VMware ESXi Job Trends in England

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 495 411
Rank change year-on-year -129 -84 +178
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 59 145 484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.37% 0.58%
As % of the System Software category 1.40% 2.69% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47 109 313
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.53%
75th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £96,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +6.33%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,221 5,381 10,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.21% 13.81% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,017 3,465 8,692
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,800 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in England

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in England

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East -44 20 £33,500 -36.19% 13
London -79 12 £57,500 -20.69% 6
North of England -36 9 £50,000 +2.56% 8
South West -60 9 £40,000 -33.33% 6
East of England -12 6 £62,500 -18.03%
Yorkshire -53 5 £50,000 -21.57% 3
North West -4 4 £47,500 +35.71% 5
East Midlands -21 2 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Midlands -34 2 £45,000 -18.18% 6
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 5 (8.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.39%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 25 (42.37%) Azure
2 23 (38.98%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (23.73%) Entra ID
4 8 (13.56%) SaaS
5 7 (11.86%) AWS
6 2 (3.39%) IaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
7 1 (1.69%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.07%) DNS
2 22 (37.29%) DHCP
3 17 (28.81%) Firewall
4 12 (20.34%) SAN
5 11 (18.64%) LAN
5 11 (18.64%) WAN
5 11 (18.64%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (16.95%) VPN
7 8 (13.56%) VLAN
8 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
9 5 (8.47%) NAS
9 5 (8.47%) SD-WAN
10 4 (6.78%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (6.78%) BGP
10 4 (6.78%) MPLS
10 4 (6.78%) NetScaler
10 4 (6.78%) Network Security
10 4 (6.78%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (6.78%) VoIP
10 4 (6.78%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) GitLab
2 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Finance
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.39%) Games
3 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.39%) Retail
4 1 (1.69%) Banking
4 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (27.12%) IT Support
3 14 (23.73%) IT Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) Support Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) IT Support Technician
6 6 (10.17%) IT Technician
6 6 (10.17%) Support Technician
6 6 (10.17%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Network Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead
9 3 (5.08%) Senior
9 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Windows Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Citrix Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.47%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.78%) Clustering
3 4 (6.78%) PKI
3 4 (6.78%) Replication
4 3 (5.08%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.69%) CCTV
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 47 (79.66%) Windows
2 34 (57.63%) Windows Server
3 25 (42.37%) Linux
4 13 (22.03%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (20.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (11.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (10.17%) Apple iOS
7 6 (10.17%) Mac OS
7 6 (10.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (27.12%) ITIL
3 15 (25.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (13.56%) Change Management
7 7 (11.86%) DevOps
7 7 (11.86%) Service Delivery
7 7 (11.86%) SIEM
7 7 (11.86%) Threat Detection
8 6 (10.17%) Mobile Device Management
8 6 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (10.17%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (10.17%) Process Improvement
8 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
8 6 (10.17%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (10.17%) Service Management
9 5 (8.47%) Cloud Security
9 5 (8.47%) Software License Management
10 4 (6.78%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.56%) SQL
3 3 (5.08%) Python
4 2 (3.39%) Bicep
4 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.69%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) DV Cleared
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (11.86%) CCNA
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Certification
4 5 (8.47%) CCNP
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.39%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CCIE
7 1 (1.69%) CCSE
7 1 (1.69%) CCSM
7 1 (1.69%) Degree
7 1 (1.69%) Dell Certification
7 1 (1.69%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) GDPR
2 5 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.08%) NIST
3 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.08%) SLA
4 2 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.39%) NCSC
4 2 (3.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.69%) RMADS
System Software
1 46 (77.97%) Active Directory
2 40 (67.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (37.29%) vSphere
4 12 (20.34%) Hyper-V
5 7 (11.86%) VMware NSX
6 4 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (3.39%) UAG
7 2 (3.39%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.69%) Docker
8 1 (1.69%) KVM
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (44.07%) vCenter Server
2 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (16.95%) SCCM
4 9 (15.25%) Ansible
5 8 (13.56%) SCOM
6 6 (10.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (10.17%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (8.47%) FortiGate
7 5 (8.47%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 5 (8.47%) WSUS
8 4 (6.78%) Terraform
9 3 (5.08%) PowerCLI
10 2 (3.39%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (3.39%) VxRail
11 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
11 1 (1.69%) Netcool
11 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (98.31%) VMware
2 44 (74.58%) Microsoft
3 14 (23.73%) Dell
4 11 (18.64%) Veeam
5 7 (11.86%) Cisco
5 7 (11.86%) HP
5 7 (11.86%) NetApp
5 7 (11.86%) SolarWinds
6 6 (10.17%) Apple
6 6 (10.17%) IBM
6 6 (10.17%) McAfee
7 5 (8.47%) Fortinet
7 5 (8.47%) Splunk
8 4 (6.78%) 3PAR
8 4 (6.78%) Citrix
8 4 (6.78%) Facebook
8 4 (6.78%) Instagram
9 3 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
10 2 (3.39%) Pure Storage