VMware ESXi Jobs with Work from Home Options

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 435 517 640
Rank change year-on-year +82 +123 -170
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 156 145 203
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 3.64% 2.35% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 127 120 163
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +5.26% -7.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £80,000 £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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,285 6,158 12,951
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.69% 14.85% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,422 4,557 7,577
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

VMware ESXi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware ESXi trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware ESXi.

VMware ESXi salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

VMware ESXi salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 69 (44.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (18.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.56%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.92%) IIS
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (64.10%) Azure
2 79 (50.64%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (28.21%) Entra ID
4 28 (17.95%) AWS
5 20 (12.82%) IaaS
6 15 (9.62%) PaaS
7 14 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.97%) SaaS
8 10 (6.41%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.41%) GCP
9 7 (4.49%) Nutanix
10 6 (3.85%) OneDrive
11 5 (3.21%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.28%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.28%) WhatsApp
13 1 (0.64%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 58 (37.18%) Firewall
2 45 (28.85%) DNS
2 45 (28.85%) VPN
3 32 (20.51%) LAN
4 31 (19.87%) DHCP
5 26 (16.67%) WAN
6 23 (14.74%) Remote Desktop
7 22 (14.10%) TCP/IP
8 21 (13.46%) Internet
9 18 (11.54%) SNMP
9 18 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (10.90%) MPLS
10 17 (10.90%) VLAN
11 12 (7.69%) NGFW
12 11 (7.05%) HTTP
13 10 (6.41%) SAN
13 10 (6.41%) SMTP
13 10 (6.41%) tcpdump
13 10 (6.41%) WLAN
14 8 (5.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.62%) MySQL
2 10 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (6.41%) MongoDB
2 10 (6.41%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.56%) DB2
5 2 (1.28%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (10.90%) JIRA
2 10 (6.41%) Jenkins
General
1 77 (49.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.62%) Finance
3 15 (9.62%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.56%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.92%) Law
7 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Advertising
8 1 (0.64%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (32.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 47 (30.13%) Senior
3 33 (21.15%) Support Engineer
4 24 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (13.46%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (13.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 19 (12.18%) Architect
7 17 (10.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 17 (10.90%) IT Engineer
7 17 (10.90%) Project Manager
8 16 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (10.26%) Lead
9 14 (8.97%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (8.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 12 (7.69%) Citrix Architect
10 12 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
10 12 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
10 12 (7.69%) DevOps Architect
10 12 (7.69%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.10%) YAML
2 17 (10.90%) JSON
3 14 (8.97%) ARM Templates
4 10 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.56%) RESTful
5 4 (2.56%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (2.56%) XML
6 2 (1.28%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.28%) ADO
6 2 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 42 (26.92%) Public Cloud
2 35 (22.44%) Clustering
3 30 (19.23%) Data Centre
4 16 (10.26%) Private Cloud
5 15 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (8.33%) PKI
7 8 (5.13%) EFT
8 7 (4.49%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.49%) Replication
9 6 (3.85%) iPad
10 5 (3.21%) Driving Licence
10 5 (3.21%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.92%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.28%) NHS
12 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.64%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 99 (63.46%) Windows
2 83 (53.21%) Windows Server
3 32 (20.51%) Windows Server 2012
4 29 (18.59%) Linux
5 19 (12.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (12.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (5.13%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 43 (27.56%) Agile
3 33 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (21.15%) DevOps
4 31 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (17.31%) CI/CD
6 25 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (13.46%) Project Management
8 19 (12.18%) High Availability
9 18 (11.54%) Resource Management
10 17 (10.90%) ITIL
10 17 (10.90%) PRINCE2
11 16 (10.26%) Backlog Management
11 16 (10.26%) Information Security
11 16 (10.26%) Performance Management
11 16 (10.26%) Systems Engineering
12 15 (9.62%) Load Balancing
12 15 (9.62%) Migration
13 14 (8.97%) Network Virtualisation
14 13 (8.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.26%) Python
3 14 (8.97%) Perl
4 10 (6.41%) ActionScript
4 10 (6.41%) Bash
5 9 (5.77%) VB
6 4 (2.56%) Lua
6 4 (2.56%) Ruby
6 4 (2.56%) Tcl
7 2 (1.28%) Java
8 1 (0.64%) C
8 1 (0.64%) Go
8 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.18%) Degree
2 16 (10.26%) APMP
3 14 (8.97%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) HND
6 4 (2.56%) CCNA
6 4 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.56%) RHCA
6 4 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.92%) MCSE
8 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.28%) HNC
9 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) MCP
9 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) SLA
2 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.28%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 95 (60.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 94 (60.26%) Active Directory
3 39 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 33 (21.15%) vSphere
5 18 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (10.90%) Docker
7 9 (5.77%) OpenSSH
7 9 (5.77%) XenApp
8 8 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (2.56%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.64%) Firmware
10 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.64%) NFS
10 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (47.44%) vCenter Server
2 27 (17.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (14.74%) Terraform
4 22 (14.10%) WSUS
5 21 (13.46%) SCCM
6 20 (12.82%) Ansible
6 20 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (10.26%) Microsoft Clustering
8 15 (9.62%) Nagios
9 14 (8.97%) Puppet
10 12 (7.69%) Grafana
11 11 (7.05%) HAProxy
11 11 (7.05%) PowerCLI
12 10 (6.41%) Graphite
13 9 (5.77%) IBM BigFix
14 7 (4.49%) Kubernetes
15 6 (3.85%) vRealize
16 5 (3.21%) EMC NetWorker
17 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 4 (2.56%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 137 (87.82%) VMware
2 61 (39.10%) Microsoft
3 52 (33.33%) Cisco
4 50 (32.05%) Citrix
5 22 (14.10%) ServiceNow
6 20 (12.82%) Veeam
7 18 (11.54%) Commvault
7 18 (11.54%) Sun
8 17 (10.90%) Ruckus Wireless
9 13 (8.33%) IBM
10 11 (7.05%) Meraki
10 11 (7.05%) Red Hat
11 10 (6.41%) SolarWinds
12 9 (5.77%) Aruba
12 9 (5.77%) Juniper
13 8 (5.13%) Globalscape
14 7 (4.49%) Extreme Networks
14 7 (4.49%) HP
15 6 (3.85%) Dell
16 5 (3.21%) EMC