VMware ESXi Job Trends in South Yorkshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 52 91
Rank change year-on-year -31 +39 +33
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 2 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.14% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 4.00% 1.23% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55,000 - £50,000
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £63,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.57% +34.21% +22.58%

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 50 81 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.44% 18.33% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 48 54 133
10th Percentile £29,850 £26,000 £25,850
25th Percentile £38,625 £28,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -23.53% +23.19%
75th Percentile £60,000 £48,313 £51,250
90th Percentile £63,650 £61,000 £62,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -20.45% -2.22%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware ESXi relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
Sheffield -22 2 £50,000 - 1
VMware ESXi
Yorkshire

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam