VMware ESXi Job Trends in Cheltenham

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.81% - 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 7.14% - 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.60%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £66,250 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.26% -5.83% +29.03%

All System Software Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 76 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 11.38% 27.34% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 26 60
10th Percentile £51,750 £29,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £39,688 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +0.45% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,125 £71,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £78,875
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -4.55%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) VMware