VMware ESXi Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 501 505
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 -18
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 92 286 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 2.21% 3.23% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 69 223 218
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,300 £25,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £33,875 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +10.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,875 £53,750
90th Percentile £64,000 £65,625 £62,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +8.25% +2.11%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,161 8,853 9,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.57% 11.87% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 6,985 5,661
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% -9.09% -

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK excluding London

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +81 48 £50,000 - 63
South West +55 17 £60,000 +20.00% 33
North of England -2 15 £40,000 -20.00% 34
North West +2 9 £35,000 -41.67% 18
Yorkshire +18 6 £63,750 +34.21% 12
Wales +48 5 £47,500 +18.75% 5
East of England +21 4 £90,000 +176.92% 27
Midlands +39 3 £55,000 +50.68% 40
East Midlands - 3 £55,000 - 15
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.35%) Apache
3 4 (4.35%) nginx
4 2 (2.17%) Confluence
4 2 (2.17%) IIS
5 1 (1.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.00%) Azure
2 24 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (21.74%) AWS
4 8 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.70%) IaaS
5 7 (7.61%) GCP
6 6 (6.52%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.26%) SaaS
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.17%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 44 (47.83%) Firewall
2 38 (41.30%) DNS
3 36 (39.13%) DHCP
4 27 (29.35%) SAN
5 16 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (14.13%) MPLS
6 13 (14.13%) VLAN
7 12 (13.04%) NAS
8 11 (11.96%) Remote Desktop
9 10 (10.87%) VoIP
10 8 (8.70%) SMTP
10 8 (8.70%) VPN
11 7 (7.61%) WAN
12 6 (6.52%) Network Security
12 6 (6.52%) SD-WAN
12 6 (6.52%) VSAN
13 5 (5.43%) iSCSI
14 4 (4.35%) LAN
15 3 (3.26%) Ethernet
15 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 4 (4.35%) MySQL
3 4 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (3.26%) GitLab
2 3 (3.26%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (20.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.22%) Manufacturing
3 10 (10.87%) Legal
4 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.17%) Games
6 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.09%) Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Finance
7 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (20.65%) Support Engineer
3 14 (15.22%) Administrator
3 14 (15.22%) Systems Administrator
4 12 (13.04%) Coordinator
4 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
4 12 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
4 12 (13.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 11 (11.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Help Desk Coordinator
6 10 (10.87%) Senior
7 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) IT Support
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 6 (6.52%) VMware Specialist
8 6 (6.52%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) SAML
2 2 (2.17%) .NET
2 2 (2.17%) CSS
3 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) PKI
2 16 (17.39%) Clustering
3 13 (14.13%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (10.87%) CCTV
5 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
6 6 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.35%) Replication
8 3 (3.26%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.26%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (3.26%) IoT
8 3 (3.26%) Operational Technology
8 3 (3.26%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (3.26%) SCADA
9 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (83.70%) Windows
2 66 (71.74%) Windows Server
3 37 (40.22%) Linux
4 14 (15.22%) Windows 10
5 12 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (6.52%) CentOS
7 6 (6.52%) Ubuntu
7 6 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (5.43%) Mac OS
9 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.17%) Debian
10 2 (2.17%) SUSE
11 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.74%) Virtual Environments
4 19 (20.65%) High Availability
5 17 (18.48%) ERP
6 13 (14.13%) Time Management
7 12 (13.04%) Incident Management
7 12 (13.04%) Task Automation
8 11 (11.96%) ITIL
9 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.70%) Containerisation
10 8 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (7.61%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (7.61%) Machine Learning
11 7 (7.61%) Project Delivery
11 7 (7.61%) Security Hardening
11 7 (7.61%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.39%) SQL
3 10 (10.87%) Bash
3 10 (10.87%) Python
4 2 (2.17%) C#
4 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) DV Cleared
3 13 (14.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (11.96%) Degree
5 8 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.43%) CCNA
7 5 (5.43%) CCNP
7 5 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.26%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) HNC
9 3 (3.26%) HND
9 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.17%) MCP
10 2 (2.17%) MCSA
10 2 (2.17%) MCSE
11 1 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.09%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) SLA
2 1 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 67 (72.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 57 (61.96%) Active Directory
3 33 (35.87%) Hyper-V
4 25 (27.17%) vSphere
5 19 (20.65%) Docker
6 8 (8.70%) BitLocker
6 8 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (8.70%) Terminal Services
7 6 (6.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (5.43%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (5.43%) VMware NSX
9 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (2.17%) Firmware
10 2 (2.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (1.09%) NFS
11 1 (1.09%) Squid
11 1 (1.09%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 28 (30.43%) vCenter Server
2 25 (27.17%) Ansible
3 16 (17.39%) Puppet
4 14 (15.22%) Terraform
4 14 (15.22%) vMotion
5 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
6 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (9.78%) Nagios
8 7 (7.61%) PowerCLI
8 7 (7.61%) vRealize
9 5 (5.43%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (3.26%) Functional Safety
10 3 (3.26%) Graylog
10 3 (3.26%) Rundeck
11 2 (2.17%) ZENworks
12 1 (1.09%) Avamar
12 1 (1.09%) HAProxy
12 1 (1.09%) Packer
12 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
12 1 (1.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 91 (98.91%) VMware
2 62 (67.39%) Microsoft
3 33 (35.87%) Veeam
4 18 (19.57%) Citrix
5 16 (17.39%) HP
6 8 (8.70%) Cisco
7 6 (6.52%) Google
7 6 (6.52%) Symantec
8 5 (5.43%) Sophos
8 5 (5.43%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (4.35%) Dell
10 3 (3.26%) CheckPoint
10 3 (3.26%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (3.26%) Juniper
10 3 (3.26%) NetApp
10 3 (3.26%) PagerDuty
10 3 (3.26%) Rockwell
10 3 (3.26%) Siemens
10 3 (3.26%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.26%) Zscaler