VMware ESXi Job Trends in Yorkshire

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring VMware ESXi skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 132 175
Rank change year-on-year -42 +43 +106
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 5 8 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.11% 0.35% 0.73%
As % of the System Software category 1.37% 2.89% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 29
10th Percentile - £46,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £55,000 £82,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - - £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +6.00%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

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 in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 365 277 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.03% 12.01% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 263 224 614
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -9.19%
75th Percentile £61,250 £64,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,528 £67,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMware ESXi relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

VMware ESXi job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMware ESXi.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
South Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
VMware ESXi
England

VMware ESXi
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 4 (80.00%) VoIP
1 4 (80.00%) VPLS
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) IT Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 4 (80.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (80.00%) Process Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (80.00%) Security Patching
1 4 (80.00%) Service Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) SIEM
1 4 (80.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNA
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (80.00%) WSUS
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Splunk