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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 332 319
Rank change year-on-year +89 -13 +22
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 46 58 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.34% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 5.24% 2.39% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 43 54 65
10th Percentile £34,000 £28,625 -
25th Percentile £41,500 £41,125 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +14.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £59,000 £53,500
90th Percentile £63,000 - £57,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +5.26%

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 878 2,426 2,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.41% 14.42% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 659 1,946 1,637
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.94%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -0.90%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +66 24 £57,500 +18.56% 19
Thames Valley +53 19 £35,000 -40.68% 17
Berkshire +31 11 £34,000 -42.37% 14
Oxfordshire +37 4 £45,000 -11.76% 3
Buckinghamshire - 4 £48,750 - 2
Kent +33 2 £55,000 +29.41%
Surrey +44 1 £57,500 +28.49%
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 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (15.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (13.04%) GCP
4 6 (13.04%) OpenShift
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.70%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (63.04%) DNS
2 28 (60.87%) DHCP
3 21 (45.65%) Firewall
4 14 (30.43%) SAN
5 11 (23.91%) Remote Desktop
6 10 (21.74%) NAS
7 8 (17.39%) SMTP
7 8 (17.39%) VSAN
8 6 (13.04%) Network Security
9 5 (10.87%) iSCSI
10 3 (6.52%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (6.52%) SD-WAN
10 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
10 3 (6.52%) VLAN
10 3 (6.52%) VPN
10 3 (6.52%) WAN
10 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (4.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
1 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (32.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Support Engineer
2 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) VMware Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 6 (13.04%) Support Specialist
5 6 (13.04%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 6 (13.04%) VMware Specialist
5 6 (13.04%) VMware Support Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Help Desk Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Help Desk Support
6 5 (10.87%) Help Desk Support Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Technical Support
6 5 (10.87%) Technical Support Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) SAML
2 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Clustering
2 12 (26.09%) PKI
3 6 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (10.87%) Replication
5 3 (6.52%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
6 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (89.13%) Windows
2 34 (73.91%) Windows Server
3 24 (52.17%) Linux
4 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (10.87%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (4.35%) Debian
7 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.35%) SUSE
7 2 (4.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.17%) Unix
8 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (36.96%) High Availability
3 14 (30.43%) Incident Management
4 12 (26.09%) Task Automation
5 8 (17.39%) Virtual Environments
6 7 (15.22%) Security Hardening
7 6 (13.04%) Application Virtualisation
7 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
7 6 (13.04%) Disk Encryption
7 6 (13.04%) ITIL
7 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.04%) RBAC
7 6 (13.04%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.87%) CRM
8 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
8 5 (10.87%) Presales
8 5 (10.87%) SIEM
9 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.70%) Python
3 3 (6.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 18 (39.13%) DV Cleared
3 10 (21.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (10.87%) CCNP
4 5 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.52%) CCNA
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) CCSE
6 2 (4.35%) CCSM
6 2 (4.35%) CISSP
7 1 (2.17%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (80.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (73.91%) Active Directory
3 29 (63.04%) Hyper-V
4 16 (34.78%) vSphere
5 15 (32.61%) Docker
6 8 (17.39%) BitLocker
6 8 (17.39%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (17.39%) Terminal Services
7 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (2.17%) NFS
8 1 (2.17%) Squid
8 1 (2.17%) vCloud
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (47.83%) vCenter Server
2 16 (34.78%) Ansible
3 14 (30.43%) vMotion
4 13 (28.26%) Kubernetes
5 12 (26.09%) Puppet
6 7 (15.22%) PowerCLI
6 7 (15.22%) vRealize
7 6 (13.04%) Nagios
8 4 (8.70%) Terraform
9 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (4.35%) ZENworks
11 1 (2.17%) HAProxy
11 1 (2.17%) Packer
11 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) VMware
2 35 (76.09%) Microsoft
3 15 (32.61%) HP
3 15 (32.61%) Veeam
4 14 (30.43%) Citrix
5 6 (13.04%) Google
5 6 (13.04%) Symantec
6 5 (10.87%) Cisco
6 5 (10.87%) Sophos
6 5 (10.87%) Ubiquiti
7 3 (6.52%) Meraki
8 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.35%) Dell
8 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.17%) Tanium