VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 608 702
Rank change year-on-year +163 +94 -220
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 524 401 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 4.28% 2.50% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 336 327 421
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,300 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,715 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.19% +4.44% +7.14%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,249 16,035 28,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 15.32% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 10,596 15,794
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,825
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +206 510 £52,500 +5.00% 83
UK excluding London +14 278 £48,500 +3.19% 64
London +251 242 £66,250 +15.22% 19
Work from Home +83 158 £54,000 +8.00% 26
North of England +47 68 £50,000 +6.38% 10
South East +5 65 £48,500 +14.12% 19
South West +39 62 £50,000 +17.65% 13
Yorkshire +113 47 £47,500 +15.15% 6
West Midlands +54 47 £37,000 -12.94% 10
Midlands +21 47 £37,000 -26.00% 12
East of England -16 27 £32,500 -35.00% 10
North West -17 18 £61,250 +28.95% 2
Scotland -64 5 £65,000 -6.40% 2
North East +1 4 £29,500 -28.05% 2
Wales - 4 £40,000 -
Northern Ireland +31 2 £34,628 -27.10%

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 205 (39.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (9.73%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.24%) Confluence
4 9 (1.72%) IIS
5 8 (1.53%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 286 (54.58%) Microsoft 365
2 210 (40.08%) Azure
3 109 (20.80%) Entra ID
4 40 (7.63%) AWS
5 32 (6.11%) OneDrive
6 26 (4.96%) IaaS
7 19 (3.63%) PaaS
8 16 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (3.05%) GCP
9 15 (2.86%) Nutanix
10 14 (2.67%) SaaS
11 13 (2.48%) OCI
12 12 (2.29%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.72%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.95%) WhatsApp
15 4 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 4 (0.76%) Azure Storage
16 3 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
16 3 (0.57%) GitHub
16 3 (0.57%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 167 (31.87%) Firewall
2 158 (30.15%) WAN
3 128 (24.43%) Wireless
4 116 (22.14%) DNS
5 109 (20.80%) SD-WAN
6 106 (20.23%) Cisco IOS
7 105 (20.04%) WebEx
8 90 (17.18%) DHCP
9 72 (13.74%) VPN
10 69 (13.17%) SAN
11 61 (11.64%) LAN
12 38 (7.25%) NAS
12 38 (7.25%) TCP/IP
13 35 (6.68%) Remote Desktop
14 33 (6.30%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (5.92%) VSAN
16 30 (5.73%) PBX
17 29 (5.53%) VLAN
18 27 (5.15%) Internet
19 23 (4.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.44%) MySQL
2 33 (6.30%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.53%) DB2
8 2 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.19%) Big Data
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 46 (8.78%) JIRA
2 29 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.24%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.95%) GitLab
General
1 250 (47.71%) Social Skills
2 46 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (6.49%) Finance
4 26 (4.96%) Telecoms
5 22 (4.20%) Law
6 19 (3.63%) Legal
7 18 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 12 (2.29%) Retail
10 11 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.95%) Games
15 4 (0.76%) Banking
16 3 (0.57%) Local Government
16 3 (0.57%) Military
16 3 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.38%) Electronics
17 2 (0.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 140 (26.72%) IT Support
2 126 (24.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 105 (20.04%) IT Support Specialist
3 105 (20.04%) Support Specialist
4 94 (17.94%) Support Engineer
5 64 (12.21%) Senior
6 47 (8.97%) IT Engineer
7 36 (6.87%) Infrastructure Support
8 35 (6.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (6.11%) Systems Engineer
10 31 (5.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 29 (5.53%) Administrator
12 28 (5.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 28 (5.34%) IT Support Engineer
13 26 (4.96%) Architect
13 26 (4.96%) Lead
14 23 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support
15 22 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 22 (4.20%) VMware Engineer
16 21 (4.01%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.58%) YAML
2 19 (3.63%) JSON
3 18 (3.44%) ARM Templates
4 10 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (1.53%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (0.95%) REST
7 4 (0.76%) .NET
7 4 (0.76%) 802.1X
7 4 (0.76%) HTML
7 4 (0.76%) Laravel
7 4 (0.76%) Node.js
7 4 (0.76%) RESTful
7 4 (0.76%) Vue
7 4 (0.76%) XML
8 2 (0.38%) ADO
8 2 (0.38%) LAMP
8 2 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.38%) V-Ray
9 1 (0.19%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 106 (20.23%) Video Conferencing
2 105 (20.04%) Wiki
3 88 (16.79%) Data Centre
4 55 (10.50%) Public Cloud
5 52 (9.92%) Replication
6 51 (9.73%) Clustering
7 31 (5.92%) PKI
8 20 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (3.63%) Private Cloud
10 18 (3.44%) EMC VNX
11 15 (2.86%) Driving Licence
12 11 (2.10%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.53%) EFT
13 8 (1.53%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.34%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.15%) AS400
15 6 (1.15%) iPad
15 6 (1.15%) Virtual Team
16 3 (0.57%) NHS
16 3 (0.57%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 414 (79.01%) Windows
2 225 (42.94%) Windows Server
3 161 (30.73%) Windows 10
4 139 (26.53%) Linux
5 106 (20.23%) Android
6 68 (12.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 42 (8.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 41 (7.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (4.77%) Mac OS
9 25 (4.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (2.67%) CentOS
11 12 (2.29%) Windows XP
12 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
13 6 (1.15%) Unix
13 6 (1.15%) VMS
14 4 (0.76%) Rocky
15 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (25.95%) Business Continuity
3 115 (21.95%) BCP
3 115 (21.95%) Business Continuity Planning
4 112 (21.37%) Computer Science
4 112 (21.37%) Mobile Device Management
5 105 (20.04%) Application Virtualisation
5 105 (20.04%) Contract Negotiation
6 100 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (12.02%) Project Management
8 59 (11.26%) ITIL
9 57 (10.88%) Mentoring
10 56 (10.69%) Agile
11 49 (9.35%) CI/CD
12 48 (9.16%) Migration
13 44 (8.40%) High Availability
14 43 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (8.02%) DevOps
16 39 (7.44%) Disaster Recovery
16 39 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 128 (24.43%) PowerShell
2 32 (6.11%) Bash
3 23 (4.39%) SQL
4 22 (4.20%) Python
5 14 (2.67%) Perl
6 11 (2.10%) ActionScript
7 10 (1.91%) RPG
7 10 (1.91%) VB
8 8 (1.53%) Java
9 6 (1.15%) C#
10 5 (0.95%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.76%) Lua
11 4 (0.76%) PHP
11 4 (0.76%) Ruby
11 4 (0.76%) Tcl
11 4 (0.76%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.38%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 167 (31.87%) Degree
2 108 (20.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 108 (20.61%) Master's Degree
3 80 (15.27%) Security Cleared
4 52 (9.92%) SC Cleared
5 46 (8.78%) CCNA
5 46 (8.78%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (5.92%) DV Cleared
7 25 (4.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 23 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.44%) CCNP
10 16 (3.05%) APMP
11 15 (2.86%) MCSE
12 8 (1.53%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.34%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.95%) HND
14 5 (0.95%) MCSA
14 5 (0.95%) RHCA
14 5 (0.95%) RHCE
14 5 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.67%) SLA
2 8 (1.53%) PMO
3 6 (1.15%) GDPR
3 6 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.38%) NCSC
5 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 375 (71.56%) Active Directory
2 259 (49.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 116 (22.14%) XenApp
4 112 (21.37%) XenDesktop
5 105 (20.04%) Microsoft App-V
6 100 (19.08%) Hyper-V
7 80 (15.27%) vSphere
8 29 (5.53%) Docker
9 27 (5.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (3.63%) Firmware
11 16 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
12 15 (2.86%) VMware NSX
13 13 (2.48%) Virtual Servers
14 10 (1.91%) OpenSSH
15 7 (1.34%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 2 (0.38%) KVM
17 2 (0.38%) pfSense
17 2 (0.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 170 (32.44%) vCenter Server
2 165 (31.49%) SCCM
3 105 (20.04%) AirWatch
4 73 (13.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 47 (8.97%) WSUS
6 30 (5.73%) EMC NetWorker
6 30 (5.73%) SCOM
6 30 (5.73%) Terraform
7 29 (5.53%) Ansible
7 29 (5.53%) Nagios
8 27 (5.15%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Clustering
9 20 (3.82%) Puppet
10 16 (3.05%) vRealize
11 15 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
11 15 (2.86%) PowerCLI
12 14 (2.67%) Kubernetes
13 13 (2.48%) Grafana
13 13 (2.48%) NetBackup
14 10 (1.91%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 392 (74.81%) VMware
2 269 (51.34%) Microsoft
3 209 (39.89%) Cisco
4 187 (35.69%) Citrix
5 106 (20.23%) Veeam
6 35 (6.68%) SolarWinds
7 34 (6.49%) Dell
8 33 (6.30%) NetApp
9 32 (6.11%) Palo Alto
10 31 (5.92%) HP
11 30 (5.73%) EMC
12 29 (5.53%) Commvault
13 27 (5.15%) ServiceNow
14 25 (4.77%) IBM
15 24 (4.58%) Juniper
16 23 (4.39%) Red Hat
17 22 (4.20%) 3PAR
17 22 (4.20%) Oracle
18 21 (4.01%) Extreme Networks
19 20 (3.82%) Brocade