VMware ESXi Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - +73
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 0 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.12% - 2.65%
As % of the System Software category 2.78% - 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 36
10th Percentile £48,750 - £25,500
25th Percentile £50,625 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £38,950
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.10%
75th Percentile £65,625 - £57,414
90th Percentile £68,250 - £115,000
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £34,500 £47,300
% change year-on-year +66.67% -27.06% -5.40%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

VMware ESXi falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 72 172 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.17% 9.54% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 45 74 157
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,850 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.72% +15.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £76,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.26%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware ESXi relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in Birmingham

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Manager
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) vCloud
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Ubiquiti
2 1 (50.00%) Zerto