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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 68 112
Rank change year-on-year +12 +44 +9
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 5 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.68% 0.18% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 7.58% 0.88% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £52,750 - £33,275
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +20.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £73,125 £67,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £74,250 - £88,750
South West median annual salary £42,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.09% +15.00% +6.38%

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 66 113 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 9.02% 20.58% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 46 62 213
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,150 £29,440
25th Percentile £41,563 £42,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £89,000 £72,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +8.89%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in Gloucestershire

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 6 February 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
Gloucester +4 1 - -
Tewkesbury - 1 £70,000 -
Cheltenham - 1 £67,500 - 1
VMware ESXi
South West

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Mimecast
2 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) Debian
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) BCP
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Meraki
3 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat