VMware ESXi Job Trends in the Midlands

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 245 156
Rank change year-on-year +49 -89 +127
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 15 23 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.27% 1.24%
As % of the System Software category 3.07% 2.80% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 56
10th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £32,375 £35,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £38,250 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +50.33% -22.83% +10.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,375 £57,096
90th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% +15.00% -

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 489 820 810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.02% 9.60% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 383 457 705
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £33,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £74,144 £67,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £56,763 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.56% +3.20% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
East Midlands +35 10 £57,500 +4.55% 3
West Midlands +40 4 £50,000 +36.99% 3
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 5 (33.33%) Modbus
1 5 (33.33%) MQTT
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) NAS
2 3 (20.00%) SAN
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) SAP HANA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Manufacturing
2 5 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Administrator
1 5 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) VMWare Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) ERP Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Biopharmaceutical
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (33.33%) Industry 4.0
1 5 (33.33%) IoT
1 5 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 5 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
1 5 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (26.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (13.33%) AIX
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 5 (33.33%) Network Design
1 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 5 (33.33%) Prototyping
1 5 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
1 5 (33.33%) System Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Tech Ops
3 3 (20.00%) Business Development
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) CRM
3 3 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) High Availability
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Korn
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Chartered Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) HNC
1 5 (33.33%) HND
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) vSphere
3 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (13.33%) Docker
5 2 (13.33%) vCloud
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Functional Safety
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
3 2 (13.33%) ZABBIX
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (33.33%) AVEVA
2 5 (33.33%) Rockwell
2 5 (33.33%) Siemens
2 5 (33.33%) Veeam
3 4 (26.67%) IBM
3 4 (26.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 2 (13.33%) Zerto