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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 500 472
Rank change year-on-year +21 -28 +34
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 106 285 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 2.48% 3.16% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 74 217 211
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £40,063 £34,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +14.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,750 £65,000 £61,250
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 4,276 9,026 8,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.76% 11.08% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,415 6,944 5,499
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +92 53 £50,000 +3.09% 64
North of England +19 18 £45,000 -10.00% 48
South West +57 17 £60,000 +20.00% 27
North West +29 13 £35,000 -41.67% 29
Midlands +62 11 £57,500 +57.53% 34
East Midlands - 11 £57,500 - 16
Wales +43 5 £47,500 +18.75% 3
Yorkshire +19 5 £75,000 +57.89% 19
East of England +11 2 £76,250 +134.62% 18
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 24 (22.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) IIS
4 1 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (9.43%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 50 (47.17%) Azure
2 25 (23.58%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (21.70%) AWS
4 8 (7.55%) IaaS
5 7 (6.60%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.60%) GCP
6 6 (5.66%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.83%) SaaS
8 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.89%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 42 (39.62%) Firewall
2 37 (34.91%) DHCP
2 37 (34.91%) DNS
3 28 (26.42%) SAN
4 16 (15.09%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (13.21%) VLAN
6 13 (12.26%) MPLS
7 12 (11.32%) NAS
8 11 (10.38%) Ethernet
8 11 (10.38%) Modbus
8 11 (10.38%) MQTT
8 11 (10.38%) Remote Desktop
9 10 (9.43%) VoIP
10 8 (7.55%) SMTP
10 8 (7.55%) WAN
11 7 (6.60%) SD-WAN
11 7 (6.60%) VPN
12 6 (5.66%) Network Security
12 6 (5.66%) VSAN
13 5 (4.72%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.77%) MariaDB
3 4 (3.77%) MySQL
3 4 (3.77%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (2.83%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
General
1 22 (20.75%) Manufacturing
2 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (10.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 10 (9.43%) Legal
6 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.89%) Games
8 2 (1.89%) Military
9 1 (0.94%) Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Finance
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (21.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (19.81%) Support Engineer
3 16 (15.09%) Administrator
4 14 (13.21%) Infrastructure Support
4 14 (13.21%) Linux Administrator
4 14 (13.21%) Systems Administrator
5 13 (12.26%) Coordinator
6 12 (11.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 12 (11.32%) Senior
7 11 (10.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 11 (10.38%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (9.43%) Help Desk Coordinator
9 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 8 (7.55%) VMware Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Applications Support
11 7 (6.60%) IT Support
11 7 (6.60%) Technical Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Support Specialist
12 6 (5.66%) Virtualisation Specialist
12 6 (5.66%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) .NET
1 6 (5.66%) CSS
2 5 (4.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) PKI
2 16 (15.09%) Clustering
3 13 (12.26%) Video Conferencing
4 12 (11.32%) Data Centre
5 11 (10.38%) Biopharmaceutical
5 11 (10.38%) Industry 4.0
5 11 (10.38%) IoT
5 11 (10.38%) Operational Technology
5 11 (10.38%) Renewable Energy
5 11 (10.38%) SCADA
6 10 (9.43%) CCTV
7 6 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.77%) Replication
9 2 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (74.53%) Windows
2 70 (66.04%) Windows Server
3 40 (37.74%) Linux
4 14 (13.21%) Windows 10
4 14 (13.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (9.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (7.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (5.66%) CentOS
7 6 (5.66%) Ubuntu
8 5 (4.72%) Mac OS
9 4 (3.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.89%) AIX
11 2 (1.89%) Debian
11 2 (1.89%) SUSE
12 1 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.75%) Virtual Environments
4 19 (17.92%) High Availability
5 18 (16.98%) ERP
6 17 (16.04%) Project Delivery
7 13 (12.26%) ITIL
7 13 (12.26%) Time Management
8 12 (11.32%) Asset Management
8 12 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (11.32%) Incident Management
8 12 (11.32%) Network Design
8 12 (11.32%) Task Automation
9 11 (10.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (10.38%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.38%) Prototyping
9 11 (10.38%) Risk Assessment
9 11 (10.38%) System Testing
10 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (8.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.36%) PowerShell
2 16 (15.09%) SQL
3 14 (13.21%) Python
4 12 (11.32%) Bash
5 6 (5.66%) C#
5 6 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.89%) Korn
6 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.58%) DV Cleared
3 21 (19.81%) Degree
4 14 (13.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (10.38%) Chartered Engineer
5 11 (10.38%) HNC
5 11 (10.38%) HND
6 7 (6.60%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.60%) CCNA
6 7 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (6.60%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.72%) CCNP
8 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.89%) MCP
9 2 (1.89%) MCSA
9 2 (1.89%) MCSE
9 2 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.94%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) SLA
2 1 (0.94%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 78 (73.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (54.72%) Active Directory
3 34 (32.08%) Hyper-V
4 27 (25.47%) vSphere
5 21 (19.81%) Docker
6 8 (7.55%) BitLocker
6 8 (7.55%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (7.55%) Terminal Services
7 7 (6.60%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (4.72%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (4.72%) VMware NSX
9 4 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.89%) Firmware
10 2 (1.89%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.94%) NFS
11 1 (0.94%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 30 (28.30%) vCenter Server
2 25 (23.58%) Ansible
3 15 (14.15%) Kubernetes
3 15 (14.15%) Terraform
4 14 (13.21%) Puppet
4 14 (13.21%) vMotion
5 11 (10.38%) Functional Safety
6 10 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (6.60%) Nagios
7 7 (6.60%) PowerCLI
7 7 (6.60%) vRealize
8 5 (4.72%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.89%) Grafana
10 2 (1.89%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.89%) ZENworks
11 1 (0.94%) Graylog
11 1 (0.94%) Packer
11 1 (0.94%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.94%) SCOM
Vendors
1 105 (99.06%) VMware
2 65 (61.32%) Microsoft
3 33 (31.13%) Veeam
4 17 (16.04%) Citrix
5 15 (14.15%) HP
6 11 (10.38%) AVEVA
6 11 (10.38%) Rockwell
6 11 (10.38%) Siemens
7 9 (8.49%) Cisco
8 6 (5.66%) Google
8 6 (5.66%) Symantec
9 5 (4.72%) IBM
9 5 (4.72%) Sophos
9 5 (4.72%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (3.77%) Dell
10 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.83%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.83%) Extreme Networks
11 3 (2.83%) Meraki
11 3 (2.83%) SolarWinds