VMware ESXi Job Trends in the East of England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 165 194
Rank change year-on-year -17 +29 -21
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 6 6 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.095% 0.20% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 2.24% 1.50% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 16
10th Percentile £44,750 - £29,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £76,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +134.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £90,000 £36,250
90th Percentile - - £45,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +7.14%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 268 400 847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.26% 13.54% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 193 290 708
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £24,807
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £26,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -13.98%
75th Percentile £61,250 £59,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £66,250
England median annual salary £53,844 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.29% +7.38% -9.09%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the East of England

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the East of England

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Hertfordshire - 6 £62,500 -
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Software License Management
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) SCCM
1 6 (100.00%) SCOM
2 5 (83.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Dell
1 6 (100.00%) HP
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) McAfee
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft