VMware ESXi Contracts in the North of England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 199 225
Rank change year-on-year +33 +26 -90
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 14 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.18% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 2.50% 1.27% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 16
10th Percentile £314 £315 £388
25th Percentile £320 £344 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £500 £466 £460
90th Percentile £590 £503 £519
England median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £35.43 -
25th Percentile - £41.69 £20.04
Median hourly rate - £52.13 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - +144.17% -
75th Percentile - - £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £66.50 £48.58
% change year-on-year +9.40% +36.89% -6.58%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 561 790 1,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.57% 14.48% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 573 782
10th Percentile £178 £175 £158
25th Percentile £288 £288 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £578 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 46
10th Percentile - £14.00 £13.87
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +20.00% +1.45%
75th Percentile £18.38 £47.00 £19.88
90th Percentile £44.20 £63.88 £22.71
England median hourly rate £22.23 £52.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year -57.37% +174.37% +2.65%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in the North of England

VMware ESXi
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 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
North West +14 8 £413 -5.71% 3
Yorkshire +15 5 £330 - 8
North East +12 1 £600 +93.55%
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) GCP
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) SAN
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
3 4 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
4 2 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (7.14%) SMTP
5 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
5 1 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) SAN Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) SAN Storage Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Centre Technician
5 1 (7.14%) Data Technician
5 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Technician
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) VMS
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (14.29%) Runbook
4 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Service Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (21.43%) CCNA
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (14.29%) A+ Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) MCSE
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Master
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Firmware
2 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (14.29%) KVM
4 2 (14.29%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (7.14%) Terminal Services
5 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
5 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) vMotion
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Cisco
3 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
4 1 (7.14%) Symantec