Hybrid/Remote VMware ESXi Job Trends

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 348 393
Rank change year-on-year -31 +45 +129
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 21 47 162
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.36% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 1.51% 2.28% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 14 46 133
10th Percentile - £44,956 £36,100
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,297 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £59,271 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £92,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.00%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,391 2,064 4,306
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 15.97% 13.88%
Number of salaries quoted 996 1,565 3,648
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,742 £83,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware ESXi and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

VMware ESXi salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) DNS
2 9 (42.86%) DHCP
3 6 (28.57%) SAN
4 5 (23.81%) VPN
5 4 (19.05%) Firewall
6 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) VSAN
7 1 (4.76%) BGP
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.76%) MPLS
7 1 (4.76%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security Manager
5 1 (4.76%) NOC Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (95.24%) Windows
2 13 (61.90%) Windows Server
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (14.29%) Linux
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (28.57%) Security Operations
6 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 3 (14.29%) SIEM
8 2 (9.52%) Change Management
8 2 (9.52%) ITIL
8 2 (9.52%) Storage Management
9 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (4.76%) Network Monitoring
9 1 (4.76%) Presales
9 1 (4.76%) Storage Virtualisation
9 1 (4.76%) Task Automation
9 1 (4.76%) Virtual Environments
9 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) Bicep
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) CCSE
3 1 (4.76%) CCSM
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (28.57%) DFS Replication
4 5 (23.81%) vSphere
5 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
6 1 (4.76%) Docker
6 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (4.76%) KVM
6 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) vCenter Server
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (28.57%) SCCM
4 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) Terraform
5 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.76%) Nessus
5 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 6 (28.57%) 3PAR
3 6 (28.57%) NetApp
3 6 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 6 (28.57%) Veeam
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk