VMware ESXi Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 453 489
Rank change year-on-year +24 +36 +144
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 40 136 127
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 1.46% 3.29% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 40 107 109
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,438 £47,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,313 £73,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,875 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +9.38% +1.05%

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 2,740 4,129 5,160
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.64% 11.97% 14.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,347 3,128 4,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £40,988 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,100 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

VMware ESXi
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware ESXi trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

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 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) IIS
2 2 (5.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) IaaS
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (17.50%) AWS
4 6 (15.00%) Nutanix
5 5 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (12.50%) SaaS
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (10.00%) GCP
6 4 (10.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (40.00%) Firewall
2 8 (20.00%) DHCP
2 8 (20.00%) DNS
2 8 (20.00%) SAN
2 8 (20.00%) WAN
3 7 (17.50%) SD-WAN
3 7 (17.50%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (10.00%) VPN
6 2 (5.00%) LAN
6 2 (5.00%) NAS
6 2 (5.00%) SNMP
6 2 (5.00%) VLAN
7 1 (2.50%) Fast Ethernet
7 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.50%) MPLS
7 1 (2.50%) Network Security
7 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) MariaDB
2 4 (10.00%) MySQL
2 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (15.00%) Finance
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Games
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
2 6 (15.00%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (10.00%) Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) PowerShell Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) VMWare Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) SAML
2 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (7.50%) Middleware
2 3 (7.50%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Clustering
1 6 (15.00%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (12.50%) PKI
3 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) Replication
3 4 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (77.50%) Windows
2 26 (65.00%) Windows Server
3 20 (50.00%) Linux
4 13 (32.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (22.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (17.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (15.00%) CentOS
7 6 (15.00%) Ubuntu
8 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
10 2 (5.00%) Debian
10 2 (5.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (25.00%) High Availability
3 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 7 (17.50%) ITIL
4 7 (17.50%) Patch Management
5 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (15.00%) Virtual Environments
6 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (12.50%) Presales
6 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.00%) DevOps
7 4 (10.00%) Security Hardening
7 4 (10.00%) Security Patching
7 4 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) Bash
2 3 (7.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (12.50%) CCNA
2 5 (12.50%) CCNP
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) MCP
5 2 (5.00%) MCSA
5 2 (5.00%) MCSE
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 24 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (22.50%) vSphere
4 6 (15.00%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (12.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (12.50%) VMware NSX
6 4 (10.00%) Firmware
7 3 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (2.50%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 4 (10.00%) ZENworks
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Avamar
5 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.50%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.50%) Meraki
3 7 (17.50%) Veeam
4 5 (12.50%) Cisco
4 5 (12.50%) EMC
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle
5 4 (10.00%) TOWER Software
6 3 (7.50%) Dell
6 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (5.00%) arcserve
7 2 (5.00%) HP
7 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.50%) Aruba
8 1 (2.50%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.50%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (2.50%) Forcepoint
8 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.50%) Zscaler