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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 161 165
Rank change year-on-year +36 +4 +109
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.062% 0.29% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 0.56% 2.06% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £64,500 -
25th Percentile £96,000 £67,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,000 £75,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +39.53% -12.24%
75th Percentile £108,000 £111,250 £63,438
90th Percentile - £113,500 £70,000
Central London median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -23.33% +30.43% +4.55%

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 179 389 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 11.15% 14.12% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 138 258 578
10th Percentile £35,150 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £84,688 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £107,375
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £68,918 £67,500
% change year-on-year -12.94% +2.10% -3.57%

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
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 £102,000 -
VMware ESXi
Central London

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 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware