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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 212 254
Rank change year-on-year -59 +42 -62
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 3 17 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.020% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 0.47% 2.42% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 18
10th Percentile £44,475 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £47,063 £50,313 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £56,250 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +54.11% -26.36%
75th Percentile £56,063 £58,750 £53,000
90th Percentile £58,425 £68,875 £57,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +5.92%

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 636 702 941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.18% 12.30% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 504 532 645
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,625 £28,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,651 £37,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.40% -15.73% +0.44%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -12.04% -1.82%

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 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 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
East Midlands -34 2 £51,750 -10.00% 3
West Midlands -32 1 - - 5
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 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Police
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Java SE
1 1 (33.33%) OpenLayers
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
1 1 (33.33%) Server Building
1 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Veeam