VMware ESXi Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 267 294 323
Rank change year-on-year +27 +29 -99
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 137 136 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.60% 0.62%
As % of the System Software category 5.39% 3.98% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 105 140
10th Percentile £321 £363 £260
25th Percentile £459 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +14.71% -2.30%
75th Percentile £596 £576 £481
90th Percentile £608 £695 £575
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £65.18 £39.60 £25.88
25th Percentile £67.31 - £34.66
Median hourly rate £72.75 £52.13 £52.56
Median % change year-on-year +39.55% -0.81% +10.64%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.75 £69.17
90th Percentile £77.33 £78.30 £77.17
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £70.50 £57.78
% change year-on-year +3.19% +22.02% +13.29%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,540 3,419 4,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.91% 15.07% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 2,407 3,261
10th Percentile £185 £181 £158
25th Percentile £313 £305 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +6.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £688 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 165 226
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £43.75 £17.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +144.72% -1.73%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £23.69
90th Percentile £78.80 £75.00 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North West +16 8 £413 -5.71% 3
East of England +6 8 £525 +10.53% 6
Scotland +41 6 £600 +14.83% 1
Yorkshire +18 5 £330 - 9
North East +8 1 £600 +93.55%
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (13.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.84%) Confluence
3 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.73%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.73%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) Azure
2 14 (10.22%) OCI
3 11 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.30%) AWS
5 5 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.65%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.19%) IaaS
7 3 (2.19%) PaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.46%) SaaS
9 1 (0.73%) GCP
9 1 (0.73%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 55 (40.15%) DNS
2 49 (35.77%) DHCP
3 42 (30.66%) SAN
4 39 (28.47%) Firewall
5 30 (21.90%) VSAN
6 16 (11.68%) TCP/IP
7 15 (10.95%) Remote Desktop
8 11 (8.03%) LAN
8 11 (8.03%) WAN
9 6 (4.38%) FTP
9 6 (4.38%) VPN
10 5 (3.65%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (3.65%) VLAN
11 4 (2.92%) NAS
11 4 (2.92%) SMTP
11 4 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.92%) Wireless
12 2 (1.46%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (1.46%) NetScaler
13 1 (0.73%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.92%) MySQL
3 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (7.30%) JIRA
2 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.46%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.46%) MSI
4 1 (0.73%) Git
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 46 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.84%) Finance
5 4 (2.92%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.92%) Legal
5 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.46%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.46%) Banking
6 2 (1.46%) Electronics
6 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.46%) Marketing
7 1 (0.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 44 (32.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (27.74%) VMware Engineer
3 18 (13.14%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (6.57%) Server Engineer
5 8 (5.84%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (5.84%) Network Engineer
6 7 (5.11%) Support Engineer
6 7 (5.11%) Unix Engineer
6 7 (5.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) SAN Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) SAN Storage Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) Senior
7 6 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Administrator
8 5 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.92%) Flash
1 4 (2.92%) LDAP
1 4 (2.92%) REST
2 2 (1.46%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.73%) JSON
3 1 (0.73%) Middleware
3 1 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (32.85%) Data Centre
2 39 (28.47%) PKI
3 14 (10.22%) Clustering
4 8 (5.84%) Replication
5 4 (2.92%) Fat Client
5 4 (2.92%) Thin Client
6 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.73%) CMDB
8 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 83 (60.58%) Windows
2 79 (57.66%) Linux
3 68 (49.64%) Windows Server
4 34 (24.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (16.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (15.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (13.87%) Windows 10
8 16 (11.68%) Unix
9 14 (10.22%) Windows XP
10 13 (9.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (5.84%) Solaris
11 8 (5.84%) Ubuntu
12 4 (2.92%) CentOS
12 4 (2.92%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (2.19%) Windows 7
13 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 36 (26.28%) Converged Infrastructure
3 28 (20.44%) ITIL
3 28 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (14.60%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (13.87%) Server Management
6 18 (13.14%) Proactive Monitoring
6 18 (13.14%) Project Management
7 16 (11.68%) Storage Management
8 15 (10.95%) Change Management
8 15 (10.95%) Performance Monitoring
8 15 (10.95%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (10.22%) Break/Fix
10 11 (8.03%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.03%) High Availability
11 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (7.30%) Validation
12 9 (6.57%) Computer Science
13 8 (5.84%) Change Control
13 8 (5.84%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 44 (32.12%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.57%) Bash
2 9 (6.57%) Python
3 8 (5.84%) Java
4 7 (5.11%) C#
5 5 (3.65%) SQL
6 4 (2.92%) C
7 1 (0.73%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (67.88%) Security Cleared
2 66 (48.18%) DV Cleared
3 41 (29.93%) SC Cleared
4 26 (18.98%) Degree
5 21 (15.33%) CCNA
5 21 (15.33%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (10.22%) CCNP
7 11 (8.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.92%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.19%) MCSE
11 2 (1.46%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.11%) NIST
2 2 (1.46%) QA
3 1 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.73%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (56.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (42.34%) Active Directory
3 57 (41.61%) VMware NSX
4 45 (32.85%) vSphere
5 31 (22.63%) Hyper-V
6 11 (8.03%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (5.84%) VMFS
8 7 (5.11%) Firmware
9 5 (3.65%) KVM
9 5 (3.65%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (3.65%) VMware Server
10 4 (2.92%) BitLocker
10 4 (2.92%) Terminal Services
11 3 (2.19%) Docker
11 3 (2.19%) XenApp
11 3 (2.19%) XenDesktop
12 2 (1.46%) QEMU
12 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 71 (51.82%) vCenter Server
2 39 (28.47%) SCCM
3 25 (18.25%) WSUS
4 22 (16.06%) Ansible
5 21 (15.33%) SCOM
6 14 (10.22%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (10.22%) Kubernetes
6 14 (10.22%) NetBackup
7 12 (8.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (6.57%) Nessus
9 7 (5.11%) Rancher
9 7 (5.11%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 6 (4.38%) vMotion
11 5 (3.65%) Terraform
12 4 (2.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (2.92%) ZABBIX
13 3 (2.19%) vRealize
13 3 (2.19%) VxRail
14 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Clustering
15 1 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 131 (95.62%) VMware
2 59 (43.07%) Microsoft
3 33 (24.09%) Cisco
3 33 (24.09%) Veeam
4 26 (18.98%) Dell
5 24 (17.52%) HP
6 21 (15.33%) Palo Alto
7 18 (13.14%) Oracle
8 16 (11.68%) EMC
8 16 (11.68%) Symantec
9 14 (10.22%) 3PAR
9 14 (10.22%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (10.22%) Juniper
10 12 (8.76%) Red Hat
11 11 (8.03%) Atlassian
12 8 (5.84%) Citrix
13 7 (5.11%) IBM
14 6 (4.38%) CheckPoint
15 5 (3.65%) Qualys
16 4 (2.92%) CyberArk