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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 464 626
Rank change year-on-year -80 +162 +64
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 162 508 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.51% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 2.82% 4.22% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 126 332 312
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £45,875 £41,188 £37,214
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £49,875
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +5.26% +5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £60,313
90th Percentile £95,625 £87,500 £74,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% +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 5,745 12,052 15,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 12.15% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,906 9,552 10,272
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £28,000
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 £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £85,000 £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 11 May 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 11 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
England -121 148 £60,000 +14.29% 105
UK excluding London +12 92 £55,000 +13.40% 89
London -33 64 £72,500 +7.41% 22
Work from Home +53 52 £60,000 +11.11% 43
South East +89 46 £55,000 +13.40% 45
South West +60 17 £60,000 +20.00% 17
North of England +6 12 £48,750 -7.14% 11
Wales +43 8 £48,302 +20.76%
North West -8 7 £35,000 -41.67% 9
East of England +18 6 £76,250 +134.62% 2
Yorkshire +24 5 £63,750 +27.50% 2
Midlands +18 3 £55,000 +50.68% 16
East Midlands - 2 £55,000 - 6
West Midlands +11 1 - - 9

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 35 (21.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.17%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.56%) Apache
3 9 (5.56%) nginx
4 3 (1.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.62%) Confluence
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (6.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (2.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 84 (51.85%) Azure
2 51 (31.48%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (20.99%) AWS
4 24 (14.81%) Entra ID
5 21 (12.96%) IaaS
6 18 (11.11%) SaaS
7 17 (10.49%) PaaS
8 10 (6.17%) GCP
9 8 (4.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (3.70%) Nutanix
10 6 (3.70%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.47%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (1.23%) GitHub
14 2 (1.23%) OneDrive
14 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
15 1 (0.62%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 71 (43.83%) Firewall
2 69 (42.59%) DNS
3 62 (38.27%) DHCP
4 49 (30.25%) SAN
5 29 (17.90%) VLAN
6 20 (12.35%) SMTP
6 20 (12.35%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (11.73%) NAS
8 17 (10.49%) Network Security
8 17 (10.49%) VPN
9 15 (9.26%) WAN
10 14 (8.64%) VSAN
11 13 (8.02%) MPLS
12 12 (7.41%) Cisco IOS
12 12 (7.41%) FTP
12 12 (7.41%) IPv4
12 12 (7.41%) PBX
12 12 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
12 12 (7.41%) Structured Cabling
13 10 (6.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.64%) 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
6 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.09%) Git
2 5 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (2.47%) GitLab
3 4 (2.47%) JIRA
4 1 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.84%) Finance
3 24 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (9.26%) Banking
4 15 (9.26%) Manufacturing
5 11 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (6.17%) Legal
7 7 (4.32%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.32%) Retail
8 3 (1.85%) Games
9 2 (1.23%) Law
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) French Language
10 1 (0.62%) German Language
10 1 (0.62%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (30.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (18.52%) Senior
3 25 (15.43%) Support Engineer
4 18 (11.11%) Administrator
5 16 (9.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) Systems Administrator
7 14 (8.64%) Windows Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Security Engineer
9 12 (7.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
9 12 (7.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 12 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
10 11 (6.79%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (6.79%) IT Engineer
11 10 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (6.17%) Coordinator
11 10 (6.17%) Help Desk Coordinator
11 10 (6.17%) Server Engineer
12 9 (5.56%) Consultant
12 9 (5.56%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.70%) REST
1 6 (3.70%) SAML
2 5 (3.09%) GraphQL
2 5 (3.09%) Middleware
2 5 (3.09%) Web Services
3 4 (2.47%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.23%) YAML
5 1 (0.62%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.62%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.52%) Clustering
2 16 (9.88%) Video Conferencing
3 15 (9.26%) Data Centre
4 12 (7.41%) PKI
5 10 (6.17%) CCTV
6 9 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 9 (5.56%) Replication
7 8 (4.94%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (3.09%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.47%) Hedge funds
10 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.47%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.85%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 141 (87.04%) Windows
2 112 (69.14%) Windows Server
3 79 (48.77%) Linux
4 31 (19.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (17.28%) Windows 10
6 23 (14.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (9.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (7.41%) Android
9 6 (3.70%) CentOS
9 6 (3.70%) Ubuntu
10 5 (3.09%) Mac OS
10 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.23%) Debian
12 2 (1.23%) SUSE
12 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (18.52%) High Availability
4 27 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (16.05%) Incident Management
5 26 (16.05%) ITIL
6 24 (14.81%) Virtual Environments
7 17 (10.49%) Customer Service
7 17 (10.49%) Time Management
8 15 (9.26%) ERP
9 14 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (8.02%) Business Continuity
10 13 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (8.02%) Patch Management
10 13 (8.02%) Task Automation
11 12 (7.41%) Containerisation
12 11 (6.79%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (6.79%) Security Hardening
13 10 (6.17%) DevOps
13 10 (6.17%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 27 (16.67%) SQL
3 23 (14.20%) Python
4 18 (11.11%) Bash
5 1 (0.62%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.90%) Degree
3 27 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 21 (12.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (11.73%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (9.26%) CCNA
7 12 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
7 12 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (6.17%) Azure Certification
9 7 (4.32%) CCNP
10 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared
11 5 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.47%) CCSE
12 4 (2.47%) CCSM
12 4 (2.47%) CISSP
13 3 (1.85%) MCSA
14 2 (1.23%) MCP
14 2 (1.23%) MCSE
15 1 (0.62%) Dell Certification
15 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.47%) SLA
2 3 (1.85%) GDPR
2 3 (1.85%) Government Security Classifications
2 3 (1.85%) HIPAA
2 3 (1.85%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 116 (71.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (59.26%) Active Directory
3 56 (34.57%) Hyper-V
4 40 (24.69%) vSphere
5 22 (13.58%) Docker
5 22 (13.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (6.79%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (4.94%) BitLocker
7 8 (4.94%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (4.94%) Terminal Services
7 8 (4.94%) VMware NSX
8 6 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (2.47%) Firmware
10 3 (1.85%) Squid
11 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.62%) NFS
12 1 (0.62%) vCloud
12 1 (0.62%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 44 (27.16%) vCenter Server
2 43 (26.54%) Ansible
3 27 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (13.58%) SCCM
5 19 (11.73%) Puppet
6 18 (11.11%) Kubernetes
7 17 (10.49%) Terraform
8 14 (8.64%) vMotion
8 14 (8.64%) WSUS
9 10 (6.17%) Nagios
10 9 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (4.32%) PowerCLI
11 7 (4.32%) vRealize
12 5 (3.09%) SCOM
13 4 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (2.47%) Graylog
13 4 (2.47%) Rundeck
13 4 (2.47%) VxRail
13 4 (2.47%) ZENworks
14 3 (1.85%) Avamar
Vendors
1 150 (92.59%) VMware
2 104 (64.20%) Microsoft
3 51 (31.48%) Veeam
4 47 (29.01%) Cisco
5 37 (22.84%) Citrix
6 19 (11.73%) HP
7 13 (8.02%) NetApp
8 11 (6.79%) Fortinet
8 11 (6.79%) Palo Alto
9 10 (6.17%) Dell
10 9 (5.56%) EMC
11 7 (4.32%) CheckPoint
11 7 (4.32%) Extreme Networks
11 7 (4.32%) Meraki
12 6 (3.70%) Arista
12 6 (3.70%) Google
12 6 (3.70%) ServiceNow
12 6 (3.70%) Sophos
12 6 (3.70%) Symantec
13 5 (3.09%) Aruba