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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 358 414
Rank change year-on-year -27 +56 +88
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 20 43 159
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 1.40% 2.17% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15 42 130
10th Percentile - £44,956 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,794 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +11.11% +7.46%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £89,250 £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 1,431 1,979 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.05% 14.90% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,554 3,567
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £72,433
90th Percentile £103,400 £113,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 19 April 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 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (30.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) DNS
2 10 (50.00%) DHCP
3 6 (30.00%) VPN
4 4 (20.00%) BGP
4 4 (20.00%) MPLS
4 4 (20.00%) SAN
4 4 (20.00%) WAN
5 2 (10.00%) Firewall
5 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (5.00%) VSAN
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) NOC Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Replication
2 4 (20.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Clustering
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (25.00%) Linux
4 4 (20.00%) Unix
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (20.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Storage Management
7 1 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (5.00%) Presales
7 1 (5.00%) Storage Virtualisation
7 1 (5.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
1 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) CCSE
3 1 (5.00%) CCSM
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (35.00%) vSphere
4 6 (30.00%) DFS Replication
5 4 (20.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.00%) KVM
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) vCenter Server
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (20.00%) SCCM
5 2 (10.00%) Terraform
6 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) 3PAR
3 4 (20.00%) NetApp
3 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (20.00%) Splunk
3 4 (20.00%) Veeam
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto