VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 59 54
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 28 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.59% 0.77% 1.74%
As % of the System Software category 21.54% 9.09% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £608 - £310
25th Percentile £608 £158 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £165 £525
Median % change year-on-year +268.67% -68.57% +18.78%
75th Percentile £608 £179 £633
90th Percentile £609 £192 £744
West Midlands median daily rate £401 £551 £475
% change year-on-year -27.22% +16.00% +5.56%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 130 55 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.69% 8.42% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 47 57
10th Percentile £164 £158 £195
25th Percentile £360 £190 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £525
90th Percentile £624 £700 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £465 £425
% change year-on-year +12.90% +9.41% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.99%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year +211.64% -2.00% -16.38%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Birmingham

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 25 (89.29%) DNS
1 25 (89.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 25 (89.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 15 (53.57%) DMZ
3 14 (50.00%) Network Security
4 11 (39.29%) BIG-IP
4 11 (39.29%) HTTP
4 11 (39.29%) SSL
4 11 (39.29%) TCP/IP
4 11 (39.29%) Wireshark
5 3 (10.71%) Firewall
5 3 (10.71%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Fiddler
General
1 25 (89.29%) Banking
1 25 (89.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) IP Network Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Network Engineer
2 11 (39.29%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (89.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.14%) SCADA
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Load Balancing
2 14 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 14 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 11 (39.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 11 (39.29%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 3 (10.71%) Network Packet Capture
4 3 (10.71%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (10.71%) Password Management
5 1 (3.57%) Migration
5 1 (3.57%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Firmware
2 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (89.29%) F5
3 11 (39.29%) Blue Coat
3 11 (39.29%) McAfee
3 11 (39.29%) NetApp
4 3 (10.71%) Broadcom
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco