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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 509 660
Rank change year-on-year +60 +151 -153
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 145 129 230
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 3.40% 2.34% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 115 111 188
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,425
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,928 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.47%
75th Percentile £84,375 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £66,450
UK median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% +1.05% +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 4,262 5,512 14,406
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.27% 14.33% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,299 4,287 7,753
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,199 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

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 1 June 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 65 (44.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (18.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.76%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.07%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 87 (60.00%) Azure
2 71 (48.97%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (30.34%) Entra ID
4 21 (14.48%) AWS
5 12 (8.28%) IaaS
6 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.90%) SaaS
7 9 (6.21%) PaaS
8 8 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.52%) GCP
9 7 (4.83%) Nutanix
10 5 (3.45%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.45%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.38%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.38%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.69%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.69%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 56 (38.62%) Firewall
2 41 (28.28%) DNS
2 41 (28.28%) VPN
3 31 (21.38%) LAN
4 30 (20.69%) DHCP
5 25 (17.24%) WAN
6 22 (15.17%) Internet
6 22 (15.17%) Remote Desktop
7 20 (13.79%) TCP/IP
8 17 (11.72%) VLAN
8 17 (11.72%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (11.03%) MPLS
10 14 (9.66%) SNMP
11 12 (8.28%) SAN
12 10 (6.90%) WLAN
13 9 (6.21%) HTTP
14 8 (5.52%) NGFW
14 8 (5.52%) SMTP
14 8 (5.52%) tcpdump
15 7 (4.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.97%) MySQL
2 11 (7.59%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (5.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.76%) DB2
5 2 (1.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.69%) Redis
6 1 (0.69%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 17 (11.72%) JIRA
2 8 (5.52%) Jenkins
General
1 73 (50.34%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.79%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.76%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.07%) Law
8 2 (1.38%) Legal
8 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Advertising
9 1 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 51 (35.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (29.66%) Senior
3 35 (24.14%) Support Engineer
4 24 (16.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (15.86%) Infrastructure Support
5 23 (15.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 18 (12.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 18 (12.41%) IT Engineer
7 16 (11.03%) Project Manager
8 15 (10.34%) Lead
9 14 (9.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (9.66%) VMware Engineer
9 14 (9.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (8.97%) VMware Support Engineer
11 12 (8.28%) 3rd Line Support
11 12 (8.28%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 12 (8.28%) Architect
11 12 (8.28%) Data Centre Manager
11 12 (8.28%) Data Centre Project Manager
11 12 (8.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) YAML
2 13 (8.97%) JSON
3 10 (6.90%) ARM Templates
4 8 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.76%) RESTful
5 4 (2.76%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (2.76%) XML
6 2 (1.38%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.38%) ADO
6 2 (1.38%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.69%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.69%) CSS
7 1 (0.69%) Flask
7 1 (0.69%) HTML
7 1 (0.69%) jQuery
7 1 (0.69%) Middleware
7 1 (0.69%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 37 (25.52%) Clustering
2 35 (24.14%) Public Cloud
3 28 (19.31%) Data Centre
4 16 (11.03%) PKI
5 15 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (8.28%) Private Cloud
7 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.83%) Replication
8 6 (4.14%) EFT
8 6 (4.14%) iPad
9 5 (3.45%) Driving Licence
9 5 (3.45%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.38%) NHS
10 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.69%) IoT
11 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (66.21%) Windows
2 81 (55.86%) Windows Server
3 33 (22.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 29 (20.00%) Linux
5 23 (15.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (15.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (6.21%) Windows 10
8 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.69%) Unix
10 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (22.76%) Agile
3 30 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (17.24%) DevOps
6 20 (13.79%) Project Management
7 18 (12.41%) CI/CD
7 18 (12.41%) Resource Management
8 17 (11.72%) High Availability
8 17 (11.72%) Systems Engineering
9 16 (11.03%) Backlog Management
9 16 (11.03%) Information Security
9 16 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (11.03%) ITIL
9 16 (11.03%) Performance Management
9 16 (11.03%) PRINCE2
10 14 (9.66%) Load Balancing
11 12 (8.28%) Customer Requirements
11 12 (8.28%) Problem Management
12 11 (7.59%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (40.69%) PowerShell
2 15 (10.34%) Python
3 13 (8.97%) ActionScript
4 12 (8.28%) Perl
4 12 (8.28%) VB
5 8 (5.52%) Bash
6 4 (2.76%) Lua
6 4 (2.76%) Ruby
6 4 (2.76%) Tcl
7 3 (2.07%) Java
8 2 (1.38%) C
8 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.69%) C#
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Go
9 1 (0.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (15.17%) Degree
2 16 (11.03%) APMP
3 9 (6.21%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (3.45%) CCNA
5 5 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.45%) HND
5 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.76%) MCSE
6 4 (2.76%) RHCA
6 4 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.38%) HNC
7 2 (1.38%) MCSA
8 1 (0.69%) CCA
8 1 (0.69%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.28%) SLA
2 5 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.38%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.38%) PMO
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (62.76%) Active Directory
2 87 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (27.59%) Hyper-V
4 34 (23.45%) vSphere
5 14 (9.66%) Docker
5 14 (9.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (8.28%) OpenSSH
6 12 (8.28%) XenApp
7 10 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.76%) XenDesktop
9 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (1.38%) NFS
9 2 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.69%) Firmware
10 1 (0.69%) KVM
Systems Management
1 72 (49.66%) vCenter Server
2 26 (17.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (14.48%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (13.10%) WSUS
5 18 (12.41%) Ansible
5 18 (12.41%) SCCM
6 17 (11.72%) Terraform
7 16 (11.03%) Microsoft Clustering
8 14 (9.66%) PowerCLI
9 13 (8.97%) Nagios
10 12 (8.28%) IBM BigFix
10 12 (8.28%) Puppet
11 10 (6.90%) HAProxy
12 9 (6.21%) Grafana
13 8 (5.52%) Graphite
14 6 (4.14%) Kubernetes
14 6 (4.14%) vRealize
15 5 (3.45%) EMC NetWorker
16 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 4 (2.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 127 (87.59%) VMware
2 60 (41.38%) Microsoft
3 50 (34.48%) Cisco
4 48 (33.10%) Citrix
5 23 (15.86%) ServiceNow
6 21 (14.48%) Veeam
7 18 (12.41%) Commvault
7 18 (12.41%) Sun
8 16 (11.03%) IBM
8 16 (11.03%) Ruckus Wireless
9 11 (7.59%) Meraki
9 11 (7.59%) Red Hat
10 9 (6.21%) Aruba
10 9 (6.21%) Juniper
10 9 (6.21%) SolarWinds
11 7 (4.83%) Extreme Networks
12 6 (4.14%) Dell
12 6 (4.14%) Globalscape
12 6 (4.14%) HP
13 5 (3.45%) EMC