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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 31 17 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.75% 2.75% 1.58%
As % of the System Software category 23.31% 27.42% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 9
10th Percentile £455 £158 -
25th Percentile £500 £200 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £689 £200
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +244.50% -55.56%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £538
90th Percentile £608 - £717
West Midlands median daily rate £340 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -45.60% +25.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.95
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £19.23

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 133 62 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.08% 10.03% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 51 56
10th Percentile £132 £158 £188
25th Percentile £360 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +14.20%
75th Percentile £549 £689 £500
90th Percentile £620 £700 £603
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £490 £413
% change year-on-year +4.80% +18.67% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.49
25th Percentile - - £15.40
Median hourly rate - - £17.27
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.33%
75th Percentile - - £18.79
90th Percentile - - £19.48
West Midlands median hourly rate - £18.13 £18.50
% change year-on-year - -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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Birmingham

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
2 2 (6.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (87.10%) DNS
2 25 (80.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 25 (80.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 14 (45.16%) BIG-IP
3 14 (45.16%) HTTP
3 14 (45.16%) SSL
3 14 (45.16%) TCP/IP
3 14 (45.16%) Wireshark
4 12 (38.71%) DMZ
5 11 (35.48%) Network Security
6 3 (9.68%) Firewall
6 3 (9.68%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Fiddler
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (80.65%) Banking
1 25 (80.65%) Investment Banking
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 14 (45.16%) IP Network Engineer
1 14 (45.16%) Network Engineer
1 14 (45.16%) Web Engineer
2 11 (35.48%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Architect
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (80.65%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) SCADA
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) Load Balancing
2 14 (45.16%) Data Loss Prevention
2 14 (45.16%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 11 (35.48%) Business Strategy
3 11 (35.48%) Design Patterns
4 4 (12.90%) Migration
4 4 (12.90%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (9.68%) High Availability
5 3 (9.68%) Network Packet Capture
5 3 (9.68%) Password Management
6 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.45%) Containerisation
6 2 (6.45%) Data Migration
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.45%) RBAC
7 1 (3.23%) Change Management
7 1 (3.23%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Firmware
2 5 (16.13%) VMware NSX
3 3 (9.68%) vSphere
4 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.23%) KVM
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) FortiGate
2 3 (9.68%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.45%) Argo
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 31 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (80.65%) F5
3 14 (45.16%) Blue Coat
3 14 (45.16%) McAfee
3 14 (45.16%) NetApp
4 3 (9.68%) Broadcom
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) Pure Storage
5 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk