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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 514 654
Rank change year-on-year +67 +140 -148
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 146 126 239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 3.42% 2.31% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 115 108 196
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £31,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £36,356 £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 £81,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £67,500
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 4,268 5,461 14,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.10% 14.38% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,264 4,260 7,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,699 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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 8 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 (44.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (18.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.74%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.05%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 86 (58.90%) Azure
2 70 (47.95%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (30.14%) Entra ID
4 21 (14.38%) AWS
5 11 (7.53%) IaaS
6 10 (6.85%) SaaS
7 9 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (5.48%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.48%) GCP
8 8 (5.48%) PaaS
9 7 (4.79%) Nutanix
10 5 (3.42%) OneDrive
10 5 (3.42%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.37%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.37%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.68%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.68%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 56 (38.36%) Firewall
2 41 (28.08%) DNS
3 40 (27.40%) VPN
4 31 (21.23%) LAN
5 30 (20.55%) DHCP
6 25 (17.12%) WAN
7 23 (15.75%) Internet
8 22 (15.07%) Remote Desktop
9 20 (13.70%) TCP/IP
10 17 (11.64%) VLAN
10 17 (11.64%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (10.96%) MPLS
12 14 (9.59%) SNMP
13 12 (8.22%) SAN
14 10 (6.85%) WLAN
15 9 (6.16%) HTTP
16 8 (5.48%) SMTP
16 8 (5.48%) tcpdump
17 7 (4.79%) NGFW
17 7 (4.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.90%) MySQL
2 11 (7.53%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (5.48%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.74%) DB2
5 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.37%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.37%) Redis
5 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.37%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (11.64%) JIRA
2 8 (5.48%) Jenkins
General
1 73 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.38%) Finance
3 18 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.59%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.74%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.05%) Law
8 2 (1.37%) Legal
8 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 52 (35.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (29.45%) Senior
3 36 (24.66%) Support Engineer
4 24 (16.44%) Infrastructure Support
4 24 (16.44%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 24 (16.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (12.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 18 (12.33%) IT Engineer
6 16 (10.96%) Project Manager
7 15 (10.27%) Lead
7 15 (10.27%) VMware Engineer
7 15 (10.27%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (9.59%) VMware Support Engineer
9 12 (8.22%) 3rd Line Support
9 12 (8.22%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 12 (8.22%) Data Centre Manager
9 12 (8.22%) Data Centre Project Manager
9 12 (8.22%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (8.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.27%) YAML
2 12 (8.22%) JSON
3 9 (6.16%) ARM Templates
4 8 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.74%) RESTful
5 4 (2.74%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (2.74%) XML
6 2 (1.37%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.37%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.37%) ADO
6 2 (1.37%) CSS
6 2 (1.37%) Flask
6 2 (1.37%) HTML
6 2 (1.37%) jQuery
6 2 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.37%) Plotly
7 1 (0.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 38 (26.03%) Clustering
2 34 (23.29%) Public Cloud
3 28 (19.18%) Data Centre
4 17 (11.64%) PKI
5 15 (10.27%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (7.53%) Private Cloud
7 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.79%) Replication
8 6 (4.11%) EFT
8 6 (4.11%) iPad
9 5 (3.42%) Driving Licence
9 5 (3.42%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.37%) NHS
10 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.68%) IoT
11 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (66.44%) Windows
2 82 (56.16%) Windows Server
3 34 (23.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 30 (20.55%) Linux
5 23 (15.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (15.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (6.16%) Windows 10
8 6 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.68%) Unix
10 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (35.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (21.92%) Agile
3 31 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (16.44%) DevOps
6 20 (13.70%) Project Management
7 18 (12.33%) Resource Management
8 17 (11.64%) CI/CD
8 17 (11.64%) High Availability
8 17 (11.64%) Systems Engineering
9 16 (10.96%) Backlog Management
9 16 (10.96%) Information Security
9 16 (10.96%) ITIL
9 16 (10.96%) Performance Management
9 16 (10.96%) PRINCE2
10 15 (10.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (9.59%) Load Balancing
12 13 (8.90%) Customer Requirements
12 13 (8.90%) Problem Management
13 11 (7.53%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (40.41%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.96%) Python
3 14 (9.59%) ActionScript
4 13 (8.90%) VB
5 12 (8.22%) Perl
6 8 (5.48%) Bash
7 4 (2.74%) Java
7 4 (2.74%) Lua
7 4 (2.74%) Ruby
7 4 (2.74%) Tcl
8 3 (2.05%) C
8 3 (2.05%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.37%) C#
9 2 (1.37%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (16.44%) Degree
2 16 (10.96%) APMP
3 9 (6.16%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (4.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (3.42%) CCNA
5 5 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (3.42%) HND
5 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.74%) MCSE
6 4 (2.74%) RHCA
6 4 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.37%) HNC
8 2 (1.37%) MCSA
9 1 (0.68%) CCA
9 1 (0.68%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.68%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) SLA
2 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.37%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.37%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (63.01%) Active Directory
2 87 (59.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (28.08%) Hyper-V
4 34 (23.29%) vSphere
5 14 (9.59%) Docker
6 13 (8.90%) OpenSSH
6 13 (8.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (8.90%) XenApp
7 11 (7.53%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.74%) XenDesktop
9 2 (1.37%) KVM
9 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (1.37%) NFS
9 2 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.68%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 26 (17.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (14.38%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (13.01%) WSUS
5 18 (12.33%) Ansible
5 18 (12.33%) SCCM
6 16 (10.96%) Microsoft Clustering
6 16 (10.96%) Terraform
7 15 (10.27%) PowerCLI
8 13 (8.90%) IBM BigFix
8 13 (8.90%) Nagios
9 12 (8.22%) Puppet
10 10 (6.85%) HAProxy
11 9 (6.16%) Grafana
12 8 (5.48%) Graphite
13 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
13 6 (4.11%) vRealize
14 5 (3.42%) EMC NetWorker
15 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 4 (2.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 127 (86.99%) VMware
2 60 (41.10%) Microsoft
3 50 (34.25%) Cisco
4 48 (32.88%) Citrix
5 23 (15.75%) ServiceNow
6 21 (14.38%) Veeam
7 18 (12.33%) Commvault
7 18 (12.33%) Sun
8 17 (11.64%) IBM
9 16 (10.96%) Ruckus Wireless
10 11 (7.53%) Meraki
10 11 (7.53%) Red Hat
11 9 (6.16%) Aruba
11 9 (6.16%) Juniper
11 9 (6.16%) SolarWinds
12 7 (4.79%) Extreme Networks
13 6 (4.11%) Dell
13 6 (4.11%) Globalscape
13 6 (4.11%) HP
14 5 (3.42%) EMC