VMware ESXi Jobs in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 229 227
Rank change year-on-year +55 -2 +33
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 23 11 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.63% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 6.65% 1.25% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 15
10th Percentile £31,250 £48,850 £32,910
25th Percentile £34,000 £49,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £59,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% +31.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £47,813 - £53,750
90th Percentile £52,500 - £66,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +14.12% -8.60%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 346 882 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.48% 13.06% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 226 730 604
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,450 £25,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,563 £67,500 £69,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,625
South East median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the Thames Valley

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +34 17 £34,000 -42.37% 3
Oxfordshire +51 5 £43,500 -14.71% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £35,000 -
VMware ESXi
South East

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
4 5 (21.74%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) DHCP
1 13 (56.52%) DNS
2 11 (47.83%) Firewall
3 7 (30.43%) SAN
4 5 (21.74%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
5 3 (13.04%) WAN
5 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
6 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.35%) VLAN
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (21.74%) Help Desk Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (21.74%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Support
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Support Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Coordinator
4 3 (13.04%) Project Coordinator
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Coordinator
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Project Coordinator
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.35%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) PKI
2 3 (13.04%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 19 (82.61%) Windows Server
3 5 (21.74%) Mac OS
4 4 (17.39%) Linux
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.35%) Unix
6 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (34.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (21.74%) CRM
4 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
4 5 (21.74%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (21.74%) Presales
4 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
4 5 (21.74%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) Budget Management
6 2 (8.70%) Business Continuity
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
6 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (8.70%) Security Patching
6 2 (8.70%) SIEM
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (4.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
3 5 (21.74%) CCNA
3 5 (21.74%) CCNP
3 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (86.96%) Active Directory
2 17 (73.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (69.57%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (13.04%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (8.70%) vSphere
6 1 (4.35%) NFS
6 1 (4.35%) vCloud
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 5 (21.74%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.70%) ZENworks
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (91.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (21.74%) Sophos
3 5 (21.74%) Ubiquiti
3 5 (21.74%) Veeam
4 3 (13.04%) Meraki