VMware ESXi Job Trends in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 84 93
Rank change year-on-year +31 +9 +23
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 5 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.92% 0.46% 0.77%
As % of the System Software category 7.35% 2.76% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £58,250 £41,700 £30,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £42,000 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.36% -11.67% +29.03%
75th Percentile £74,375 £73,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £78,900 £80,500
South West median annual salary £42,500 £53,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year -19.81% +36.77% -16.67%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 68 181 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.45% 16.48% 28.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53 107 164
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,500 £26,625
25th Percentile £40,584 £47,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £72,438
90th Percentile £94,000 £82,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £43,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% +10.00% -4.76%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Tewkesbury - 2 £67,500 -
VMware ESXi
South West

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Debian
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Business Development
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat