VMware ESXi Jobs in the Midlands

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 289 278
Rank change year-on-year +41 -11 +21
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 10 49 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 1.44% 3.40% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5 34 30
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £26,750 £35,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £36,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.53% -23.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,000 £57,125
90th Percentile - £115,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +9.38% +1.59%

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 696 1,442 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.26% 10.21% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 508 1,168 720
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the Midlands

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend 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 14 June 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 - 10 £57,500 - 11
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 5 (50.00%) Modbus
1 5 (50.00%) MQTT
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SAP HANA
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (50.00%) Industry 4.0
1 5 (50.00%) IoT
1 5 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 5 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
1 5 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (30.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 2 (20.00%) AIX
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 5 (50.00%) Network Design
1 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 5 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 5 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 5 (50.00%) System Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Business Development
2 3 (30.00%) Tech Ops
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Korn
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) HNC
1 5 (50.00%) HND
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) MCP
2 2 (20.00%) MCSA
2 2 (20.00%) MCSE
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Functional Safety
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) AVEVA
2 5 (50.00%) Rockwell
2 5 (50.00%) Siemens
3 3 (30.00%) IBM
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (20.00%) arcserve
4 2 (20.00%) SAP