VMware ESXi Job Trends in Kent

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 73 61
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +26
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 14 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 1.35% 0.55% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 12.84% 2.56% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £46,500
25th Percentile £53,375 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,125 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £46,500 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -19.13% +35.29% -15.00%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 109 156 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 10.53% 21.58% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 69 33 60
10th Percentile £26,950 £24,400 £29,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -5.88% -3.95%
75th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £55,900 £70,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £38,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -33.04% +15.00% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Kent

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DHCP
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
1 14 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) NetScaler
2 2 (14.29%) VSAN
General
1 14 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
1 14 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (85.71%) Windows Server 2012
2 12 (85.71%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (85.71%) Security Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security
3 2 (14.29%) IT Governance
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 2 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Service Management
3 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 12 (85.71%) SCCM
3 2 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 14 (100.00%) NetApp
1 14 (100.00%) Veeam
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (85.71%) 3PAR
2 12 (85.71%) SolarWinds
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) Dell