VMware ESXi Jobs in the South East

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 325 277
Rank change year-on-year +58 -48 +72
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 56 50 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.30% 0.73%
As % of the System Software category 5.46% 2.34% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 44 42 69
10th Percentile £32,075 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £41,875 £46,250 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £48,500 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +15.48% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,563 £53,500
90th Percentile - £59,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +9.38% +1.05%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,026 2,140 2,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.85% 13.04% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 646 1,676 1,493
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £71,438 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the South East over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the South East

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Hampshire +58 29 £57,500 +18.56% 10
Thames Valley +46 22 £40,500 -31.36% 4
Berkshire +31 17 £34,000 -42.37% 2
Oxfordshire +45 5 £43,500 -14.71% 2
Kent +30 4 £55,000 +57.14% 4
Surrey +37 1 £57,500 +21.05% 1
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (32.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.79%) Confluence
3 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) AWS
3 14 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.71%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.93%) IaaS
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 36 (64.29%) DHCP
1 36 (64.29%) DNS
2 20 (35.71%) Firewall
3 19 (33.93%) SAN
4 11 (19.64%) Remote Desktop
5 10 (17.86%) NAS
6 8 (14.29%) SMTP
7 6 (10.71%) Ethernet
7 6 (10.71%) Modbus
7 6 (10.71%) MQTT
7 6 (10.71%) Network Security
7 6 (10.71%) VSAN
8 5 (8.93%) iSCSI
9 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
9 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.36%) VLAN
9 3 (5.36%) WAN
9 3 (5.36%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (3.57%) SNMP
10 2 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
1 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (30.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 6 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (33.93%) Support Engineer
3 12 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
4 8 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Senior
6 6 (10.71%) Support Specialist
6 6 (10.71%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 6 (10.71%) VMware Specialist
6 6 (10.71%) VMware Support Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (8.93%) Help Desk Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Help Desk Support
7 5 (8.93%) Help Desk Support Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Technical Support
7 5 (8.93%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) SAML
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) PKI
2 14 (25.00%) Clustering
3 6 (10.71%) Biopharmaceutical
3 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.71%) Industry 4.0
3 6 (10.71%) IoT
3 6 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (10.71%) Operational Technology
3 6 (10.71%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (10.71%) SCADA
4 4 (7.14%) Replication
5 3 (5.36%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 47 (83.93%) Windows
2 42 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 20 (35.71%) Linux
4 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (8.93%) Mac OS
6 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.57%) Debian
7 2 (3.57%) SUSE
7 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.79%) Unix
8 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (28.57%) High Availability
3 12 (21.43%) Incident Management
3 12 (21.43%) Task Automation
4 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (19.64%) Project Delivery
5 10 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
7 7 (12.50%) Security Hardening
8 6 (10.71%) Application Virtualisation
8 6 (10.71%) Asset Management
8 6 (10.71%) Configuration Management
8 6 (10.71%) Disk Encryption
8 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.71%) Network Design
8 6 (10.71%) Prototyping
8 6 (10.71%) RBAC
8 6 (10.71%) System Testing
8 6 (10.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (5.36%) Bash
3 3 (5.36%) C#
3 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.14%) DV Cleared
3 12 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (16.07%) Degree
5 6 (10.71%) Chartered Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) HNC
5 6 (10.71%) HND
6 5 (8.93%) Azure Certification
6 5 (8.93%) CCNA
6 5 (8.93%) CCNP
6 5 (8.93%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (82.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (76.79%) Active Directory
3 33 (58.93%) Hyper-V
4 16 (28.57%) vSphere
5 15 (26.79%) Docker
6 8 (14.29%) BitLocker
6 8 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (14.29%) Terminal Services
7 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (5.36%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
8 2 (3.57%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.79%) NFS
9 1 (1.79%) vCloud
9 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (41.07%) vCenter Server
2 16 (28.57%) Ansible
3 14 (25.00%) vMotion
4 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
5 12 (21.43%) Puppet
6 7 (12.50%) PowerCLI
6 7 (12.50%) vRealize
7 6 (10.71%) Functional Safety
7 6 (10.71%) Nagios
8 5 (8.93%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (7.14%) Terraform
10 2 (3.57%) SCCM
10 2 (3.57%) ZENworks
11 1 (1.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) VMware
2 42 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (30.36%) Veeam
4 14 (25.00%) Citrix
4 14 (25.00%) HP
5 6 (10.71%) AVEVA
5 6 (10.71%) Google
5 6 (10.71%) Rockwell
5 6 (10.71%) Siemens
5 6 (10.71%) Symantec
6 5 (8.93%) Sophos
6 5 (8.93%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (5.36%) Meraki
8 2 (3.57%) 3PAR
8 2 (3.57%) Cisco
8 2 (3.57%) Dell
8 2 (3.57%) NetApp
8 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
8 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow