VMware ESXi Jobs

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 444 629
Rank change year-on-year -84 +185 +76
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 156 525 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 2.90% 4.28% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 120 340 322
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,688 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £76,563 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £77,715
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% +3.19% +4.44%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,388 12,269 15,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 12.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,933 9,741 10,518
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,915
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -99 142 £60,000 +14.29% 88
UK excluding London +23 86 £55,000 +13.40% 80
London -54 64 £72,500 +7.41% 11
Work from Home +75 49 £60,000 +11.11% 50
South East +90 42 £55,000 +13.40% 33
South West +70 17 £60,000 +20.00% 16
North of England +26 10 £45,000 -10.00% 14
Wales +44 8 £48,302 +20.76% 2
East of England +37 6 £76,250 +134.62% 2
Yorkshire +28 5 £63,750 +34.21% 2
North West +20 5 £35,000 -42.86% 12
Midlands +15 3 £45,750 +25.34% 15
West Midlands +4 2 £36,500 - 9
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 6

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (19.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.05%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.77%) Apache
3 9 (5.77%) nginx
4 2 (1.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.92%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 79 (50.64%) Azure
2 51 (32.69%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (19.23%) AWS
4 27 (17.31%) Entra ID
5 19 (12.18%) IaaS
6 18 (11.54%) SaaS
7 17 (10.90%) PaaS
8 8 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (5.13%) GCP
9 5 (3.21%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.56%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.56%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.92%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.28%) GitHub
12 2 (1.28%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.64%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 69 (44.23%) DNS
2 68 (43.59%) Firewall
3 62 (39.74%) DHCP
4 47 (30.13%) SAN
5 33 (21.15%) VLAN
6 22 (14.10%) SMTP
7 20 (12.82%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (11.54%) NAS
9 17 (10.90%) VPN
10 15 (9.62%) Cisco IOS
10 15 (9.62%) FTP
10 15 (9.62%) IPv4
10 15 (9.62%) Network Security
10 15 (9.62%) PBX
10 15 (9.62%) Structured Cabling
10 15 (9.62%) WAN
11 14 (8.97%) VSAN
12 13 (8.33%) MPLS
13 11 (7.05%) Remote Desktop
14 10 (6.41%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.56%) MariaDB
3 4 (2.56%) MySQL
3 4 (2.56%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (4.49%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.21%) Git
2 5 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (2.56%) GitLab
3 4 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
General
1 50 (32.05%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.00%) Finance
3 22 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.62%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.97%) Banking
6 10 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.41%) Legal
7 7 (4.49%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.49%) Retail
8 2 (1.28%) Games
8 2 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (30.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (17.95%) Senior
3 26 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 16 (10.26%) Administrator
5 15 (9.62%) IT Engineer
5 15 (9.62%) Systems Administrator
6 14 (8.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (8.33%) Security Engineer
8 12 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
8 12 (7.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 12 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
9 11 (7.05%) VMware Engineer
10 10 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (6.41%) Coordinator
10 10 (6.41%) Help Desk Coordinator
10 10 (6.41%) IT Support
11 9 (5.77%) Consultant
11 9 (5.77%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 9 (5.77%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.85%) REST
2 5 (3.21%) GraphQL
2 5 (3.21%) Middleware
2 5 (3.21%) Web Services
3 4 (2.56%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.56%) SAML
4 2 (1.28%) YAML
5 1 (0.64%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.64%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.67%) Clustering
2 16 (10.26%) Video Conferencing
3 14 (8.97%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.41%) CCTV
4 10 (6.41%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (5.13%) PKI
6 8 (5.13%) Private Cloud
6 8 (5.13%) Replication
7 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.56%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.56%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.92%) BYOD
9 3 (1.92%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 134 (85.90%) Windows
2 104 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 75 (48.08%) Linux
4 31 (19.87%) Windows 10
5 28 (17.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (9.62%) Android
8 13 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (3.85%) Ubuntu
10 5 (3.21%) CentOS
10 5 (3.21%) Mac OS
11 4 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (1.28%) Debian
13 2 (1.28%) SUSE
13 2 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (19.87%) ITIL
4 27 (17.31%) High Availability
4 27 (17.31%) Incident Management
5 26 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (14.10%) Virtual Environments
7 17 (10.90%) Customer Service
8 16 (10.26%) Time Management
9 15 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (8.97%) ERP
11 13 (8.33%) Containerisation
11 13 (8.33%) Patch Management
12 12 (7.69%) Business Continuity
12 12 (7.69%) Change Control
12 12 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (7.69%) Task Automation
13 10 (6.41%) DevOps
13 10 (6.41%) Infrastructure Management
13 10 (6.41%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 66 (42.31%) PowerShell
2 27 (17.31%) SQL
3 26 (16.67%) Python
4 18 (11.54%) Bash
5 1 (0.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (21.15%) Degree
2 28 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 24 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 23 (14.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (10.26%) CCNA
7 15 (9.62%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (5.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (5.13%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.21%) CCNP
10 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (3.21%) SC Cleared
11 4 (2.56%) CCSE
11 4 (2.56%) CCSM
11 4 (2.56%) CISSP
12 2 (1.28%) MCSA
13 1 (0.64%) Dell Certification
13 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.64%) MCP
13 1 (0.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.92%) GDPR
1 3 (1.92%) Government Security Classifications
1 3 (1.92%) HIPAA
1 3 (1.92%) SLA
1 3 (1.92%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 111 (71.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 92 (58.97%) Active Directory
3 54 (34.62%) Hyper-V
4 37 (23.72%) vSphere
5 21 (13.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (12.82%) Docker
7 11 (7.05%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (4.49%) BitLocker
8 7 (4.49%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (4.49%) Terminal Services
8 7 (4.49%) VMware NSX
9 6 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (2.56%) Firmware
11 3 (1.92%) Squid
12 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.64%) NFS
13 1 (0.64%) vCloud
13 1 (0.64%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (27.56%) vCenter Server
2 40 (25.64%) Ansible
3 26 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (16.03%) SCCM
5 17 (10.90%) Puppet
5 17 (10.90%) Terraform
5 17 (10.90%) WSUS
6 16 (10.26%) Kubernetes
7 12 (7.69%) vMotion
8 9 (5.77%) Nagios
9 6 (3.85%) PowerCLI
9 6 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (3.85%) vRealize
10 4 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.56%) Graylog
10 4 (2.56%) Rundeck
10 4 (2.56%) SCOM
10 4 (2.56%) VxRail
10 4 (2.56%) ZENworks
11 3 (1.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 141 (90.38%) VMware
2 100 (64.10%) Microsoft
3 49 (31.41%) Cisco
3 49 (31.41%) Veeam
4 37 (23.72%) Citrix
5 17 (10.90%) HP
6 12 (7.69%) NetApp
7 11 (7.05%) Palo Alto
8 10 (6.41%) Dell
8 10 (6.41%) Fortinet
9 8 (5.13%) EMC
10 7 (4.49%) CheckPoint
10 7 (4.49%) Extreme Networks
10 7 (4.49%) Meraki
10 7 (4.49%) ServiceNow
11 6 (3.85%) Arista
11 6 (3.85%) Sophos
12 5 (3.21%) Aruba
12 5 (3.21%) Google
12 5 (3.21%) Symantec