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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 246 173
Rank change year-on-year +42 -73 +97
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 16 24 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.27% 1.16%
As % of the System Software category 2.67% 2.94% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 54
10th Percentile £47,500 £29,450 £26,250
25th Percentile £49,375 £31,250 £33,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £49,565
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -19.30% +10.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £57,000
90th Percentile £70,000 - £57,500
England median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -

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 599 817 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.83% 9.20% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 425 456 711
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £34,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £63,400 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 +19 11 £57,500 +4.55% 3
West Midlands +27 4 £50,000 +37.93% 2
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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Ethernet
1 5 (31.25%) Modbus
1 5 (31.25%) MQTT
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) DHCP
3 3 (18.75%) NAS
3 3 (18.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) SAP HANA
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (31.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (18.75%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Administrator
1 5 (31.25%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) VMWare Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) ERP Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Biopharmaceutical
1 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
1 5 (31.25%) Industry 4.0
1 5 (31.25%) IoT
1 5 (31.25%) Operational Technology
1 5 (31.25%) Renewable Energy
1 5 (31.25%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (25.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
4 2 (12.50%) AIX
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.25%) VMS
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Asset Management
1 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
1 5 (31.25%) Network Design
1 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
1 5 (31.25%) Prototyping
1 5 (31.25%) Risk Assessment
1 5 (31.25%) System Testing
2 4 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 3 (18.75%) Business Development
3 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) CRM
3 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 2 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Korn
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Chartered Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
1 5 (31.25%) HNC
1 5 (31.25%) HND
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) MCP
2 1 (6.25%) MCSA
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) vSphere
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (12.50%) Docker
4 2 (12.50%) vCloud
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Functional Safety
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (18.75%) vCenter Server
4 2 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 2 (12.50%) ZABBIX
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) AVEVA
2 5 (31.25%) Rockwell
2 5 (31.25%) Siemens
2 5 (31.25%) Veeam
3 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 2 (12.50%) Zerto
6 1 (6.25%) arcserve