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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 533 545
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 +220
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 162 410 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 2.44% 3.57% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 124 287 330
10th Percentile £33,028 £31,250 £30,950
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +9.38% +1.05%
75th Percentile £68,125 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £81,250 £71,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -

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 6,640 11,500 13,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.03% 11.01% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,903 8,792 9,589
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,756 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 10 July 2025.

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 July 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 -66 153 £55,000 +4.76% 80
UK excluding London +10 116 £50,000 +3.09% 69
South East +79 56 £47,500 -2.06% 23
London +11 42 £70,000 +7.69% 17
Work from Home +9 42 £50,000 -4.76% 28
North of England -19 22 £47,500 +5.56% 12
South West +56 19 £60,000 +20.00% 16
North West +15 17 £41,250 -25.00% 8
Midlands +52 13 £56,250 +54.11% 9
East Midlands +57 11 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Yorkshire -1 5 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Wales +34 4 £47,500 +18.75%
West Midlands +19 2 £50,000 +36.99% 6
Scotland +89 1 - - 4
East of England 0 1 £62,500 +66.67% 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 32 (19.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.09%) IIS
4 2 (1.23%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) Confluence
4 2 (1.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (2.47%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (54.32%) Azure
2 46 (28.40%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (17.28%) AWS
4 15 (9.26%) IaaS
5 13 (8.02%) Entra ID
6 11 (6.79%) GCP
6 11 (6.79%) SaaS
7 9 (5.56%) PaaS
8 6 (3.70%) Nutanix
8 6 (3.70%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.47%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.85%) GitHub
11 3 (1.85%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 60 (37.04%) Firewall
2 57 (35.19%) DHCP
2 57 (35.19%) DNS
3 42 (25.93%) SAN
4 21 (12.96%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (11.73%) VLAN
6 17 (10.49%) VPN
7 15 (9.26%) NAS
7 15 (9.26%) Network Security
8 14 (8.64%) WAN
9 13 (8.02%) MPLS
10 12 (7.41%) Ethernet
10 12 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
10 12 (7.41%) VoIP
11 11 (6.79%) Modbus
11 11 (6.79%) MQTT
12 10 (6.17%) SD-WAN
13 9 (5.56%) TCP/IP
14 8 (4.94%) LAN
14 8 (4.94%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.47%) MariaDB
3 4 (2.47%) MySQL
3 4 (2.47%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.23%) Power BI
5 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.85%) Git
2 3 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.81%) Manufacturing
3 23 (14.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (10.49%) Finance
5 12 (7.41%) Banking
6 11 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (6.17%) Legal
8 5 (3.09%) Aerospace
8 5 (3.09%) Military
9 4 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.85%) Games
10 3 (1.85%) Retail
10 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.23%) Law
11 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (17.28%) Support Engineer
3 21 (12.96%) Senior
4 18 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
5 17 (10.49%) Administrator
6 15 (9.26%) Windows Engineer
7 14 (8.64%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Coordinator
8 13 (8.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Linux Administrator
8 13 (8.02%) Systems Administrator
9 12 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
10 11 (6.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 10 (6.17%) Help Desk Coordinator
11 10 (6.17%) IT Engineer
11 10 (6.17%) IT Support
11 10 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.79%) SAML
2 6 (3.70%) .NET
2 6 (3.70%) CSS
3 4 (2.47%) REST
4 3 (1.85%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.85%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.85%) Middleware
5 2 (1.23%) Web Services
5 2 (1.23%) YAML
6 1 (0.62%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.37%) Clustering
2 18 (11.11%) PKI
3 16 (9.88%) Data Centre
3 16 (9.88%) Video Conferencing
4 11 (6.79%) Biopharmaceutical
4 11 (6.79%) CCTV
4 11 (6.79%) Industry 4.0
4 11 (6.79%) IoT
4 11 (6.79%) Operational Technology
4 11 (6.79%) Renewable Energy
4 11 (6.79%) SCADA
5 8 (4.94%) Replication
6 7 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.47%) Hedge funds
9 4 (2.47%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 126 (77.78%) Windows
2 114 (70.37%) Windows Server
3 72 (44.44%) Linux
4 37 (22.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (12.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (9.26%) Windows 10
8 7 (4.32%) Mac OS
9 6 (3.70%) CentOS
9 6 (3.70%) Ubuntu
9 6 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 4 (2.47%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.23%) AIX
12 2 (1.23%) Debian
12 2 (1.23%) SUSE
12 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (35.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 39 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (19.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 30 (18.52%) Virtual Environments
5 25 (15.43%) High Availability
6 24 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 21 (12.96%) ITIL
7 21 (12.96%) Project Delivery
8 20 (12.35%) ERP
9 18 (11.11%) Incident Management
10 17 (10.49%) Mentoring
11 16 (9.88%) Migration
12 15 (9.26%) Patch Management
13 14 (8.64%) Customer Service
13 14 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (8.64%) Time Management
14 13 (8.02%) Containerisation
15 12 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (7.41%) Network Design
15 12 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.51%) PowerShell
2 26 (16.05%) SQL
3 19 (11.73%) Python
4 16 (9.88%) Bash
5 6 (3.70%) C#
5 6 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.23%) Java
6 2 (1.23%) Korn
6 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (20.37%) Degree
2 31 (19.14%) Security Cleared
3 25 (15.43%) DV Cleared
4 19 (11.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (8.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (6.79%) Azure Certification
6 11 (6.79%) Chartered Engineer
6 11 (6.79%) HNC
6 11 (6.79%) HND
7 10 (6.17%) CCNA
7 10 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (4.32%) SC Cleared
9 5 (3.09%) CCNP
9 5 (3.09%) MCSA
9 5 (3.09%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.23%) ACMT
11 2 (1.23%) Dell Certification
11 2 (1.23%) MCP
11 2 (1.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.70%) SLA
2 3 (1.85%) GDPR
2 3 (1.85%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.85%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 119 (73.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 92 (56.79%) Active Directory
3 49 (30.25%) Hyper-V
4 43 (26.54%) vSphere
5 26 (16.05%) Docker
6 16 (9.88%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (4.94%) BitLocker
7 8 (4.94%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (4.94%) Terminal Services
7 8 (4.94%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (3.09%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.47%) Firmware
9 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.23%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.62%) NFS
11 1 (0.62%) vCloud
11 1 (0.62%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 41 (25.31%) vCenter Server
2 38 (23.46%) Ansible
3 25 (15.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (13.58%) Kubernetes
5 18 (11.11%) Terraform
6 14 (8.64%) vMotion
7 13 (8.02%) Puppet
8 11 (6.79%) Functional Safety
9 10 (6.17%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (4.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (4.32%) PowerCLI
10 7 (4.32%) SCCM
10 7 (4.32%) vRealize
11 6 (3.70%) Nagios
12 5 (3.09%) SCOM
13 4 (2.47%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (2.47%) ZENworks
14 2 (1.23%) Autotask
14 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
14 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 155 (95.68%) VMware
2 104 (64.20%) Microsoft
3 43 (26.54%) Veeam
4 31 (19.14%) Cisco
5 23 (14.20%) Citrix
6 18 (11.11%) HP
7 11 (6.79%) AVEVA
7 11 (6.79%) NetApp
7 11 (6.79%) Rockwell
7 11 (6.79%) Siemens
8 8 (4.94%) Meraki
8 8 (4.94%) Sophos
9 7 (4.32%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.32%) Ubiquiti
10 6 (3.70%) Dell
10 6 (3.70%) EMC
10 6 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
10 6 (3.70%) Google
10 6 (3.70%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.70%) Symantec