VMware ESXi Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 510 482
Rank change year-on-year +18 -28 -137
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 281 256 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 3.18% 2.77% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 226 214 281
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £59,000 £54,688 £52,500
90th Percentile £66,563 £61,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,875 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.00% +5.56%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,828 9,252 12,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.45% 15.38% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,081 5,850 8,320
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,200 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £83,300
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England +58 68 £50,000 +6.38% 9
South West +21 64 £50,000 +25.00% 13
South East -24 59 £48,500 +14.12% 15
West Midlands +43 50 £36,500 -11.52% 10
Midlands +6 50 £36,500 -27.00% 11
Yorkshire +112 47 £47,500 +26.67% 4
East of England -8 28 £32,500 -35.00% 6
North West -10 17 £60,000 +26.98% 3
Scotland -61 7 £65,000 +15.04% 3
Wales - 4 £40,000 -
North East - 4 £29,500 - 2
Northern Ireland +27 2 £34,628 -27.10%
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 45 (16.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (9.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.78%) IIS
4 2 (0.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 142 (50.53%) Azure
2 130 (46.26%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (23.84%) Entra ID
4 29 (10.32%) OneDrive
5 26 (9.25%) AWS
6 15 (5.34%) IaaS
7 13 (4.63%) PaaS
8 12 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.27%) OCI
9 8 (2.85%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.14%) GCP
10 6 (2.14%) WhatsApp
11 5 (1.78%) Nutanix
12 3 (1.07%) SaaS
13 2 (0.71%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (0.71%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.71%) OpenDNS
14 1 (0.36%) Azure Stack
14 1 (0.36%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 101 (35.94%) Firewall
2 68 (24.20%) DNS
3 55 (19.57%) DHCP
3 55 (19.57%) SAN
4 43 (15.30%) VPN
5 37 (13.17%) NAS
6 32 (11.39%) LAN
7 26 (9.25%) VSAN
8 25 (8.90%) TCP/IP
9 24 (8.54%) WAN
10 16 (5.69%) iSCSI
10 16 (5.69%) PBX
10 16 (5.69%) VoIP
10 16 (5.69%) WLAN
11 15 (5.34%) Internet
12 14 (4.98%) Remote Desktop
12 14 (4.98%) Wireless
13 13 (4.63%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (4.27%) Fibre Channel
15 11 (3.91%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.27%) MySQL
3 8 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.78%) GitLab
2 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) JIRA
General
1 65 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 17 (6.05%) Public Sector
2 17 (6.05%) Telecoms
3 16 (5.69%) Aerospace
4 15 (5.34%) Law
5 14 (4.98%) Finance
6 12 (4.27%) Retail
7 9 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.14%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.78%) Games
11 3 (1.07%) Legal
11 3 (1.07%) Local Government
11 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.71%) Electronics
12 2 (0.71%) Military
13 1 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 108 (38.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 64 (22.78%) Support Engineer
3 45 (16.01%) IT Engineer
4 37 (13.17%) Senior
5 36 (12.81%) IT Support
6 29 (10.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 28 (9.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 24 (8.54%) Administrator
8 24 (8.54%) Infrastructure Support
9 22 (7.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (7.47%) 2nd Line Support
10 21 (7.47%) 3rd Line Support
11 20 (7.12%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 20 (7.12%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 19 (6.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 19 (6.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (6.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 17 (6.05%) Storage Engineer
14 17 (6.05%) VMWare Administrator
14 17 (6.05%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.34%) JSON
2 10 (3.56%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.56%) YAML
3 4 (1.42%) .NET
3 4 (1.42%) HTML
3 4 (1.42%) Laravel
3 4 (1.42%) Node.js
3 4 (1.42%) REST
3 4 (1.42%) RESTful
3 4 (1.42%) Vue
3 4 (1.42%) XML
4 2 (0.71%) ADO
4 2 (0.71%) LAMP
4 2 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.71%) V-Ray
5 1 (0.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.15%) Data Centre
2 41 (14.59%) Replication
3 36 (12.81%) Public Cloud
4 29 (10.32%) PKI
5 18 (6.41%) Clustering
6 17 (6.05%) EMC VNX
7 14 (4.98%) Driving Licence
8 10 (3.56%) Private Cloud
8 10 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.85%) EFT
9 8 (2.85%) Operational Technology
10 7 (2.49%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.14%) iPad
12 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.42%) Management Information System
14 3 (1.07%) Cloud Native
14 3 (1.07%) NHS
14 3 (1.07%) Security Posture
15 2 (0.71%) Smartcard
15 2 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 210 (74.73%) Windows
2 167 (59.43%) Windows Server
3 93 (33.10%) Linux
4 55 (19.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 53 (18.86%) Windows 10
6 36 (12.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 34 (12.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (6.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (4.98%) CentOS
10 12 (4.27%) Windows XP
11 8 (2.85%) Mac OS
12 7 (2.49%) Ubuntu
13 6 (2.14%) Unix
14 4 (1.42%) Rocky
14 4 (1.42%) VMS
15 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (40.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (15.30%) ITIL
4 41 (14.59%) Mentoring
5 29 (10.32%) Customer Service
6 27 (9.61%) Migration
7 26 (9.25%) Project Management
8 24 (8.54%) Agile
8 24 (8.54%) DevOps
8 24 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (7.47%) Problem Management
9 21 (7.47%) Server Management
10 19 (6.76%) High Availability
10 19 (6.76%) Performance Monitoring
10 19 (6.76%) Storage Management
11 17 (6.05%) CI/CD
11 17 (6.05%) Preventative Maintenance
12 15 (5.34%) Disaster Recovery
12 15 (5.34%) Service Management
13 14 (4.98%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (22.42%) PowerShell
2 16 (5.69%) SQL
3 12 (4.27%) Python
4 11 (3.91%) ActionScript
5 10 (3.56%) VB
6 8 (2.85%) Java
7 6 (2.14%) C#
8 5 (1.78%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.42%) Bash
9 4 (1.42%) Lua
9 4 (1.42%) Perl
9 4 (1.42%) PHP
9 4 (1.42%) Ruby
9 4 (1.42%) Tcl
9 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.71%) C++
11 1 (0.36%) C
11 1 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 73 (25.98%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.30%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.95%) Degree
4 31 (11.03%) DV Cleared
5 27 (9.61%) CCNA
5 27 (9.61%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (6.41%) CCNP
8 14 (4.98%) MCSE
9 12 (4.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (2.85%) A+ Certification
11 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.78%) HND
12 5 (1.78%) RHCE
12 5 (1.78%) RHCSA
13 4 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.42%) MCP
14 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.07%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.63%) SLA
2 6 (2.14%) GDPR
2 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.71%) NCSC
4 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 178 (63.35%) Active Directory
2 175 (62.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (29.18%) Hyper-V
4 55 (19.57%) vSphere
5 18 (6.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (6.05%) Docker
7 14 (4.98%) VMware NSX
8 11 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.91%) XenApp
9 10 (3.56%) OpenSSH
10 8 (2.85%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (2.85%) XenDesktop
11 7 (2.49%) VMware Server
12 6 (2.14%) Firmware
13 2 (0.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.71%) pfSense
13 2 (0.71%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 107 (38.08%) vCenter Server
2 60 (21.35%) SCCM
3 47 (16.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (10.32%) EMC NetWorker
5 23 (8.19%) WSUS
6 18 (6.41%) Ansible
7 17 (6.05%) Nagios
8 15 (5.34%) SCOM
9 14 (4.98%) Terraform
10 13 (4.63%) Failover Clustering
11 12 (4.27%) Kubernetes
11 12 (4.27%) NetBackup
12 10 (3.56%) IBM BigFix
12 10 (3.56%) PowerCLI
12 10 (3.56%) ZABBIX
13 9 (3.20%) Puppet
14 6 (2.14%) Backup Exec
15 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 5 (1.78%) SCDPM
15 5 (1.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 264 (93.95%) VMware
2 126 (44.84%) Microsoft
3 89 (31.67%) Veeam
4 66 (23.49%) Cisco
5 58 (20.64%) Citrix
6 29 (10.32%) EMC
7 26 (9.25%) SolarWinds
8 21 (7.47%) Dell
8 21 (7.47%) Extreme Networks
8 21 (7.47%) HP
9 17 (6.05%) Aruba
9 17 (6.05%) Juniper
10 16 (5.69%) Oracle
11 13 (4.63%) Meraki
11 13 (4.63%) NetApp
11 13 (4.63%) Red Hat
12 12 (4.27%) 3PAR
12 12 (4.27%) Palo Alto
12 12 (4.27%) Symantec
13 10 (3.56%) IBM