VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 464 624 704
Rank change year-on-year +160 +80 -208
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESXi 507 380 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 4.20% 2.45% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 331 310 422
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,950 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,642 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,875 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.00% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.78% - +7.14%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,077 15,532 28,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.19% 15.33% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,571 10,270 15,579
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +197 491 £52,500 +5.00% 76
UK excluding London +18 281 £48,500 +7.78% 56
London +205 222 £67,500 +17.39% 22
Work from Home +82 156 £54,000 +8.00% 67
North of England +58 68 £50,000 +6.38% 9
South West +21 64 £50,000 +25.00% 12
South East -24 59 £48,500 +14.12% 15
West Midlands +43 50 £36,500 -11.52% 10
Midlands +6 50 £36,500 -27.00% 11
Yorkshire +112 47 £47,500 +26.67% 4
East of England -8 28 £32,500 -35.00% 6
North West -10 17 £60,000 +26.98% 3
Scotland -61 7 £65,000 +15.04% 3
Wales - 4 £40,000 -
North East - 4 £29,500 - 2
Northern Ireland +27 2 £34,628 -27.10%

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
1 190 (37.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (9.86%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.96%) Confluence
4 9 (1.78%) IIS
5 8 (1.58%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 273 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 210 (41.42%) Azure
3 113 (22.29%) Entra ID
4 41 (8.09%) AWS
5 33 (6.51%) OneDrive
6 24 (4.73%) IaaS
7 17 (3.35%) PaaS
8 16 (3.16%) GCP
9 15 (2.96%) Nutanix
10 14 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.76%) SaaS
11 12 (2.37%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.37%) OCI
12 9 (1.78%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.18%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (0.79%) Azure Storage
15 3 (0.59%) GitHub
15 3 (0.59%) Mimecast
16 2 (0.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 170 (33.53%) Firewall
2 143 (28.21%) WAN
3 115 (22.68%) Wireless
4 114 (22.49%) DNS
5 95 (18.74%) SD-WAN
6 93 (18.34%) Cisco IOS
7 91 (17.95%) WebEx
8 88 (17.36%) DHCP
9 71 (14.00%) SAN
10 69 (13.61%) VPN
11 60 (11.83%) LAN
12 39 (7.69%) NAS
12 39 (7.69%) TCP/IP
13 33 (6.51%) Remote Desktop
14 32 (6.31%) VSAN
14 32 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
15 31 (6.11%) PBX
16 27 (5.33%) Internet
16 27 (5.33%) VLAN
17 21 (4.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.30%) MySQL
2 35 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.97%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.58%) DB2
8 2 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.39%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.20%) Big Data
9 1 (0.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (8.68%) JIRA
2 27 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.96%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.99%) GitLab
General
1 236 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (6.90%) Finance
4 28 (5.52%) Telecoms
5 23 (4.54%) Law
6 19 (3.75%) Legal
7 18 (3.55%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.35%) Aerospace
9 12 (2.37%) Retail
10 11 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.99%) Games
15 4 (0.79%) Banking
16 3 (0.59%) Local Government
16 3 (0.59%) Military
16 3 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.39%) Electronics
17 2 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 127 (25.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 127 (25.05%) IT Support
2 92 (18.15%) Support Engineer
3 91 (17.95%) IT Support Specialist
3 91 (17.95%) Support Specialist
4 62 (12.23%) Senior
5 48 (9.47%) IT Engineer
6 36 (7.10%) Infrastructure Support
7 34 (6.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (6.51%) Systems Engineer
9 31 (6.11%) Administrator
9 31 (6.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 29 (5.72%) IT Support Engineer
11 28 (5.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 26 (5.13%) Lead
13 24 (4.73%) Architect
14 22 (4.34%) 2nd Line Support
14 22 (4.34%) VMware Engineer
15 21 (4.14%) 3rd Line Support
15 21 (4.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.34%) YAML
2 17 (3.35%) JSON
3 16 (3.16%) ARM Templates
4 10 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (1.58%) WebSphere MQ
6 4 (0.79%) .NET
6 4 (0.79%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.79%) HTML
6 4 (0.79%) Laravel
6 4 (0.79%) Node.js
6 4 (0.79%) REST
6 4 (0.79%) RESTful
6 4 (0.79%) Vue
6 4 (0.79%) XML
7 2 (0.39%) ADO
7 2 (0.39%) LAMP
7 2 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.39%) V-Ray
8 1 (0.20%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 92 (18.15%) Video Conferencing
2 91 (17.95%) Wiki
3 90 (17.75%) Data Centre
4 55 (10.85%) Replication
5 54 (10.65%) Public Cloud
6 51 (10.06%) Clustering
7 33 (6.51%) PKI
8 20 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (3.35%) EMC VNX
9 17 (3.35%) Private Cloud
10 15 (2.96%) Driving Licence
11 11 (2.17%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.58%) EFT
12 8 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.58%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.18%) AS400
13 6 (1.18%) iPad
14 5 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.59%) Cloud Native
15 3 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 399 (78.70%) Windows
2 224 (44.18%) Windows Server
3 151 (29.78%) Windows 10
4 133 (26.23%) Linux
5 92 (18.15%) Android
6 69 (13.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 44 (8.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 43 (8.48%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (4.54%) Mac OS
11 14 (2.76%) CentOS
12 12 (2.37%) Windows XP
13 7 (1.38%) Ubuntu
14 6 (1.18%) Unix
15 4 (0.79%) Rocky
15 4 (0.79%) VMS
16 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
17 1 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
17 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (27.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 123 (24.26%) Business Continuity
3 101 (19.92%) BCP
3 101 (19.92%) Business Continuity Planning
3 101 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (19.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 97 (19.13%) Computer Science
6 91 (17.95%) Application Virtualisation
6 91 (17.95%) Contract Negotiation
7 61 (12.03%) Project Management
8 58 (11.44%) ITIL
9 57 (11.24%) Mentoring
10 54 (10.65%) Agile
11 47 (9.27%) Migration
12 45 (8.88%) CI/CD
13 44 (8.68%) High Availability
14 43 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (8.28%) DevOps
16 39 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
16 39 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 125 (24.65%) PowerShell
2 30 (5.92%) Bash
3 22 (4.34%) Python
3 22 (4.34%) SQL
4 14 (2.76%) Perl
5 11 (2.17%) ActionScript
6 10 (1.97%) RPG
6 10 (1.97%) VB
7 8 (1.58%) Java
8 6 (1.18%) C#
9 5 (0.99%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.79%) Lua
10 4 (0.79%) PHP
10 4 (0.79%) Ruby
10 4 (0.79%) Tcl
10 4 (0.79%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) C
12 1 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 152 (29.98%) Degree
2 95 (18.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 94 (18.54%) Master's Degree
4 77 (15.19%) Security Cleared
5 47 (9.27%) SC Cleared
6 44 (8.68%) CCNA
6 44 (8.68%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (6.11%) DV Cleared
8 25 (4.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 24 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (3.55%) CCNP
11 16 (3.16%) APMP
11 16 (3.16%) MCSE
12 8 (1.58%) A+ Certification
12 8 (1.58%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.99%) HND
13 5 (0.99%) MCSA
13 5 (0.99%) RHCA
13 5 (0.99%) RHCE
13 5 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.76%) SLA
2 8 (1.58%) PMO
3 6 (1.18%) GDPR
3 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.39%) NCSC
5 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 360 (71.01%) Active Directory
2 254 (50.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (20.12%) XenApp
4 99 (19.53%) Hyper-V
4 99 (19.53%) XenDesktop
5 91 (17.95%) Microsoft App-V
6 79 (15.58%) vSphere
7 28 (5.52%) Docker
8 24 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 19 (3.75%) Firmware
10 17 (3.35%) VMware NSX
11 15 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
12 13 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.97%) OpenSSH
14 7 (1.38%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 2 (0.39%) pfSense
16 2 (0.39%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 168 (33.14%) vCenter Server
2 154 (30.37%) SCCM
3 91 (17.95%) AirWatch
4 75 (14.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 44 (8.68%) WSUS
6 30 (5.92%) SCOM
7 29 (5.72%) Ansible
7 29 (5.72%) EMC NetWorker
8 28 (5.52%) Nagios
8 28 (5.52%) Terraform
9 27 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (3.94%) Microsoft Clustering
10 20 (3.94%) Puppet
11 16 (3.16%) vRealize
12 15 (2.96%) Failover Clustering
12 15 (2.96%) PowerCLI
13 13 (2.56%) Kubernetes
13 13 (2.56%) NetBackup
14 12 (2.37%) Grafana
15 11 (2.17%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 389 (76.73%) VMware
2 256 (50.49%) Microsoft
3 193 (38.07%) Cisco
4 172 (33.93%) Citrix
5 110 (21.70%) Veeam
6 34 (6.71%) Dell
7 33 (6.51%) NetApp
7 33 (6.51%) SolarWinds
8 31 (6.11%) HP
9 30 (5.92%) Palo Alto
10 29 (5.72%) Commvault
10 29 (5.72%) EMC
11 27 (5.33%) ServiceNow
12 25 (4.93%) IBM
13 23 (4.54%) Juniper
13 23 (4.54%) Red Hat
14 22 (4.34%) 3PAR
15 21 (4.14%) Extreme Networks
15 21 (4.14%) Oracle
16 20 (3.94%) Sun