VMware ESXi Jobs in the South West

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 229 242
Rank change year-on-year +59 +13 +23
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 17 64 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.47% 0.69% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 4.43% 5.38% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3 47 17
10th Percentile - £33,625 £24,750
25th Percentile - £41,500 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £53,375 £47,500
90th Percentile - £63,750 £62,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +5.82%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 384 1,190 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.68% 12.82% 16.98%
Number of salaries quoted 269 966 713
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,338 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the South West

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Dorset +51 10 - -
Gloucestershire +62 4 - - 6
Bristol - 3 £60,000 - 4
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
1 3 (17.65%) IaaS
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (17.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) Firewall
1 13 (76.47%) MPLS
1 13 (76.47%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (58.82%) SAN
2 10 (58.82%) VLAN
2 10 (58.82%) VoIP
3 3 (17.65%) LAN
3 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
3 3 (17.65%) Unified Communications
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (58.82%) Legal
1 10 (58.82%) Manufacturing
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Coordinator
1 10 (58.82%) Help Desk Coordinator
2 4 (23.53%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) CCTV
1 10 (58.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (82.35%) Windows Server
3 13 (76.47%) Windows 10
4 7 (41.18%) Linux
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) ERP
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (58.82%) Time Management
1 10 (58.82%) Virtual Environments
2 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) ITSM
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (17.65%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
3 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 4 (23.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (23.53%) Docker
4 3 (17.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
3 10 (58.82%) Veeam
4 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
4 3 (17.65%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
4 3 (17.65%) Zscaler