VMware ESXi Jobs in the South West

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for VMware ESXi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 246 249
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 -59
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 62 22 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.68% 0.31% 0.64%
As % of the System Software category 5.12% 1.87% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 47 19 30
10th Percentile £33,625 £25,500 £31,350
25th Percentile £41,500 £31,500 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +23.29%
75th Percentile £53,375 £54,375 £51,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £75,543 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All System Software Skills
South West

VMware ESXi is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,211 1,177 1,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.23% 16.80% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 988 732 874
10th Percentile £27,451 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,688 £35,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,125 £81,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South West.

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +25 39 £51,000 +23.64% 8
Gloucestershire -13 16 £45,000 +9.76% 4
Cornwall - 6 £45,000 -
Dorset -17 1 £35,000 -8.50%
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (27.42%) Azure
3 7 (11.29%) AWS
4 6 (9.68%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.06%) Nutanix
6 3 (4.84%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.23%) IaaS
7 2 (3.23%) PaaS
7 2 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (33.87%) Firewall
2 15 (24.19%) VSAN
3 9 (14.52%) iSCSI
4 8 (12.90%) DHCP
4 8 (12.90%) DNS
4 8 (12.90%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
6 5 (8.06%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (8.06%) VXLAN
6 5 (8.06%) WLAN
7 4 (6.45%) VPN
7 4 (6.45%) Wireless
8 3 (4.84%) SAN
9 2 (3.23%) LAN
9 2 (3.23%) NetScaler
9 2 (3.23%) WAN
10 1 (1.61%) NAS
10 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (1.61%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) MySQL
1 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (27.42%) Public Sector
2 12 (19.35%) Aerospace
3 10 (16.13%) Retail
4 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (46.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Backup Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Storage and Backup Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Storage Engineer
3 13 (20.97%) Administrator
3 13 (20.97%) Systems Administrator
4 10 (16.13%) Senior
5 8 (12.90%) Network Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) VMWare Administrator
6 6 (9.68%) Project Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.06%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (8.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (8.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) JSON
1 4 (6.45%) RESTful
1 4 (6.45%) XML
2 1 (1.61%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Data Centre
2 14 (22.58%) EMC VNX
3 10 (16.13%) Replication
4 8 (12.90%) PKI
5 7 (11.29%) Public Cloud
6 6 (9.68%) Driving Licence
7 5 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
8 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (62.90%) Linux
1 39 (62.90%) Windows
2 23 (37.10%) Windows Server
3 11 (17.74%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (14.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (9.68%) CentOS
7 2 (3.23%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.23%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.61%) Rocky
8 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (25.81%) Customer Service
3 15 (24.19%) Mentoring
4 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.13%) Agile
5 10 (16.13%) Business Continuity
5 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (16.13%) Load Balancing
6 9 (14.52%) Service Management
7 8 (12.90%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (12.90%) DevOps
7 8 (12.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 7 (11.29%) ITSM
9 5 (8.06%) High Availability
9 5 (8.06%) Line Management
9 5 (8.06%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (8.06%) Performance Monitoring
9 5 (8.06%) Security Patching
9 5 (8.06%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) Python
2 5 (8.06%) C#
2 5 (8.06%) Java
2 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.45%) Lua
3 4 (6.45%) Perl
3 4 (6.45%) Ruby
3 4 (6.45%) Tcl
4 2 (3.23%) SQL
5 1 (1.61%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (62.90%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) CCNA
4 5 (8.06%) CCNP
4 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (8.06%) RHCE
4 5 (8.06%) RHCSA
5 3 (4.84%) HND
5 3 (4.84%) MCSE
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.23%) CISSP
6 2 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 44 (70.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (30.65%) Active Directory
3 11 (17.74%) Hyper-V
3 11 (17.74%) vSphere
4 8 (12.90%) VMware NSX
5 6 (9.68%) Docker
6 2 (3.23%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.61%) Firmware
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (41.94%) vCenter Server
2 15 (24.19%) Ansible
2 15 (24.19%) Nagios
3 14 (22.58%) EMC NetWorker
4 11 (17.74%) SCCM
5 9 (14.52%) Puppet
6 8 (12.90%) ZABBIX
7 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
8 5 (8.06%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (6.45%) Progress Chef
9 4 (6.45%) vRealize
10 3 (4.84%) FortiGate
10 3 (4.84%) WSUS
11 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (95.16%) VMware
2 18 (29.03%) Microsoft
3 16 (25.81%) Cisco
3 16 (25.81%) SolarWinds
3 16 (25.81%) Veeam
4 14 (22.58%) EMC
5 10 (16.13%) Red Hat
6 9 (14.52%) Brocade
7 8 (12.90%) NetApp
8 7 (11.29%) Aruba
8 7 (11.29%) HP
8 7 (11.29%) Meraki
9 4 (6.45%) Dell
9 4 (6.45%) SaltStack
9 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
10 3 (4.84%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (4.84%) Juniper
11 2 (3.23%) Citrix
11 2 (3.23%) Meru Networks
11 2 (3.23%) Sophos