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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 493 501
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -16
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 91 283 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.40% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 2.16% 3.23% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 70 225 216
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £44,052 £32,996 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £59,688 £59,000 £54,063
90th Percentile £65,250 £66,750 £61,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £49,375
% change year-on-year +9.52% +6.33% +3.95%

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 4,209 8,771 9,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.60% 12.28% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 7,034 5,753
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £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 £67,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 17 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 17 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 +73 45 £50,000 +3.09% 43
South West +62 17 £60,000 +20.00% 17
North of England -14 13 £48,750 -2.50% 10
Wales +44 7 £47,500 +18.75%
North West -10 7 £35,000 -41.67% 8
East of England +24 6 £76,250 +134.62% 1
Yorkshire +20 6 £63,750 +27.50% 2
Midlands +14 3 £55,000 +50.68% 15
East Midlands - 2 £55,000 - 7
West Midlands +7 1 - - 7
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 22 (24.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.40%) Apache
3 4 (4.40%) nginx
4 2 (2.20%) Confluence
4 2 (2.20%) IIS
5 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.25%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (21.98%) AWS
4 8 (8.79%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.79%) IaaS
5 7 (7.69%) GCP
6 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.40%) SaaS
8 3 (3.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.20%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub
10 1 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (51.65%) Firewall
2 41 (45.05%) DNS
3 37 (40.66%) DHCP
4 27 (29.67%) SAN
5 16 (17.58%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (14.29%) MPLS
6 13 (14.29%) VLAN
7 12 (13.19%) NAS
8 11 (12.09%) Remote Desktop
9 10 (10.99%) VoIP
9 10 (10.99%) WAN
10 8 (8.79%) SMTP
10 8 (8.79%) VPN
10 8 (8.79%) VSAN
11 7 (7.69%) LAN
12 6 (6.59%) Network Security
12 6 (6.59%) SD-WAN
13 5 (5.49%) iSCSI
14 4 (4.40%) Cisco Nexus
15 3 (3.30%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.40%) MariaDB
3 4 (4.40%) MySQL
3 4 (4.40%) RDBMS
3 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (13.19%) Manufacturing
4 10 (10.99%) Legal
5 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Retail
6 2 (2.20%) Finance
6 2 (2.20%) Games
6 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (20.88%) Support Engineer
3 15 (16.48%) Administrator
4 14 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
5 12 (13.19%) Linux Administrator
5 12 (13.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 11 (12.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 11 (12.09%) Coordinator
6 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (12.09%) Senior
7 10 (10.99%) Help Desk Coordinator
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Support Specialist
10 6 (6.59%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Virtualisation Specialist
10 6 (6.59%) VMware Specialist
10 6 (6.59%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.40%) SAML
2 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.68%) Clustering
2 14 (15.38%) PKI
3 13 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (10.99%) CCTV
5 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (5.49%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.40%) Replication
8 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (83.52%) Windows
2 62 (68.13%) Windows Server
3 40 (43.96%) Linux
4 15 (16.48%) Windows 10
5 13 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (8.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (6.59%) CentOS
7 6 (6.59%) Ubuntu
7 6 (6.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (5.49%) Mac OS
9 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.20%) Debian
10 2 (2.20%) SUSE
11 1 (1.10%) Unix
11 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.98%) Virtual Environments
4 19 (20.88%) High Availability
5 16 (17.58%) Time Management
6 15 (16.48%) ERP
7 14 (15.38%) Incident Management
8 12 (13.19%) ITIL
8 12 (13.19%) Task Automation
9 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (9.89%) Containerisation
10 9 (9.89%) Customer Service
11 8 (8.79%) Service Management
12 7 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
12 7 (7.69%) Machine Learning
12 7 (7.69%) Security Hardening
12 7 (7.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 6 (6.59%) Application Virtualisation
13 6 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (31.87%) PowerShell
2 17 (18.68%) SQL
3 10 (10.99%) Bash
4 8 (8.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.67%) DV Cleared
3 13 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (8.79%) Degree
5 7 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.49%) CCNP
7 5 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.40%) CCNA
8 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.20%) MCP
10 2 (2.20%) MCSA
10 2 (2.20%) MCSE
11 1 (1.10%) CCSE
11 1 (1.10%) CCSM
11 1 (1.10%) CISSP
11 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.10%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) SLA
2 3 (3.30%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 67 (73.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 57 (62.64%) Active Directory
3 30 (32.97%) Hyper-V
4 25 (27.47%) vSphere
5 19 (20.88%) Docker
6 9 (9.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (8.79%) BitLocker
7 8 (8.79%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (8.79%) Terminal Services
7 8 (8.79%) VMware NSX
8 5 (5.49%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (2.20%) Firmware
11 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (1.10%) NFS
11 1 (1.10%) Squid
11 1 (1.10%) vCloud
11 1 (1.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 34 (37.36%) vCenter Server
2 27 (29.67%) Ansible
3 18 (19.78%) Puppet
4 14 (15.38%) Terraform
4 14 (15.38%) vMotion
5 13 (14.29%) Kubernetes
6 9 (9.89%) Nagios
7 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (7.69%) PowerCLI
8 7 (7.69%) vRealize
9 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (4.40%) VxRail
10 3 (3.30%) Avamar
10 3 (3.30%) Graylog
10 3 (3.30%) Progress Chef
10 3 (3.30%) Rundeck
11 2 (2.20%) SCOM
11 2 (2.20%) ZENworks
12 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
12 1 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 88 (96.70%) VMware
2 60 (65.93%) Microsoft
3 31 (34.07%) Veeam
4 18 (19.78%) Citrix
5 16 (17.58%) HP
6 13 (14.29%) Cisco
7 9 (9.89%) Dell
8 6 (6.59%) Google
8 6 (6.59%) Symantec
9 5 (5.49%) Sophos
9 5 (5.49%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (4.40%) CheckPoint
10 4 (4.40%) EMC
11 3 (3.30%) Aruba
11 3 (3.30%) IBM
11 3 (3.30%) Juniper
11 3 (3.30%) Meraki
11 3 (3.30%) NetApp
11 3 (3.30%) PagerDuty
11 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds