VMware ESXi Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 521 634
Rank change year-on-year +83 +113 -167
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 158 165 199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.38% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 3.62% 2.55% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 129 135 158
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,316 £61,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £80,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,368 6,473 12,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.94% 15.00% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,491 4,751 7,595
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

VMware ESXi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware ESXi trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware ESXi.

VMware ESXi salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

VMware ESXi salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 71 (44.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (19.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.53%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.90%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (1.90%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 102 (64.56%) Azure
2 82 (51.90%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (27.85%) Entra ID
4 28 (17.72%) AWS
5 22 (13.92%) IaaS
6 17 (10.76%) PaaS
7 16 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (8.86%) SaaS
9 10 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.33%) GCP
10 7 (4.43%) Nutanix
11 6 (3.80%) OneDrive
12 5 (3.16%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.27%) Azure Storage
14 1 (0.63%) Azure Stack
14 1 (0.63%) GitHub
14 1 (0.63%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 59 (37.34%) Firewall
2 48 (30.38%) VPN
3 46 (29.11%) DNS
4 34 (21.52%) LAN
5 33 (20.89%) DHCP
6 28 (17.72%) WAN
7 25 (15.82%) Remote Desktop
8 21 (13.29%) Internet
8 21 (13.29%) TCP/IP
9 20 (12.66%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (12.03%) MPLS
10 19 (12.03%) VLAN
11 18 (11.39%) SNMP
12 14 (8.86%) NGFW
13 11 (6.96%) HTTP
14 10 (6.33%) SMTP
14 10 (6.33%) tcpdump
14 10 (6.33%) WLAN
15 9 (5.70%) SAN
16 8 (5.06%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.49%) MySQL
2 10 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (6.33%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.70%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.53%) DB2
6 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (10.76%) JIRA
2 10 (6.33%) Jenkins
General
1 79 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.49%) Telecoms
4 14 (8.86%) Finance
5 8 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.53%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (31.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 48 (30.38%) Senior
3 33 (20.89%) Support Engineer
4 24 (15.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (13.29%) Architect
5 21 (13.29%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (13.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 19 (12.03%) Project Manager
7 17 (10.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 17 (10.76%) IT Engineer
8 16 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (10.13%) Lead
9 14 (8.86%) Citrix Architect
9 14 (8.86%) Cloud Architect
9 14 (8.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 14 (8.86%) DevOps Architect
9 14 (8.86%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (8.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.59%) Data Centre Project Manager
10 12 (7.59%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.19%) YAML
2 19 (12.03%) JSON
3 16 (10.13%) ARM Templates
4 10 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.53%) RESTful
5 4 (2.53%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (2.53%) XML
6 2 (1.27%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.27%) ADO
6 2 (1.27%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (27.22%) Public Cloud
2 35 (22.15%) Clustering
3 30 (18.99%) Data Centre
4 18 (11.39%) Private Cloud
5 15 (9.49%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (8.23%) PKI
7 8 (5.06%) EFT
8 7 (4.43%) Management Information System
8 7 (4.43%) Replication
9 6 (3.80%) iPad
10 5 (3.16%) Driving Licence
10 5 (3.16%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.90%) Cloud Native
12 2 (1.27%) NHS
12 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
13 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.63%) IoT
13 1 (0.63%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 99 (62.66%) Windows
2 84 (53.16%) Windows Server
3 33 (20.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 28 (17.72%) Linux
5 18 (11.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (11.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (4.43%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (29.75%) Agile
3 34 (21.52%) DevOps
4 33 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (18.35%) CI/CD
7 27 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (14.56%) Project Management
9 19 (12.03%) PRINCE2
10 18 (11.39%) High Availability
10 18 (11.39%) Resource Management
11 17 (10.76%) ITIL
12 16 (10.13%) Backlog Management
12 16 (10.13%) Information Security
12 16 (10.13%) Network Virtualisation
12 16 (10.13%) Performance Management
12 16 (10.13%) Systems Engineering
13 15 (9.49%) Migration
14 14 (8.86%) Load Balancing
14 14 (8.86%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 68 (43.04%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.13%) Python
3 14 (8.86%) Perl
4 10 (6.33%) ActionScript
4 10 (6.33%) Bash
5 9 (5.70%) VB
6 4 (2.53%) Lua
6 4 (2.53%) Ruby
6 4 (2.53%) Tcl
7 2 (1.27%) Java
8 1 (0.63%) C
8 1 (0.63%) Go
8 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.03%) Degree
2 16 (10.13%) APMP
3 14 (8.86%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.16%) HND
6 4 (2.53%) CCNA
6 4 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.53%) RHCA
6 4 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.27%) HNC
8 2 (1.27%) MCSE
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.63%) MCP
9 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) SLA
2 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.27%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.27%) PMO
System Software
1 98 (62.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 94 (59.49%) Active Directory
3 41 (25.95%) Hyper-V
4 34 (21.52%) vSphere
5 20 (12.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (10.76%) Docker
7 9 (5.70%) OpenSSH
7 9 (5.70%) XenApp
8 8 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.90%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.63%) Firmware
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (45.57%) vCenter Server
2 27 (17.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (15.82%) Terraform
4 24 (15.19%) WSUS
5 21 (13.29%) SCCM
6 20 (12.66%) Ansible
6 20 (12.66%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (10.13%) Microsoft Clustering
8 15 (9.49%) Nagios
9 14 (8.86%) Puppet
10 12 (7.59%) Grafana
11 11 (6.96%) PowerCLI
12 10 (6.33%) Graphite
12 10 (6.33%) HAProxy
13 9 (5.70%) IBM BigFix
14 7 (4.43%) Kubernetes
15 6 (3.80%) vRealize
16 5 (3.16%) EMC NetWorker
17 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 4 (2.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 139 (87.97%) VMware
2 62 (39.24%) Microsoft
3 53 (33.54%) Cisco
4 51 (32.28%) Citrix
5 22 (13.92%) ServiceNow
6 19 (12.03%) Ruckus Wireless
6 19 (12.03%) Veeam
7 18 (11.39%) Commvault
7 18 (11.39%) Sun
8 13 (8.23%) IBM
9 11 (6.96%) Meraki
10 10 (6.33%) Red Hat
10 10 (6.33%) SolarWinds
11 9 (5.70%) Aruba
11 9 (5.70%) Juniper
12 8 (5.06%) Globalscape
13 7 (4.43%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (4.43%) HP
14 6 (3.80%) Dell
15 5 (3.16%) EMC