VMware ESXi Jobs

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 577 730
Rank change year-on-year +68 +153 -183
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 453 378 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 3.73% 2.65% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 301 309 424
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.12% -5.56% +5.88%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,139 14,261 31,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.05% 15.42% 18.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,285 9,600 15,562
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

VMware ESXi
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi.

Salary trend for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMware ESXi over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VMware ESXi in the UK

VMware ESXi
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
England +98 437 £52,500 +9.38% 84
UK excluding London -26 284 £48,500 +14.12% 63
London +154 169 £65,000 +13.04% 21
Work from Home +50 141 £52,500 +5.00% 25
North of England +12 69 £50,000 +6.38% 12
South West +2 66 £50,000 +17.65% 16
South East -54 53 £48,500 +15.48% 22
West Midlands +23 49 £36,500 -2.67% 8
Midlands -18 49 £36,500 -23.16% 8
Yorkshire +78 48 £47,500 +26.67% 9
East of England -32 32 £32,500 -30.11% 6
North West -37 16 £60,000 +27.66% 3
Scotland -62 10 £57,500 +1.77% 1
North East -14 5 £29,500 -
Wales - 4 £40,000 - 1
Northern Ireland +18 2 £34,628 -28.97%

VMware ESXi
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 145 (32.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (10.60%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.77%) IIS
3 8 (1.77%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.55%) Confluence
5 2 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 224 (49.45%) Microsoft 365
2 192 (42.38%) Azure
3 110 (24.28%) Entra ID
4 40 (8.83%) AWS
5 31 (6.84%) OneDrive
6 14 (3.09%) GCP
7 13 (2.87%) IaaS
8 12 (2.65%) Nutanix
8 12 (2.65%) OCI
9 10 (2.21%) OpenShift
9 10 (2.21%) SaaS
10 9 (1.99%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.99%) PaaS
11 8 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.10%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.66%) Azure Storage
13 3 (0.66%) GitHub
13 3 (0.66%) Mimecast
14 2 (0.44%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 161 (35.54%) Firewall
2 112 (24.72%) DNS
3 100 (22.08%) WAN
4 89 (19.65%) DHCP
5 75 (16.56%) Wireless
6 73 (16.11%) SAN
7 63 (13.91%) VPN
8 62 (13.69%) LAN
9 53 (11.70%) Cisco IOS
10 51 (11.26%) SD-WAN
11 50 (11.04%) WebEx
12 42 (9.27%) NAS
13 39 (8.61%) TCP/IP
14 34 (7.51%) Wi-Fi
15 32 (7.06%) Remote Desktop
15 32 (7.06%) VSAN
16 28 (6.18%) Internet
17 26 (5.74%) VLAN
18 20 (4.42%) MPLS
18 20 (4.42%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 27 (5.96%) MySQL
3 11 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.77%) DB2
5 8 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.55%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.66%) Redis
7 3 (0.66%) TimescaleDB
8 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.22%) Big Data
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 36 (7.95%) JIRA
2 16 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.55%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.10%) GitLab
General
1 183 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 44 (9.71%) Finance
3 34 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (5.30%) Telecoms
5 23 (5.08%) Law
6 20 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 18 (3.97%) Legal
8 17 (3.75%) Aerospace
9 12 (2.65%) Retail
10 11 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.10%) Games
15 3 (0.66%) Banking
15 3 (0.66%) Local Government
15 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.44%) Electronics
16 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 130 (28.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (18.76%) IT Support
3 78 (17.22%) Support Engineer
4 56 (12.36%) Senior
5 50 (11.04%) IT Support Specialist
5 50 (11.04%) Support Specialist
6 46 (10.15%) IT Engineer
7 41 (9.05%) Infrastructure Support
8 34 (7.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (7.28%) Administrator
9 33 (7.28%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 28 (6.18%) Lead
10 28 (6.18%) VMware Engineer
11 27 (5.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 26 (5.74%) IT Support Engineer
12 26 (5.74%) Systems Engineer
12 26 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (4.42%) 3rd Line Support
13 20 (4.42%) Infrastructure Specialist
13 20 (4.42%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.87%) YAML
2 11 (2.43%) JSON
3 9 (1.99%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.77%) WebSphere MQ
5 7 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (1.55%) HTML
6 4 (0.88%) .NET
6 4 (0.88%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.88%) Laravel
6 4 (0.88%) Node.js
6 4 (0.88%) REST
6 4 (0.88%) RESTful
6 4 (0.88%) Vue
6 4 (0.88%) XML
7 3 (0.66%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (0.66%) CSS
7 3 (0.66%) Flask
7 3 (0.66%) jQuery
7 3 (0.66%) Plotly
8 2 (0.44%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 94 (20.75%) Data Centre
2 54 (11.92%) Replication
3 53 (11.70%) Clustering
4 51 (11.26%) Video Conferencing
5 50 (11.04%) Wiki
6 44 (9.71%) Public Cloud
7 38 (8.39%) PKI
8 23 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (3.97%) EMC VNX
10 14 (3.09%) Driving Licence
11 11 (2.43%) Private Cloud
12 10 (2.21%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.77%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.55%) iPad
14 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
15 6 (1.32%) AS400
15 6 (1.32%) EFT
16 4 (0.88%) Virtual Team
17 3 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 3 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 351 (77.48%) Windows
2 225 (49.67%) Windows Server
3 129 (28.48%) Linux
4 110 (24.28%) Windows 10
5 76 (16.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 53 (11.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 52 (11.48%) Android
7 52 (11.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 30 (6.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (3.53%) Mac OS
10 15 (3.31%) CentOS
11 12 (2.65%) Ubuntu
11 12 (2.65%) Windows XP
12 10 (2.21%) Unix
13 7 (1.55%) Rocky
14 3 (0.66%) VMS
14 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.44%) Debian
15 2 (0.44%) Solaris
15 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (30.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 95 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (17.88%) Business Continuity
4 64 (14.13%) ITIL
5 61 (13.47%) BCP
6 60 (13.25%) Business Continuity Planning
6 60 (13.25%) Computer Science
7 54 (11.92%) Project Management
8 53 (11.70%) Mobile Device Management
9 51 (11.26%) Mentoring
10 50 (11.04%) Application Virtualisation
10 50 (11.04%) Contract Negotiation
11 46 (10.15%) Agile
12 44 (9.71%) High Availability
13 40 (8.83%) Migration
14 37 (8.17%) Disaster Recovery
15 36 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (7.28%) Customer Service
17 32 (7.06%) Performance Tuning
18 31 (6.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 110 (24.28%) PowerShell
2 25 (5.52%) SQL
3 23 (5.08%) Python
4 21 (4.64%) Bash
5 15 (3.31%) ActionScript
6 14 (3.09%) VB
7 12 (2.65%) Java
8 11 (2.43%) Perl
9 10 (2.21%) RPG
10 9 (1.99%) C#
11 8 (1.77%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.10%) C++
13 4 (0.88%) C
13 4 (0.88%) Lua
13 4 (0.88%) PHP
13 4 (0.88%) Ruby
13 4 (0.88%) Tcl
13 4 (0.88%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.22%) Go
14 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 113 (24.94%) Degree
2 81 (17.88%) Security Cleared
3 58 (12.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (11.70%) Master's Degree
5 43 (9.49%) SC Cleared
6 35 (7.73%) DV Cleared
7 34 (7.51%) CCNA
7 34 (7.51%) Cisco Certification
8 26 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (4.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (3.97%) CCNP
11 16 (3.53%) APMP
12 15 (3.31%) MCSE
13 9 (1.99%) Azure Certification
14 8 (1.77%) A+ Certification
14 8 (1.77%) MCSA
15 5 (1.10%) HND
15 5 (1.10%) RHCA
15 5 (1.10%) RHCE
15 5 (1.10%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.97%) SLA
2 7 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.32%) GDPR
3 6 (1.32%) PMO
4 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.44%) NCSC
4 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 312 (68.87%) Active Directory
2 242 (53.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (23.62%) Hyper-V
4 82 (18.10%) vSphere
5 65 (14.35%) XenApp
6 57 (12.58%) XenDesktop
7 50 (11.04%) Microsoft App-V
8 25 (5.52%) Docker
9 20 (4.42%) VMware NSX
10 19 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
11 18 (3.97%) Firmware
12 16 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
13 14 (3.09%) OpenSSH
14 13 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (1.32%) VMware Server
16 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.88%) KVM
18 2 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 2 (0.44%) pfSense
18 2 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 165 (36.42%) vCenter Server
2 110 (24.28%) SCCM
3 65 (14.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (11.04%) AirWatch
5 44 (9.71%) WSUS
6 35 (7.73%) SCOM
7 31 (6.84%) Ansible
8 30 (6.62%) EMC NetWorker
9 27 (5.96%) Nagios
10 26 (5.74%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (4.64%) Terraform
12 20 (4.42%) Microsoft Clustering
13 19 (4.19%) Puppet
14 18 (3.97%) PowerCLI
15 17 (3.75%) Kubernetes
16 15 (3.31%) Failover Clustering
17 14 (3.09%) IBM BigFix
18 13 (2.87%) NetBackup
19 12 (2.65%) vRealize
20 11 (2.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 372 (82.12%) VMware
2 217 (47.90%) Microsoft
3 148 (32.67%) Cisco
4 119 (26.27%) Citrix
5 112 (24.72%) Veeam
6 39 (8.61%) Dell
7 33 (7.28%) NetApp
8 32 (7.06%) EMC
8 32 (7.06%) HP
8 32 (7.06%) SolarWinds
9 31 (6.84%) IBM
10 29 (6.40%) ServiceNow
11 27 (5.96%) Commvault
12 25 (5.52%) Juniper
13 24 (5.30%) Red Hat
14 23 (5.08%) Oracle
15 21 (4.64%) Extreme Networks
15 21 (4.64%) Palo Alto
16 19 (4.19%) 3PAR
16 19 (4.19%) Sun