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 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 161 221 245
Rank change year-on-year +60 +24 -5
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 18 22 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.33% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 5.52% 2.19% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 14
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £35,655
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £59,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -40.68% +15.12% +2.50%
75th Percentile £47,813 - £59,375
90th Percentile £64,875 - £71,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +8.25% +14.12% -5.56%

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 326 1,006 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.61% 14.96% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 224 807 647
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £38,938 £36,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £81,250 £69,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,950 £85,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.47%

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 May 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 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
Berkshire +28 11 £34,000 -42.37% 11
Oxfordshire +35 4 £45,000 -11.76% 2
Buckinghamshire - 3 £35,000 - 2
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 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) nginx
3 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) IaaS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
2 8 (44.44%) DNS
3 7 (38.89%) DHCP
4 5 (27.78%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (16.67%) SAN
5 3 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 3 (16.67%) WAN
5 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) VSAN
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Help Desk Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (27.78%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Support
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) PKI
2 3 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (33.33%) Linux
4 5 (27.78%) Mac OS
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.56%) Unix
6 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) CRM
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 4 (22.22%) Presales
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 3 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) SIEM
5 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (5.56%) Incident Response
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CCNP
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CCNA
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCSE
4 1 (5.56%) CCSM
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 11 (61.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (5.56%) NFS
4 1 (5.56%) Squid
4 1 (5.56%) vCloud
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) vCenter Server
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.11%) ZENworks
4 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
4 1 (5.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) Sophos
3 5 (27.78%) Ubiquiti
4 4 (22.22%) Veeam
5 3 (16.67%) Meraki
6 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto