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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 552 748
Rank change year-on-year +18 +196 -146
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 335 368 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 3.54% 2.86% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 236 306 435
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,188 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,875 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +7.78% -3.23% +9.41%

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 9,464 12,848 30,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 15.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 8,994 15,471
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,293 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 17 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 26 July 2024. 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 +15 324 £51,000 +6.25% 41
UK excluding London -42 246 £48,500 +7.78% 39
Work from Home +53 117 £50,000 - 20
London +69 87 £65,000 +13.04% 8
South West +31 60 £50,500 +22.42% 5
North of England +8 58 £45,000 -4.26% 12
South East -29 50 £48,500 +14.79% 13
Midlands -21 41 £34,000 -31.40% 3
West Midlands +10 40 £34,000 -13.87% 3
Yorkshire +61 36 £45,000 +5.88% 7
East of England -18 27 £49,500 +32.00% 1
North West -17 14 £51,750 +10.11% 4
North East -6 8 £40,887 - 1
Scotland -40 7 £52,500 -
Northern Ireland +19 2 £34,628 -28.97% 5
Wales - 2 £45,000 -
East Midlands -41 1 £55,000 +4.76%

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 73 (21.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (11.04%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.39%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.60%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 147 (43.88%) Microsoft 365
2 141 (42.09%) Azure
3 91 (27.16%) Entra ID
4 31 (9.25%) AWS
5 24 (7.16%) OneDrive
6 13 (3.88%) Nutanix
7 11 (3.28%) SaaS
8 9 (2.69%) IaaS
9 7 (2.09%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.49%) GCP
11 4 (1.19%) Cohesity
11 4 (1.19%) OCI
11 4 (1.19%) PaaS
12 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.90%) Azure Stack
13 2 (0.60%) GitHub
13 2 (0.60%) WhatsApp
14 1 (0.30%) Amazon S3
14 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
14 1 (0.30%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 116 (34.63%) Firewall
2 89 (26.57%) DNS
3 64 (19.10%) DHCP
4 61 (18.21%) SAN
5 59 (17.61%) LAN
6 50 (14.93%) VPN
7 49 (14.63%) WAN
8 34 (10.15%) NAS
9 32 (9.55%) VSAN
10 29 (8.66%) TCP/IP
10 29 (8.66%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (7.46%) VLAN
11 25 (7.46%) Wireless
12 23 (6.87%) Internet
12 23 (6.87%) Remote Desktop
13 20 (5.97%) MPLS
13 20 (5.97%) VoIP
14 14 (4.18%) iSCSI
15 12 (3.58%) Fibre Channel
15 12 (3.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.64%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.28%) MySQL
3 8 (2.39%) DB2
4 4 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.90%) Redis
5 3 (0.90%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (4.78%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) GitLab
3 4 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 94 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 37 (11.04%) Finance
3 27 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.97%) Law
5 17 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.88%) Aerospace
8 12 (3.58%) Retail
9 9 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.49%) Legal
13 3 (0.90%) Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Games
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
13 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (34.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (18.21%) Support Engineer
3 39 (11.64%) Infrastructure Support
4 37 (11.04%) Senior
5 31 (9.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 30 (8.96%) Administrator
7 28 (8.36%) IT Engineer
8 24 (7.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (7.16%) VMware Engineer
9 21 (6.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 21 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.37%) IT Support
10 18 (5.37%) Project Manager
10 18 (5.37%) VMWare Administrator
11 17 (5.07%) Systems Administrator
11 17 (5.07%) Systems Engineer
11 17 (5.07%) VMware Support Engineer
12 16 (4.78%) Network Engineer
12 16 (4.78%) Storage Engineer
13 15 (4.48%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.58%) REST
2 8 (2.39%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (1.49%) HTML
4 3 (0.90%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.90%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (0.90%) CSS
4 3 (0.90%) Flask
4 3 (0.90%) jQuery
4 3 (0.90%) JSON
4 3 (0.90%) Plotly
5 2 (0.60%) .NET
5 2 (0.60%) ADO
5 2 (0.60%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.60%) Laravel
5 2 (0.60%) Node.js
5 2 (0.60%) RESTful
5 2 (0.60%) Software Packaging
5 2 (0.60%) Vue
5 2 (0.60%) XML
5 2 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (22.39%) Data Centre
2 58 (17.31%) Clustering
3 41 (12.24%) Replication
4 36 (10.75%) PKI
5 28 (8.36%) Public Cloud
6 19 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 13 (3.88%) EMC VNX
9 11 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (3.28%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.39%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.39%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.79%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.79%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.49%) EFT
13 4 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.90%) Client/Server
14 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 252 (75.22%) Windows
2 195 (58.21%) Windows Server
3 96 (28.66%) Linux
4 75 (22.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 48 (14.33%) Windows 10
6 40 (11.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 38 (11.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 32 (9.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (4.48%) CentOS
10 13 (3.88%) Ubuntu
11 8 (2.39%) Rocky
11 8 (2.39%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (2.09%) Unix
13 6 (1.79%) Mac OS
14 4 (1.19%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.90%) Debian
15 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.60%) SUSE
16 2 (0.60%) VMS
16 2 (0.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (36.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 66 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (14.33%) ITIL
3 48 (14.33%) Mentoring
4 38 (11.34%) Agile
5 34 (10.15%) Change Management
5 34 (10.15%) Project Management
6 28 (8.36%) Customer Service
7 26 (7.76%) High Availability
8 24 (7.16%) Service Management
9 23 (6.87%) Migration
10 22 (6.57%) Load Balancing
10 22 (6.57%) Problem Management
11 21 (6.27%) Proactive Monitoring
12 20 (5.97%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (5.67%) Business Continuity
13 19 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (5.67%) Preventative Maintenance
14 17 (5.07%) Customer Requirements
14 17 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 91 (27.16%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.06%) SQL
3 17 (5.07%) ActionScript
3 17 (5.07%) VB
4 13 (3.88%) Python
5 12 (3.58%) Java
6 10 (2.99%) Bash
7 8 (2.39%) C
7 8 (2.39%) C#
8 5 (1.49%) C++
8 5 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.90%) Perl
9 3 (0.90%) RPG
10 2 (0.60%) Lua
10 2 (0.60%) PHP
10 2 (0.60%) Ruby
10 2 (0.60%) Tcl
10 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 42 (12.54%) Degree
3 29 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.78%) APMP
7 14 (4.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 12 (3.58%) CCNA
8 12 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (2.99%) CCNP
9 10 (2.99%) MCSA
10 9 (2.69%) MCSE
11 8 (2.39%) A+ Certification
12 6 (1.79%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.49%) HND
13 5 (1.49%) RHCA
13 5 (1.49%) RHCE
13 5 (1.49%) RHCSA
13 5 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.67%) SLA
2 6 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (1.79%) GDPR
3 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
4 1 (0.30%) PMO
4 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 237 (70.75%) Active Directory
2 216 (64.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 85 (25.37%) Hyper-V
4 78 (23.28%) vSphere
5 21 (6.27%) VMware NSX
6 18 (5.37%) XenApp
7 17 (5.07%) OpenSSH
8 15 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (3.88%) Firmware
9 13 (3.88%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (3.28%) Docker
11 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (2.09%) VMware Server
13 4 (1.19%) KVM
13 4 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (1.19%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.60%) NFS
Systems Management
1 135 (40.30%) vCenter Server
2 55 (16.42%) SCCM
3 48 (14.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (10.75%) WSUS
5 30 (8.96%) Ansible
6 26 (7.76%) SCOM
7 23 (6.87%) Failover Clustering
8 19 (5.67%) PowerCLI
9 18 (5.37%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (5.07%) EMC NetWorker
10 17 (5.07%) IBM BigFix
11 16 (4.78%) Nagios
12 15 (4.48%) Microsoft Clustering
13 13 (3.88%) Kubernetes
14 12 (3.58%) Puppet
15 10 (2.99%) Terraform
16 7 (2.09%) ZABBIX
17 6 (1.79%) Tivoli Identity Manager
18 5 (1.49%) NetBackup
18 5 (1.49%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 318 (94.93%) VMware
2 142 (42.39%) Microsoft
3 77 (22.99%) Cisco
4 71 (21.19%) Veeam
5 41 (12.24%) Citrix
6 31 (9.25%) Dell
6 31 (9.25%) IBM
7 25 (7.46%) HP
8 23 (6.87%) NetApp
8 23 (6.87%) Red Hat
9 21 (6.27%) SolarWinds
10 20 (5.97%) EMC
10 20 (5.97%) ServiceNow
11 18 (5.37%) Commvault
11 18 (5.37%) Juniper
12 16 (4.78%) Oracle
12 16 (4.78%) Ruckus Wireless
13 12 (3.58%) Meraki
14 11 (3.28%) Sun
15 10 (2.99%) Palo Alto