 (14.58%) Palo Alto
7 19 (13.19%) Oracle
8 16 (11.11%) EMC
8 16 (11.11%) Symantec
9 14 (9.72%) 3PAR
9 14 (9.72%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (9.72%) Juniper
10 12 (8.33%) Red Hat
11 11 (7.64%) Atlassian
12 10 (6.94%) Citrix
13 8 (5.56%) IBM
14 6 (4.17%) CheckPoint
15 5 (3.47%) Qualys
16 4 (2.78%) Avaya