VMware ESXi Contracts in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 93 120 165
Rank change year-on-year +27 +45 -42
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 18 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 0.41% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 9.09% 3.08% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 11
10th Percentile £300 £389 £340
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +13.33% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £557 £388
90th Percentile £627 £576 -
England median daily rate £525 £529 £450
% change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 198 292 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.70% 13.19% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 185 288
10th Percentile £183 £160 £150
25th Percentile £261 £295 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £412
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +9.36% +17.57%
75th Percentile £600 £554 £538
90th Percentile £675 £713 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 23
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.70 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.65 £16.23 £13.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +12.12% +13.79%
75th Percentile £19.95 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.23 - £23.10
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the West Midlands

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Worcestershire - 5 £550 -
Shropshire - 5 £300 -
Warwickshire - 4 £627 - 2
Coventry - 3 £400 -
Birmingham +8 1 £350 -12.50%
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) DHCP
1 14 (77.78%) DNS
2 9 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (27.78%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (27.78%) SAN
3 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
4 4 (22.22%) LAN
4 4 (22.22%) WAN
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Administrator
2 5 (27.78%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Server Administrator
2 5 (27.78%) VMWare Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (83.33%) Windows Server
3 9 (50.00%) Linux
3 9 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (27.78%) Unix
5 4 (22.22%) CentOS
5 4 (22.22%) Ubuntu
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Information Management
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (27.78%) Load Balancing
2 5 (27.78%) Security Hardening
2 5 (27.78%) Security Monitoring
2 5 (27.78%) SIEM
2 5 (27.78%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Environments
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
3 4 (22.22%) Change Control
3 4 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 4 (22.22%) Server Patching
3 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) C#
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (55.56%) VMware NSX
3 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (27.78%) VMware Server
4 5 (27.78%) vSphere
5 4 (22.22%) VMFS
6 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) vCenter Server
2 9 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Veeam