VMware ESXi Job Trends in Central London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 167 169
Rank change year-on-year +28 +2 +76
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 5 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.44% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 2.40% 3.33% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile £49,250 £61,125 £68,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £69,375 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £91,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.99% +7.35% +54.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £106,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,300 £111,625 £88,350
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +17.39%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 208 421 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 8.20% 13.21% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 163 298 568
10th Percentile £31,300 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,938 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,400 £110,000 £105,375
London median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -3.57%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Central London

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Central London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in Central London

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
City of London +19 3 £57,500 -23.33%
Southwark - 1 £102,000 -
West End of London - 1 £57,500 -
VMware ESXi
London

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) NetScaler
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
4 1 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (20.00%) MCSA
3 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (40.00%) vSphere
4 2 (40.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Pure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) Commvault
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
4 1 (20.00%) Meraki
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Veeam