VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VMware ESXi skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 386 639 647
Rank change year-on-year +253 +8 -157
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 386 485 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 4.40% 2.59% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 256 381 387
10th Percentile £27,500 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £77,715 £81,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware ESXi is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,771 18,701 22,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 15.30% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,001 12,503 15,991
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £49,150 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.24% +3.47% +4.97%

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 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 15 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 10 December 2023. 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 +268 378 £52,170 +4.34% 95
London +322 198 £61,000 +6.09% 23
UK excluding London +124 183 £45,000 -5.26% 75
Work from Home +145 124 £55,000 +10.00% 33
South East +147 73 £42,000 -16.00% 25
Midlands +115 64 £49,565 +6.94% 8
West Midlands +133 56 £47,100 -3.38% 8
South West +72 24 £37,500 -19.35% 13
North of England +100 11 £60,000 +9.09% 25
Yorkshire +76 8 £60,000 -12.43% 10
East Midlands +29 8 £51,250 +13.89%
East of England +65 7 £37,500 -11.76% 3
Scotland +33 5 £52,500 - 3
North West +81 3 £75,000 +36.36% 12
North East +41 1 - - 5

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
1 150 (38.86%) MS Exchange
2 29 (7.51%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.85%) Confluence
4 8 (2.07%) IIS
5 4 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 249 (64.51%) Microsoft 365
2 168 (43.52%) Azure
3 66 (17.10%) Entra ID
4 51 (13.21%) AWS
5 41 (10.62%) IaaS
6 33 (8.55%) PaaS
7 23 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.11%) Nutanix
9 11 (2.85%) Rubrik
10 9 (2.33%) GCP
10 9 (2.33%) SaaS
11 6 (1.55%) Cohesity
11 6 (1.55%) OCI
12 5 (1.30%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.04%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.04%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.04%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.78%) Azure Storage
15 2 (0.52%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 132 (34.20%) WAN
2 115 (29.79%) Wireless
3 109 (28.24%) SD-WAN
4 105 (27.20%) Cisco IOS
5 102 (26.42%) WebEx
6 97 (25.13%) Firewall
7 89 (23.06%) DNS
8 80 (20.73%) DHCP
9 54 (13.99%) VPN
10 39 (10.10%) TCP/IP
11 30 (7.77%) SAN
12 29 (7.51%) SNMP
13 25 (6.48%) HTTP
13 25 (6.48%) LAN
13 25 (6.48%) NGFW
13 25 (6.48%) PBX
13 25 (6.48%) SMTP
13 25 (6.48%) SSL
14 24 (6.22%) FTP
14 24 (6.22%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.66%) MySQL
3 11 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.30%) Power BI
6 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.78%) Big Data
7 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.26%) DB2
9 1 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.26%) GIS
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (3.37%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.85%) JIRA
3 10 (2.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.26%) Git
4 1 (0.26%) MSI
4 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 190 (49.22%) Social Skills
2 23 (5.96%) Telecoms
3 18 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.63%) Finance
5 9 (2.33%) Banking
5 9 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (1.81%) Law
7 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.26%) Advertising
10 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.26%) Military
10 1 (0.26%) Publishing
10 1 (0.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (28.50%) IT Support
2 102 (26.42%) IT Support Specialist
2 102 (26.42%) Support Specialist
3 83 (21.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (15.80%) Support Engineer
5 41 (10.62%) Senior
6 33 (8.55%) Architect
7 26 (6.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 24 (6.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 23 (5.96%) Citrix Architect
9 23 (5.96%) Cloud Architect
10 21 (5.44%) 3rd Line Support
10 21 (5.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
11 20 (5.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (4.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.66%) VMware Engineer
14 17 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support
15 16 (4.15%) 2nd Line Support
15 16 (4.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 16 (4.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.74%) ARM Templates
1 26 (6.74%) YAML
2 25 (6.48%) JSON
3 11 (2.85%) SAML
4 4 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.78%) Kafka
6 2 (0.52%) WSH
7 1 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.26%) REST
7 1 (0.26%) RESTful
7 1 (0.26%) Swagger
7 1 (0.26%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 102 (26.42%) Wiki
2 92 (23.83%) Video Conferencing
3 67 (17.36%) Data Centre
4 31 (8.03%) Public Cloud
5 28 (7.25%) Replication
6 27 (6.99%) Private Cloud
7 24 (6.22%) EFT
8 15 (3.89%) Management Information System
9 14 (3.63%) Clustering
10 9 (2.33%) PKI
11 8 (2.07%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.30%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.78%) EMC VNX
13 3 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.78%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
14 2 (0.52%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 302 (78.24%) Windows
2 153 (39.64%) Windows Server
3 152 (39.38%) Windows 10
4 105 (27.20%) Android
5 68 (17.62%) Linux
6 52 (13.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 35 (9.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (6.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (3.11%) Mac OS
10 10 (2.59%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (1.55%) Windows 8
13 5 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
13 5 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (1.30%) Windows XP
14 4 (1.04%) CentOS
14 4 (1.04%) Unix
14 4 (1.04%) VMS
14 4 (1.04%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.78%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (30.05%) Mobile Device Management
2 113 (29.27%) Business Continuity
3 110 (28.50%) Computer Science
4 102 (26.42%) BCP
4 102 (26.42%) Business Continuity Planning
4 102 (26.42%) Contract Negotiation
5 96 (24.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 91 (23.58%) Application Virtualisation
7 79 (20.47%) ITIL
8 49 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (11.66%) Agile
10 39 (10.10%) CI/CD
11 35 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (8.55%) DevOps
13 29 (7.51%) Migration
14 28 (7.25%) Network Virtualisation
15 27 (6.99%) Network Design
15 27 (6.99%) Server Patching
16 26 (6.74%) Problem Management
17 23 (5.96%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 108 (27.98%) PowerShell
2 15 (3.89%) Bash
3 14 (3.63%) SQL
4 4 (1.04%) Python
5 3 (0.78%) Perl
6 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.52%) VBScript
7 1 (0.26%) C
7 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 140 (36.27%) Degree
2 106 (27.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 102 (26.42%) Master's Degree
4 66 (17.10%) Security Cleared
5 57 (14.77%) SC Cleared
6 22 (5.70%) CCNA
6 22 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (5.70%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (2.85%) MCSE
10 10 (2.59%) CCNP
11 8 (2.07%) MCP
12 7 (1.81%) MCSA
13 4 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.52%) CCENT
15 1 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.77%) SLA
2 8 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.52%) PMO
5 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.26%) QA
System Software
1 276 (71.50%) Active Directory
2 176 (45.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (27.98%) XenApp
4 104 (26.94%) XenDesktop
5 102 (26.42%) Microsoft App-V
6 60 (15.54%) Hyper-V
6 60 (15.54%) vSphere
7 46 (11.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (3.63%) Docker
8 14 (3.63%) Firmware
9 12 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (2.59%) vCloud
10 10 (2.59%) VMware NSX
11 5 (1.30%) BitLocker
11 5 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.04%) KVM
13 2 (0.52%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.26%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 174 (45.08%) SCCM
2 108 (27.98%) vCenter Server
3 91 (23.58%) AirWatch
4 43 (11.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (7.51%) Terraform
6 20 (5.18%) SCOM
7 15 (3.89%) WSUS
8 14 (3.63%) Nagios
9 12 (3.11%) vRealize
10 11 (2.85%) Kubernetes
11 9 (2.33%) Ansible
11 9 (2.33%) Grafana
11 9 (2.33%) McAfee ePO
11 9 (2.33%) Puppet
12 7 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
12 7 (1.81%) NetBackup
13 6 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.30%) FortiGate
14 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 267 (69.17%) VMware
2 220 (56.99%) Microsoft
3 183 (47.41%) Citrix
4 163 (42.23%) Cisco
5 51 (13.21%) Veeam
6 35 (9.07%) Dell
7 31 (8.03%) HP
8 24 (6.22%) Globalscape
9 21 (5.44%) Palo Alto
10 18 (4.66%) NetApp
10 18 (4.66%) SolarWinds
11 17 (4.40%) Juniper
12 13 (3.37%) Apple
12 13 (3.37%) Bloomberg
12 13 (3.37%) EMC
13 12 (3.11%) Symantec
14 11 (2.85%) Aruba
14 11 (2.85%) CheckPoint
14 11 (2.85%) McAfee
15 10 (2.59%) 3PAR