VMware ESXi Job Trends in the City of London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 147 155
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +62
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 8 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.071% 0.32% 0.71%
As % of the System Software category 1.01% 2.43% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 18
10th Percentile - £58,125 £66,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £69,375 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £83,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% -1.47% +54.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £99,063 £87,500
90th Percentile - £101,250 -
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £92,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -37.84% +8.82% +54.55%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 198 329 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.04% 13.33% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 155 240 529
10th Percentile £28,500 £36,200 £36,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,875 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -1.17%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the City of London

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Citrix Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) VMware