VMware ESXi Jobs in Hampshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 166 160
Rank change year-on-year +65 -6 +61
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 23 22 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.14% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 9.31% 3.65% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20 21 6
10th Percentile £45,325 - £23,000
25th Percentile £45,688 £36,250 £41,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,500 £49,875
Median % change year-on-year +18.56% -2.76% +7.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £54,281
90th Percentile - £64,500 £60,375
South East median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.25% +14.12% -5.56%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 247 602 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.22% 15.05% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 187 492 464
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £26,075
25th Percentile £40,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Hampshire

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in Hampshire.

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in Hampshire

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Basingstoke +19 18 £57,500 +93.28% 7
Romsey - 3 - -
Hook - 1 £47,500 -
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
3 6 (26.09%) OpenShift
4 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) DHCP
1 18 (78.26%) DNS
2 10 (43.48%) NAS
2 10 (43.48%) SAN
3 8 (34.78%) Firewall
3 8 (34.78%) SMTP
4 6 (26.09%) Network Security
4 6 (26.09%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (26.09%) VSAN
5 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
6 2 (8.70%) SNMP
6 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
General
1 15 (65.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Support Engineer
2 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Support Specialist
4 6 (26.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 6 (26.09%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) VMware Specialist
4 6 (26.09%) VMware Support Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Administrator
6 3 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (13.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (13.04%) Server Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (60.87%) Clustering
2 8 (34.78%) PKI
3 6 (26.09%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (17.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (91.30%) Windows Server
3 13 (56.52%) Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) High Availability
2 12 (52.17%) Incident Management
2 12 (52.17%) Task Automation
3 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Application Virtualisation
4 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 6 (26.09%) Disk Encryption
4 6 (26.09%) RBAC
4 6 (26.09%) Security Hardening
4 6 (26.09%) Virtual Environments
4 6 (26.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 2 (8.70%) Architectural Design
7 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
2 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) DV Cleared
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (91.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (86.96%) Active Directory
3 18 (78.26%) Hyper-V
4 15 (65.22%) Docker
5 12 (52.17%) vSphere
6 8 (34.78%) BitLocker
6 8 (34.78%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (34.78%) Terminal Services
7 2 (8.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Ansible
2 14 (60.87%) vCenter Server
2 14 (60.87%) vMotion
3 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 12 (52.17%) Puppet
4 6 (26.09%) Nagios
4 6 (26.09%) PowerCLI
4 6 (26.09%) vRealize
5 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (78.26%) Microsoft
3 14 (60.87%) Citrix
4 12 (52.17%) HP
5 10 (43.48%) Veeam
6 6 (26.09%) Google
6 6 (26.09%) Symantec
7 2 (8.70%) Cisco