VMware ESXi Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 111 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 25 36 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.94% 1.23% 0.87%
As % of the System Software category 8.06% 10.53% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 19
10th Percentile £355 £342 £365
25th Percentile £530 £410 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £455 £455
Median % change year-on-year +32.84% +0.10% +17.42%
75th Percentile £608 £530 £509
90th Percentile - £700 £526
South East median daily rate £605 £481 £425
% change year-on-year +25.71% +13.24% -

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 310 342 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.65% 11.70% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 241 385
10th Percentile £205 £200 £165
25th Percentile £409 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £485
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% +0.52% +14.12%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 17
10th Percentile £35.58 £26.50 £11.75
25th Percentile £48.13 £48.40 £13.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £54.56 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +241.00% -36.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £20.00
90th Percentile - £79.10 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £53.53 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.51% +167.65% -20.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire +2 23 £605 +16.35% 6
Oxfordshire +5 2 £465 -7.00%
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) OCI
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.00%) Google Workspace
3 2 (8.00%) IaaS
3 2 (8.00%) PaaS
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (88.00%) DNS
2 20 (80.00%) DHCP
3 19 (76.00%) SAN
4 17 (68.00%) Firewall
5 4 (16.00%) NAS
6 2 (8.00%) LAN
6 2 (8.00%) VPN
6 2 (8.00%) WAN
6 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (16.00%) MySQL
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MSI
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Server Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Wintel Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.00%) Fat Client
2 4 (16.00%) PKI
2 4 (16.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (96.00%) Windows
2 21 (84.00%) Windows Server
3 19 (76.00%) Linux
3 19 (76.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 15 (60.00%) Windows 10
4 15 (60.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (48.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (48.00%) Windows XP
6 4 (16.00%) Ubuntu
7 2 (8.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (72.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (68.00%) Server Management
4 15 (60.00%) Break/Fix
4 15 (60.00%) Converged Infrastructure
4 15 (60.00%) ITIL
4 15 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 15 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 15 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (60.00%) Project Management
4 15 (60.00%) Storage Management
5 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.00%) Application Packaging
6 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
6 3 (12.00%) Software Deployment
7 2 (8.00%) High Availability
7 2 (8.00%) Information Security
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (4.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (84.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (84.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (60.00%) CCNA
2 15 (60.00%) CCNP
2 15 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (60.00%) Degree
2 15 (60.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 23 (92.00%) Active Directory
1 23 (92.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.00%) vSphere
4 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (12.00%) XenApp
4 3 (12.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) SCCM
1 20 (80.00%) vCenter Server
2 19 (76.00%) WSUS
3 15 (60.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 15 (60.00%) NetBackup
3 15 (60.00%) SCOM
4 4 (16.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (16.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Nessus
4 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (16.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (84.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (76.00%) Oracle
4 17 (68.00%) Cisco
5 16 (64.00%) Veeam
6 15 (60.00%) 3PAR
6 15 (60.00%) Dell
6 15 (60.00%) EMC
6 15 (60.00%) Extreme Networks
6 15 (60.00%) HP
6 15 (60.00%) Juniper
6 15 (60.00%) Palo Alto
6 15 (60.00%) Symantec
7 4 (16.00%) Citrix
7 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (8.00%) Google
8 2 (8.00%) Meraki