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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 523 657
Rank change year-on-year +87 +134 -174
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 154 140 208
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 3.63% 2.32% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 124 118 166
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,775 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +5.26% -7.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,375 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.33% +3.95% +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 4,245 6,039 13,279
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.61% 14.74% 19.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,381 4,484 7,675
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £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 £71,250 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 14 May 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 68 (44.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.60%) IIS
3 4 (2.60%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 98 (63.64%) Azure
2 77 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 27 (17.53%) AWS
5 19 (12.34%) IaaS
6 15 (9.74%) PaaS
7 13 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.44%) SaaS
8 10 (6.49%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.49%) GCP
9 7 (4.55%) Nutanix
10 5 (3.25%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.25%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.30%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.30%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 58 (37.66%) Firewall
2 45 (29.22%) DNS
3 44 (28.57%) VPN
4 32 (20.78%) LAN
5 31 (20.13%) DHCP
6 26 (16.88%) WAN
7 23 (14.94%) Remote Desktop
8 21 (13.64%) Internet
8 21 (13.64%) TCP/IP
9 18 (11.69%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (11.04%) MPLS
10 17 (11.04%) SNMP
10 17 (11.04%) VLAN
11 11 (7.14%) NGFW
12 10 (6.49%) HTTP
12 10 (6.49%) SAN
12 10 (6.49%) tcpdump
12 10 (6.49%) WLAN
13 9 (5.84%) SMTP
14 7 (4.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.74%) MySQL
2 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.60%) DB2
6 2 (1.30%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (11.04%) JIRA
2 10 (6.49%) Jenkins
General
1 77 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.39%) Finance
4 15 (9.74%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.60%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.60%) Law
7 2 (1.30%) Legal
7 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Back Office
8 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (32.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 47 (30.52%) Senior
3 33 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 24 (15.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 18 (11.69%) Architect
7 17 (11.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 17 (11.04%) IT Engineer
7 17 (11.04%) Project Manager
8 16 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (10.39%) Lead
9 14 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.79%) 3rd Line Support
10 12 (7.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 12 (7.79%) Data Centre Manager
10 12 (7.79%) Data Centre Project Manager
10 12 (7.79%) IT Support
11 11 (7.14%) Citrix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.64%) YAML
2 16 (10.39%) JSON
3 13 (8.44%) ARM Templates
4 10 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.60%) RESTful
5 4 (2.60%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (2.60%) XML
6 2 (1.30%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.30%) ADO
6 2 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.62%) Public Cloud
2 36 (23.38%) Clustering
3 29 (18.83%) Data Centre
4 15 (9.74%) Private Cloud
4 15 (9.74%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (9.09%) PKI
6 7 (4.55%) EFT
6 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.55%) Replication
7 6 (3.90%) iPad
8 5 (3.25%) Driving Licence
8 5 (3.25%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.95%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.30%) NHS
10 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.65%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 98 (63.64%) Windows
2 82 (53.25%) Windows Server
3 32 (20.78%) Windows Server 2012
4 30 (19.48%) Linux
5 20 (12.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (12.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (5.84%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (32.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (27.27%) Agile
3 33 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (20.78%) DevOps
5 31 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (16.88%) CI/CD
7 24 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (13.64%) Project Management
9 19 (12.34%) High Availability
10 18 (11.69%) Resource Management
11 17 (11.04%) ITIL
11 17 (11.04%) PRINCE2
11 17 (11.04%) Systems Engineering
12 16 (10.39%) Backlog Management
12 16 (10.39%) Information Security
12 16 (10.39%) Performance Management
13 15 (9.74%) Load Balancing
14 14 (9.09%) Migration
15 13 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
15 13 (8.44%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.56%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.39%) Python
3 14 (9.09%) Perl
4 10 (6.49%) ActionScript
4 10 (6.49%) Bash
5 9 (5.84%) VB
6 4 (2.60%) Lua
6 4 (2.60%) Ruby
6 4 (2.60%) Tcl
7 2 (1.30%) Java
7 2 (1.30%) SQL
8 1 (0.65%) C
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (12.99%) Degree
2 16 (10.39%) APMP
3 14 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.25%) HND
5 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (2.60%) CCNA
6 4 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.60%) MCSE
6 4 (2.60%) RHCA
6 4 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.30%) HNC
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Architect
9 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) SLA
2 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.30%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.30%) PMO
4 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 94 (61.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 93 (60.39%) Active Directory
3 39 (25.32%) Hyper-V
4 33 (21.43%) vSphere
5 17 (11.04%) Docker
5 17 (11.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (5.84%) OpenSSH
6 9 (5.84%) XenApp
7 8 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.60%) XenDesktop
9 2 (1.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.65%) NFS
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 74 (48.05%) vCenter Server
2 26 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (14.29%) Terraform
3 22 (14.29%) WSUS
4 21 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (12.99%) Ansible
5 20 (12.99%) SCCM
6 16 (10.39%) Microsoft Clustering
7 15 (9.74%) Nagios
8 14 (9.09%) Puppet
9 12 (7.79%) Grafana
10 11 (7.14%) HAProxy
10 11 (7.14%) PowerCLI
11 10 (6.49%) Graphite
12 9 (5.84%) IBM BigFix
13 7 (4.55%) Kubernetes
14 6 (3.90%) vRealize
15 5 (3.25%) EMC NetWorker
16 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 4 (2.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 135 (87.66%) VMware
2 60 (38.96%) Microsoft
3 52 (33.77%) Cisco
4 48 (31.17%) Citrix
5 23 (14.94%) ServiceNow
6 20 (12.99%) Veeam
7 18 (11.69%) Commvault
7 18 (11.69%) Sun
8 17 (11.04%) Ruckus Wireless
9 13 (8.44%) IBM
10 11 (7.14%) Meraki
10 11 (7.14%) Red Hat
11 10 (6.49%) SolarWinds
12 9 (5.84%) Aruba
12 9 (5.84%) Juniper
13 7 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (4.55%) Globalscape
13 7 (4.55%) HP
14 6 (3.90%) Dell
15 5 (3.25%) EMC